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Supertask
Supertask is a native Mac application for keeping your projects, task lists and tasks in check. It's great for both collaborating among a team (using Dropbox) as well as your personal projects.
Supertask 1.0.2 is available for purchase on the Mac App Store. If you want to try before you buy, you can first download a trial version.
How can I use it?
| Supertask is made for sharing projects, task lists and discussion among an agile team, or across your multiple Macs, without setup and maintenance hassle, using Dropbox for syncing through the cloud. |
You are sure to find Supertask useful if the following seems familiar to you. This is what we created the application for, after failing to find a suitable application to use ourselves! |
You have projects.
You work on stuff that takes days, weeks or months to complete, with a deadline looming on the horizon.
At first, your projects are not that clear-cut, but that's just the beginning.
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You have task lists.
You split the work into check lists of things small enough to do in a few hours.
These task lists have priorities: whatever is on top is the next most important thing to work on.
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You have a team.
Others working on the same stuff want to know who does what next, and contribute to planning it out.
Accessing the shared space must be as simple as Forrest Gump's shrimps.
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...Or you work on your own.
Of course, not every project involves a highly trained specialist for each task.
Doing a little home improvement or a personal side project still benefit from the same solid workflow.
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There are a thousand tasks.
Step by step, you get from a rough draft to a refined picture of what is to be done.
Some tasks are big ones, some are smaller, some are distant relatives. Everything is captured.
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Details need sorting out.
Many devilish details are not crystal clear right away.
You need to write things down, ask questions and get answers. The discussion must be viewable later, too.
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What is most important right now?
All the planning done, it's time to get things done for real.
You pick a task or three, forget everything else for a while, and focus.
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Done. Next. Repeat.
In pure execution mode, you check that mark, and another one. Done!
Anything else left for the day?
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What do I need?
Supertask works on any Mac with OS X Lion or Mountain Lion. See features and requirements for details.
Speaking of Macs, having a native Mac OS X experience for sharing projects and task lists is the main reason why we created Supertask in the first place.
After using some established alternatives (and maintaining installations of them) for years, we decided doing a major part of daily work in the web browser was over for us. We didn't purchase our gorgeous Macs to use them as netbooks, after all!
Supertask strives for familiar workflows and solid performance on the Mac, combined with the good parts of using the cloud as infrastructure. For us, that means both online and offline use, without requiring always-on network connectivity.
If you share some of our views, we are sure you will find Supertask a good fit in your daily workflow.
Features
| Supertask saves your projects and task lists as documents on your Mac. Via Dropbox, Supertask supports concurrent editing & syncing among a team, as well as offline changes. |
As a full-featured Mac application, Supertask has fast task searching, drag & drop editing workflows and undo/redo of any change. An interactive tour gets you started. |
Collaboration and syncing
Supertask is built for collaboration among your project team. Projects stay in sync on all your Macs.
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Concurrent editing
To collaborate on a project with your team, save a Supertask document into a shared Dropbox folder, wait for the initial sync to complete, and off you go!
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Simple collaborator management
There is no mandatory people management to do in Supertask, no user accounts or permissions to set up. Sharing a document via Dropbox handle most of it.
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Requests, responsibles and estimates
Tasks in Supertask have requesting and responsible collaborators. Work hour estimates with automatic task list totals are also available.
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Daily focus
Every collaborator has personal Today and Tomorrow task lists for picking things to focus on on any given day.
Your daily task list history is also retained for later viewing how work has progressed.
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Questions & answers
All discussion related to a task is stored along with it in the Supertask document.
To avoid stalling work on critical tasks, unresolved questions are highlighted in the sidebar until answered by a collaborator.
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Sprint task lists
Supertask has a special task list kind for sprints of an agile development project.
When adding sprint task lists, sprint due dates are automatically calculated based on development cycle length.
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Notable changes
Supertask will tell you about other collaborators' changes that are meaningful to you.
Notable changes include someone making you responsible for a task, asking you a question, and answering one of your questions.
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Offline editing
When collaborating through Dropbox, you don't have to be constantly connected, either.
You can make changes to a Supertask document while offline. The changes will be synced the next time you do get online.
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Sync documents to all your Macs
Supertask is not useful only for collaborating with others.
Document syncing through Dropbox works equally well for your personal project documents, across all your Macs.
