taskplanner

task planning tool

A tool that lets you organize tasks in lanes and keeps track of time spent in tasks. The tasks are yours. No account, no login, no cloud, no internet.

Features

• Kanban-style board that lets you move tasks between user-definable lanes
• Create tasks with short descriptive text
• Add tasks to other tasks to create sub-tasks
• Add links to local files or URLs to websites to tasks
• Track time spent with a task
• Generate weekly time-sheet reports
• Add properties such as due date, priority, estimated duration to tasks
• Automatically sort taks based on property values
• Customizable user interface via CSS
• plugin-based support for saving/loading different file formats
• plugin-based support for generating reports
• everything is kept 100% offline. noCloud™-technology

Requirements

• Qt 5 (built using Qt 5.9.8, might work with older versions)
• IDE with CMake-Support (big thanks to ballessay for porting the whole thing to CMake)
• C++11 compliant compiler

CSS documentation

The look of the application can be changed via stylesheet. If there's a file called "stylesheet.css" in the application executable directory, the application will load it at startup.

If a stylesheet from any other location should be used, it can be loaded via "Tools->Options->Stylesheet…". Once selected, the new stylesheet is loaded and its path is stored in the application settings from where it will be reloaded automatically on the next restart.

Example

Shown below are only custom classes and named objects. Available css properties and styling of any other Qt classes can be looked up in the official Qt documentation here.

MainWindow {
  /* the application main window */
}

MainWindow #frame {
  /* the central widget of the main window, without 
     toolbar, statusbar, menu */
}

WindowTitleMenuBar {
  /* the window title bar, containing menus, title, 
     maximize, minimize and close buttons */
}

OverlayWidget {
  /* the overlay class used to show 'popup' dialogs
     such as the report view or the about dialog */
}

OverlayWidget > #pClose {
  /* the close button of the overlay. QPushButton. */  
}

#ReportDialog #report {
  /* the OverlayWidget showing the report */
}

#AboutDialog {
  /* the OverlayWidget showing app information */
}

#AboutDialog #pContents {
  /* centered content of the about dialog */
}

#AboutDialog #pAppIcon {
  /* the application icon in the about dialog */
}

#AboutDialog #pAppName {
  /* the application name in the about dialog */
}

#AboutDialog #pCopyright {
  /* the copyright notice in the about dialog */
}

#pInsertTask {
  /* the OverlayWidget that is showin when inserting a new task */
}

#pInsertTask TaskWidget {
  /* the task widget preview shown in the "insert task" dialog */
}

#pInsertTask #pOk{
  /* the ok QPushButton in the "insert task" dialog */
}

#pInsertTask #pCancel {
  /* the cancel QPushButton in the "insert task" dialog */
}

DecoratedLabel {
  /* a label class with two custom properties to finetune
     text rendering. */
  /* property to determine whether text should show a dropshadow */
  qproperty-drawShadow: false; 
  /* property to determine whether text should show an outline */
  qproperty-drawOutline: false;
}

EditableLabel {
  /* any label that is editable via double-click.
     Inherits DecoratedLabel. */
}

GroupWidget {
  /* the lane in which task widgets are kept */
}

GroupWidget > #pTitle {
  /* the title of a group widget. EditableLabel. */
}

GroupWidget > #pAddTask {
  /* the + button that adds a new task to the group. */
}

GroupWidget > #pSortTasks {
  /* the "sort" button that adds a new task to the group. */
}

TaskWidget,
TaskWidget[expanded=true],
TaskWidget[expanded=false] {
  /* the task widget class */
}

TaskWidget #pShadow {
  /* the application main window */
}

TaskWidget #pFrame {
  /* a frame around the content of a task widget that can 
     be used to display a drop shadow or border effect */
}

TaskWidget #pTitle {
  /* the title of a task widget. EditableLabel. */
}

TaskWidget #pLinks {
  /* the area that displays links stuck to a task widget. QFrame. */
}

TaskWidget #pDescription {
  /* the label that holds the description of a task. EditableLabel. */
}

TaskWidget #pShowDetails {
  /* the "expand/collapse" button of a task widget. QPushButton. */
}

TaskWidget #pStartStop {
  /* the "start/stop time tracking" button of a task widget. QPushButton. */
}

TaskWidget #pProperties {
  /* a QFrame around all the properties of a task widget. */
}

TaskWidget #pDynamicProperties {
  /* a QFrame that contains links, description and a separator.
     Child of #pProperties. */
}

TaskWidget #pSeparator {
  /* a horizontal line that separates description from links */
}

TaskWidget #pPropertyFrame {
  /* a QFrame containing label and value of a property. */
}

TaskWidget #[property_name]_label {
  /* the label area of a property */
}

TaskWidget #[property_name]_value {
  /* the display area of the value of a property */
}

TaskWidgetOverlay,
TaskWidgetOverlay[autoPriority="10"]{
  /* the overlay of a task widget. 
     can be used to mark a task widget based on its autoPriority.
     autoPriority values range from 0 to 10
  */
  /* TaskWidgetOverlay has the custom property "background" 
     that can be used to change the background color.
     Any other css properties should work too, but 
     if the background-property (below) is used, the app
     smoothly blends colors into each other */
  qproperty-background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);
}

LinkWidget,
LinkWidget[isFile=true],
LinkWidget[isFile=false] {
  /* a widget used to display a link. Inherits QFrame. */
}

LinkWidget #pIcon {
  /* the icon used to symbolize a link. If the link points
     to an accessible file, its icon will be displayed.
     If the link is not a file, #pIcon can be used to display
     a custom "link" icon.
  */
}

ToolBarInfoDisplay {
  /* an area in the toolbar that displays various information. */
}

TaskListWidget {
  /* the list of tasks within a group widget or the list of sub-tasks
     within a task widget. Inherits QFrame. */
}