ProtoTasq aims to be the Next Level in Project Task Management for WordPress. Collaboration on every aspect of a project can be managed through a fast, super-efficient, friendly and intuitive user interface experience. This improved organization helps maximize you and your team’s creativity via streamlining task prioritization and topical communication.

By creating a hierarchical, filterable, and prioritized Task Interface, ProtoTasq allows for a quick-loading overview of any combination of tasks from any number of projects at once, with quickly accessible views of their relevant status and data. With threaded checklists and discussions for each record, the latest comments are available through a filterable message interface, allowing for the most relevant and timely communication to be easily accessed.

 

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A Workflow Structure that Sticks

The uniqueness of ProtoTasq over other project manager software is it’s high focus on improved efficiency through streamlined organization. This is achieved through a clear record hierarchy, meta filtering interface, fine-grained task prioritization and deeply integrated communication.

  • Hierarchy
    ProtoTasq is built on the Colony concept of a hierarchy of “domains”: Colonies -> Projects -> Tasks. A Colony is generally a business or any organization, with any number of Projects (online or offline!) – and Tasks within each Project. (And with Checklists at each level!)
  • Filtering
    Since Tasks can further be grouped by the Sector, Division, Stage and Issue type, you can quickly load exactly the Tasks you need to focus on right now. Ultimately this means it provides the flexibility to easily access and manage any project, from the simple to the complex.
  • Prioritization
    By providing a scale of priority statuses from Critical down to Low, executing your planning becomes more sequential. You can see at a glance what needs to be done sooner, across multiple colonies and projects.
  • Communication
    With an in-built Message center, each team member can keep track of all the discussions they are involved in, replacing convoluted email threads and confused all-in chats.

Is your “organization” actually a disorganization? Then implementing ProtoTasq as your project management solution is going to be a game changer, whether you’re a full digital agency team or lone wolf freelancer. There’s enough in-built flexibility to manage projects for any business size, from ecommerce empires to single client sites to humble not-for-profits.

 

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Wait, Why a Plugin?!

You may be quickly wondering, why create a project management plugin for WordPress? Especially when there are already many independent platforms like this out there? Well, that is actually part of the problem ProtoTasq is looking to ultimately solve… Take a moment to consider, if you’re involved in multiple projects, how many project management tools do you have already? Can you easily sync all that data into the one place to help you prioritize everything? NOPE!

So the question arises, will this ever be solvable? Could we solve this? And if so… how?

  • Step #1
    ProtoTasq
    Being able to see all your related projects within an organization on a single website is a huge advantage in staying organized and on track with project progress – be it for a website build, offline product or ongoing software development – you can see everything that is going on at once. Or again, just the specific projects or tasks you need to focus on right now!
    Status:
    Beta
  • Step #2
    ProTasq
    Now imagine, say you are a freelancer or own multiple businesses – or simply anyone involved with multiple projects in different capacities! – and you want to manage your tasks across multiple websites from one place. This is where the Pro version of ProtoTasq comes in. The aptly named ProTasq allows you to sync data with remote colonies, both pulling in data as needed and pushing changes as you make them.
    Status:
    Working!

  • Step #3
    ProtoSync
    The next step is to allow projects to sync with existing online third party project management services. Given that different clients may be using different services already, being able to do this will be a huge time-saver. (It will however mean including individual integrations for every service to use their API to sync with.)
    Status:
    Pending

And finally, the combination will give us the project management “holy grail”… because if you can sync locally with a remote colony and that colony is already syncing with a third party service, it means that regardless of the which client uses which service, you can sync and manage all your tasks in the one place! and are able to visually prioritize them across multiple projects!

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User Friendly with Benefits

Because all tasks can be easily accessed in the one place, this helps team members and other collaborators participate in multiple projects all at once. Managers can see by allowing for synchronization of priorities across all organizational levels. And workers can quickly focus on the tasks assigned to them for completion and engage in topical discussions.

  • Security
    Having access to your own data in your own database is important. By using a plugin on an existing website, everything is contained on your own server. This means your project data is as secure as you make it, not reliant on the questionable security of a third party service.
  • User Ease
    Similar with user accounts and access permissions. Plus, existing website users don’t need to sign up to a third-party service to participate in the project – be it as a manager, worker, consultant or client.
  • Efficiency
    Everything loads dynamically within a single page interface, saving wasted page reload time. Task values can be edited directly in the interface cells or via a popup edit form.
  • Collaboration
    An in-built threaded discussion system keeps all communications in context for a task, saving further time on lengthy back-and-forth emails. All comments can be seen in the filterable Message interface.
  • Checklists
    Breaking down a task into smaller parts is a common and effective process for getting things done. As such, the threaded comment system has further been adapted to provide a separate checkbox list of threaded subtasks. This keeps comments and actions distinct and well organized.

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Feature List Overview

Record Features

  • Popup Record Form – to quickly create or edit any hierarchical record level.
  • Task Meta – Status, Priority, Sectors, Divisions, Stages, Issues and more..!
  • Role Assignments – to assign Managers, Workers, Consultants and Client roles.
  • Commenting System – to create a powerful in-context threaded Task Chat.
  • Subtask Checklists – separate threaded action Checklist for each Task.
  • Content Editor – full visual WYSIWYG content editor for every record.
  • Change History – to record all progressive changes and who made them.

 

Interface Features

  • Dynamic Record Selection – selectable and filterable hierarchical record loading
  • Task Interface Table – a dynamically loading visual overview of all selected tasks
  • Task Views – instantly switch to a predefined View of grouped task information.
  • Toggle Columns – easily toggle display of any task column in the interface.
  • Value Editing – clickable cells allow for instant value changes without full editing.

 

Cool Geeky Stuff

  • Easy to Install – as a WordPress plugin, installable remotely or locally.
  • Open Source – the Prototasq project is available for everyone to use free of charge.
  • Well Structured Code – with all sections commented for easy developer contribution.
  • Fully Customizable – filterable values and defaults for all functions and data sets.

 

Quick Feature Roadmap

  • (Complete) Link Posts to Record
  • (Complete) Task Checklists (Subtasks)
  • (Complete) Record Change History
  • (In Progress) Time Related Fields
  • Money Related Fields
  • Comment Notifications
  • Add Media to Records
  • Task Search Form

 

Project History

ProtoTasq was originally written as a proof of concept for the Colony Hackathon developer challenge. The intention was to bundle ColonyJS client-side for use in browsers to avoid complex server setup, and thus help bridge the gap between the mainnet and the blockchain. However, due to the time constraints of the challenge, this over-lofty aim was not achieved at the time. Instead, it became the inspiration for the alpha version of ProtoTasq, building project management around the Colony domain hierarchy concept. Blockchain integration via Colony will remain a future aim of the project, but only once the other core features have been developed to satisfaction.

 

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