Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Activity Timeline

Completed a tool for viewing getting an overview of your change history:



In addition to the TaskPad, there is a Context View (filtered solution explorer), LaunchPad (a semi-cloud tag of changes in the method bodies) and of course the activity timeline.

The activity timeline has a draggable filter that updates the other views.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

TaskPad for Visual Studio

TaskPad is now usable in Visual Studio:

Friday, April 24, 2009

TaskPad

Sometimes you want something simple for tracking personal tasks for a project. In a recent survey I did, I found a lot of people (including myself) tended to just use notepad for this purpose.

Basically, I wanted the simplicity of using notepad, but with better task-aware support and formatting. For example, indenting task sub-items, marking items done, or collapsing sub-items. Here is the result of a recent prototype for a text-only task manager.



Try it out at here.

Some next steps include making a version that works in Visual Studio.