Being able to see calendar items in my Kanban view would be super useful, if they go in there automatically.

I exclusively use the Kanban view, because my tasks vastly outnumber my events. When there is an event, I manually make a task for it in my Kanban board. This is a bit of a pain, because the onus is still on me to check if there are events that I need to taskify every day, and the whole point of me using Ellie is to reduce the mental overhead.

I could use the daily planning, sure... but the point for me is that I need to balance my energy. Having my events in the Kanban board for the days/weeks ahead means I can manage my energy a lot better, because then they count towards the work threshold. I won't accidentally overplan and only discover that when it's already the morning of.

So what would make this feature really useful for me is if there were an option to say 'automatically render ALL of my calendar events as tasks in the Kanban view'.

It would already really help if the calendar sidebar was synced up with whatever date is active in the Kanban view, like in Sunsama. Then at least you can easily see your tasks and events side by side for each day by scrolling instead of having to click and scroll, click and scroll. The inverse is the case for the calendar, where there IS a sync between the calendar date and task list, but in that case there is no horizontal scrolling, so I still end up having to click around to see individual calendar weeks instead of just being able to see the next 7 days regardless of whether it happens to be Monday or Thursday.

Sorry for the wall of text, but I am currently finding it a bit of a challenge to get a proper overview of upcoming tasks upcoming events at the same time. I need all that info to be (at least somewhat) visible in one place.

Any updates to this Chris?

Been loving Ellie btw! I've been a productivity hopper for years. Your comment on reddit about finding the right workflow really resonated with me. Ellie's been the one (coming from Sunsama, and didn't benefit from the guided planning)

Hey everyone, just wanted to post an update since its been a few weeks!

Been working on this for almost a month now (along side some smaller things + bugs) and have made a lot of progress.

Still a long way to go unfortunately (this might be hardest feature I've ever worked on for the app) but here are a few screenshots to showcase some of that progress :)

Thanks for your continued patience 🙏

Hey everyone, just wanted to provide another update on this one.

Restarting work on this (for the maybe 4th time)

A big reason this is so challenging is because there are so many use cases to consider (some people want changes to be synced, some people don't want changes to be synced, some people want rollover/some don't/etc...)

After weighing everything, here is what I'm rolling with in terms of settings/how it works

But there will be a few settings to customize the behavior of the syncing behavior

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This setting will apply to all calendars (maybe in the future I will allow a per-calendar customization of this)

How should we handle syncing changes between the task and calendar events?

- Do not sync any task changes back to the calendar event

- Sync only time changes back to the calendar event

- Sync all changes (title, description and time) to the calendar event

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In terms of rollover here is the behavior I'm thinking

Let me know if anyone has any thoughts on this! What seemed like a simple feature is actually a pretty massive undertaking 😮‍💨 but thank you all for your patience here!

Was about to request this. I spend 15+ hours weekly on calls, so without this functionality those hours dissapear from my reports

"Please implement the same button for Outlook (Microsoft Calendar) integration as well. Sunsama has implemented it in the same way (a button on the event), and it works perfectly.

Hello! Just wondering if there was any update on this feature at this time. Thank you very much!

I would NOT want something that originated from my calendar to be rolled over. My goal would be to have the gcal entries on my task list with automated time. I'd even be fine with it auto-completing at the end of the slotted time. This would help me from oversubscribing my day

Emailed enquiring about this featuring this morning. Awesome to see that it's in the pipeline! When using the Kanban View like a to-do list it's extremely helpful to see calendar events scheduled for that day at a glance. Being able to tick these events off as tasks or reschedule right from the Kanban view by dragging them into another day column.