Feature requests

It is really tedious to scroll through all emojis on mobile to find the one that suits your list. It would be awesome if you could search for an emoji just like on the desktop version.

I like the idea of due dates and I want to leverage them but their visibility right now is pretty poor. I only see them if I go to the specific task or to the tab. I never go to the tab because I like to see my brain dumps. Not sure what the best solution is here but I always miss my due dates right now which defeats the purpose of them. I need them to be more in my face. Random idea dump: automatically add the task to the date that it's due always-visible view for tasks that have due dates show the due date without clicking into the task

Hey Chris, would you be open to a button on the task card that might allow us to trigger a notification to be sent to a URL we provide? My use case is that I don't use zapier because of costs, and instead use activepieces (Open Source) for automations. I don't mind asking you for access to the developer API and I could just build my connection there, but even easier: a way to just fire a post notification to a URL I provide that catches the request with the response body of a newTask calendar from ellie. I can see this being something useful for people who are still waiting for the todoist, notion, or other task management app integrations so we can build our own low/no-code flows for optimized workflow. Perhaps this can be a good holdover to allow you to continue to focus on your core goals within Ellie while your customers can focus on building the workflow that works best for us. Here's a cool example of one from capacities which is like Notion/Obsidian, etc. Thanks!

When typing in a task, have Ellie recognize "by" for due dates, or 10pm for times, etc. Like in Todoist. This would cut the time it takes to create a task in half.

I'm on the fence for adopting this app. One thing that would really seal the deal for me is the ability to create a database of tasks with updating time allotments. So, for example, let's say you have a task called 'Clean House' and you know you'll want to use that task again. The actual time function would update the estimated time on that task. But the task itself would sit in a list of tasks that are ready to dragged and dropped at any time. So it would be sort of like a Brain Dump but when you drag the item it doesn't disappear from the list. It basically copies it. And the time allotment is updated based on your most recent actual time entry. I've used Chat GPT 4 to hunt around for any task management program that does this and it appears there isn't any. I think it would be a very powerful and attractive feature. If you're timeboxing, having a static list of items you can draw from at any time would be very useful.

Would love to see options to allow other users to connect and view/manage tasks. Would really help with me for instance with my partner, we both have ADHD and this app is a powerful tool as is. Coming from sunsuma and motion, plus countless other unhelpful apps that have this feature, this app is way more simple and easy to use, and cheaper. Would be awesome to be able to share with other users to help with daily/ weekly task management.

The ability to add more than one label to a task would be a nice touch. This would help know what's in the subtasks categorically through multiple tags.

Add a "focus" mode where you only see a single task

Like there is for upcoming tasks with due dates, have a separate view of all recurring tasks where it shows when is their next instance. Sometimes it is difficult to find a recurring task in the Kanban view if the next occurrence is not close. It happened to me that I created multiple recurring task for the same reason because I forgot I had already created one, and I was confused about which is the original one when they showed up on my day.