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Document editing and viewing
As a native OS X app, Supertask works the way you expect, with drag & drop editing, full undo/redo and fast searching
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Documents on your Mac
Supertask saves your projects, task lists and tasks into documents on your Mac. You use it like any other document-based application.
The unique part is that Supertask documents are also collaborative, meaning that changes can be synced around in realtime.
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Projects, task lists and tasks
A Supertask document can contain any number of projects, task lists and tasks.
Then again, creating and sharing new document is so quick & easy that there's no need to clutter a single file with projects that have already been completed.
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Rich text comments with attachments
Comments related to a task can have formatting like headings, body text, links and lists. Spelling errors are also highlighted.
Additionally, you can embed attachments like images, drawings or entire design documents into a comment.
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Drag & drop
To arrange tasks by priority, drag & drop them into the order that makes best sense.
Do the same to move tasks from one task list to another, pick tasks to work on today, or even copy entire projects to another document.
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Undo/redo
You can undo any change you make in a Supertask document — and redo anything you undo.
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Search
Tasks can be searched for by keywords in their titles or related comment text.
Searching can apply to the entire document, or focus only on specific projects and task lists you pick.
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Task filtering
To see only what matters at any given time, you can filter tasks shown to you in the task list outline.
Filters can match tasks by their unfinished/done status, responsible person, original requesting person and other details.
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Keyboard power
Supertask has keyboard equivalents for recurring navigation and editing tasks.
Enter adds a new project, task list or task. Space edits titles. Arrow keys move from tasks to comments and back. Command + Shift + U shows unfinished tasks only, and so on.
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Fullscreen mode
Supertask supports the standard fullscreen mode introduced in OS X Lion. Try it out, it's quite useful indeed!
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Advanced features
Sometimes a power user needs someting a little extra
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Multiple task list outlines
Sometimes you may want to see more than one task list at the same time, for comparison or moving tasks between them.
To open a second task list outline, you simply double-click a task list in the sidebar.
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Subtasks
If you need to split a task into smaller, actionable steps, you can use subtasks.
Subtasks are arranged through drag & drop like regular tasks. You can also easily convert a regular task into a subtask, and vice versa.
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Task status flows
If the simple default scheme of unfinished/done task statuses is not enough, go ahead and pick one of the built-in status flows, or create an entirely custom one.
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Task relationships
When two tasks are related but, for example, located in separate task lists, you can mark them as duplicates or dependent on each other.
To mark two tasks as related, you draw a relationship connector between them.
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Getting Started
The application will help you find your way
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Interactive tour
Supertask has an interactive tour feature that walks you through essential features and main parts of the document window.
The tour is shown when you first launch the application. You can also revisit it later whenever you want.
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Comprehensive help documentation
The application comes with fully searchable Help Center content. Contextual help is also available for the main features.
Additionally, an example document that explains the basics is included.
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Tutorial Videos
Supertask tutorial videos coming soon!
Questions And Answers
Please ask us anything on the feedback form.
Supertask Trial
What are the trial restrictions?
Supertask Trial is fully functional for a total 15 days of use. During that time it has all the features of the paid Mac App Store version.
This means individual days of use. If you run Supertask Trial on a Monday and a Thursday, that’s two trial days, not four - the Tuesday and Wednesday in between are not counted.
After the trial period is over, Supertask Trial will open documents in view-only mode.
How do I install Supertask Trial?
The download is a ZIP file that constains the application. You install it in the traditional outside-of-the-Mac-App-Store way:
- Wait for the download to complete.
- If your web browser does not do this automatically, extract Supertask Trial.app from the ZIP file.
- In Finder, drag & drop Supertask Trial.app into your Applications folder.
Installation complete! You can now launch Supertask Trial.
Is there some difference between Supertask Trial and the Mac App Store version?
Aside from the limited trial time, the trial version has all the same features as the Mac App Store version.
Only these details differ:
The application icon sports a TRIAL badge accross the top left corner. Supertask Trial self-updates in place when we publish changes to it. The Mac App Store version, on the other hand, is updated by the operating system (at your request in the App Store application.)
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Features
Why doesn’t Supertask have feature X?
We may have not gotten around to it yet, or may have specifically decided not to do such a feature.
Especially if it is a deal breaker for you, please let us know about what is missing!
Why is feature Y in Supertask so braindead?
While we try to thoroughly think about usability, we may have been a bit too clever for ourselves on occasion.
Please let us know what the problem is, and we’ll see what to do about it.
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