Gantt chart

[Risk Complex]

Please. For the love of god.  Implement a Gantt chart.  It doesn't have to be complicated.  For v1.0 of the Gantt chart it can be a bar that starts at the start date and ends at the end date and connects to another bar dependency via a thin black line.  That's all.  Please. 

[Stéph]

I think you mean ends at the due date - otherwise you wouldn’t have any ends to your bars until they’re completed. 

[Risk Complex]

Yes, the due date. 

First of all MLO is single-handedly my favourite product. I use it every day.  The team at MLO has done a great job and I wish more products were of this quality. It's like the MLO team can read my mind and has everything implemented that one would need to organize their life.  Except for one glaring issue: Gantt charts.

The lack of this feature is quite honestly perplexing and a big stain for MLO.  I've seen the excuse given that the users would always ask for more. How ridiculous is that? Even if that were true, how can anyone think this is a good justification for not having a fundamental/basic feature? Displaying data in Gantt charts is something that's used throughout almost any organization, development team, etc, and for good reason.  They are an incredibly effective way to understand the most important details of a project at a glace, you see both the estimated start/due dates and tasks that depend on one another across all of your projects. Instead they focus on 'dashboard' and 'dark mode'? Makes no sense to me.

I had one of my junior developers implement an in-house solution for us and he parsed and produced a GANTT chart from the exported xml file in a single afternoon (~3 hours of work). Granted it is not incorporated with the app and has no interactivity, but even a semi-competent developer could get that worked out in a few days and based on what I've seen MLO has good developers on their end as the product is great in almost every other respect. So I just don't get it.

[A. W.]

And related to more feature I would recommend to really prioritize based on the terms ..my ..life ..organized.

😉🤣
And avoid any other possible fancy stuff.

Related to the overall product quality... Agreed.. Best product ever. It's is obviously visible that the devs are using the thing themselves.

Cheers Alexander

[A. W.]

Gantt is truly a bottleneck!

The feature about time grouping options is a step into that direction..

But a zoomable Gantt feature would be even better for true sophisticated life planning/insights.

Fully agreed 😎

riskc...@gmail.com schrieb am Sonntag, 22. Januar 2023 um 21:36:40 UTC+1:

[Susannah]

I agree also

[Craig Lindholm]

Yep. It would be awesome!

[Claude x]

+++  it would be great!!!

[A. W.]

just doing through my daily routine... and dreaming about a possible future :)

1- Putin go away

2- .... some specifications for the gantt feature :)

---- config

- set of tasks to include in the gantt - by view - like all tasks that are displayed in the view and have dates are included in the gantt-view

- select the dates to use for the bar visual - like (start, due), (created, due), (modified, due), (start, TODAY), .... basically start and end configurable based on available data

- coloring of the bars based on rules based on attributes, flags, contexts, ... - again freely configurable

- icons for bars on the same principle as coloring

---- viewing

- zooming possibility - so that you can go from daily insights to lifetime insights - back and forth

---- canvas mgmt - that would be the overkiller in usability

- best to combine with the "dashboard" feature - which still is "advanced view mgmt" and not a "dashboard" - but anyway ;)

- - one element of the dashboard can be a gantt view

....

that would be like a quantum leap for insights creation and getting m-l-o... 

.. just dreaming

.. all the best for the team in ukraine

[A. W.]

adding to feature requests related to auto-X..:

both are mutually exclusive..

- auto-zoom: if active: the task with the earliest start-date is kept on the left border, task with the latest end-date is kept on the right border - all the rest is automagically zoomed accordingly

- auto-focus: if active: with the setting of the intervall-size. the task in focus in the reference-non-gantt-view is used to keep the same task in the center of the gantt-view.

then the feature would be complete.

-a