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Siobhan O'Rorke
Zenkit Subtasks — Bring clarity and focus back to busy Kanban boards.
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Zenkit’s subtasks, hierarchy view, and powerful filters will help you to intuitively structure your projects like never before.
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Martin Welker
Hi Product Hunt! 🎉 We’re excited to announce the release of our game-changing subitem field, hierarchy view, and even more powerful filters! We wanted to tackle the issue of overcrowded Kanban boards. Everyone who uses one knows this struggle, yet no one has come up with a solution. By accident, while working on our new subtask features, we found the solution to the problem: hierarchical filters. Our new features introduce a hierarchical structure that will allow you to add form to a busy Kanban board. They offer an intuitive way to quickly find related tasks or gain an overview of key tasks. This will allow you to understand your tasks better and find bottlenecks swiftly. Here’s what to expect: Subitem field: Add subtasks with due dates, assigned users, and more Hierarchy view: Intuitively add structure to your projects Mind map update: Finally, fully integrate your mind map with your tasks Subtask filter view: Find tasks related to one task in seconds Hierarchical range filter: See only top-level tasks at a glance Recursive formulas: Aggregate the value of subtasks Automatically mark all subtasks as done by marking parent task as done We truly believe that these features will revolutionize the way you work in Zenkit, helping you to intuitively structure your projects like never before. If you’d like to give it a try, you can sign up for a free Zenkit account today 👍 If you’ve been with us for a while, tell us what you think! We’re excited to see how our new features change the way you work.
Jessica Ludwig
It's so powerful! I waited for subtasks a long time but now it will improve my work. Awesome, I can't wait to check it out :)
Siobhan O'Rorke
@jlu Thanks so much Jessica! We're sure you'll love it! 🥰
Dami Roig
Kudos to Subitems + Mindmaps v2 👌
Rostane Gribi
It's a great improvement, having access to subtasks makes GTD methodology even better ! Thanks.
Felix Marmann
I am the co-founder of a German startup and we started using Zenkit a couple months ago for our Scrum Planning and knowledge conservation. We really love this tool, because we could adapt it exactly to our needs!
Jonas Wi
This feature is what we were looking for for a long time. My dev team loves it. I am the co-founder of a German startup and we started using Zenkit a couple months ago for our Scrum Planning and knowledge conservation.
Nicolo Mandozzi
Zenkit is just great. Easy and uncomplicated to start with but extremely customizable and virtually with no limits. You can really adapt it to your way of working, it grows with you. I can't recommend it enough!
Admin Kingsley
A colleague asked me to share my opinion about Zenkit. We use it already for a 5-7 months. A great improv in productivity and easy to use. Thank you.
Gabriel Zapata
Zenkit is such an amazing tool. I've been using for a couple of years now and it keeps getting better and better. I used it to manage my school work while getting my degree and still use it for my side projects and tasks. Incredibly versatile and easy to use. Love the ability to create custom fields and now the sub-tasks will make the experience even better. Way to go Zenkit team!
Regan Ireland
I use Zenkit to run my personal and professional life. So simple and beautiful, yet still customisable and powerful. Love it.
Siobhan O'Rorke
@regan_ireland Thank you so much, Regan! We're so glad you love using Zenkit 🎉 Have you tried the new hierarchy & subitems yet?
J. Alexandre de M. Cunha
I was impressed with how little I saw! I haven't had time to test further yet, but it sure will help us a lot. Excellent job!
Siobhan O'Rorke
@alexandre_cunha We're happy you're impressed so far! We'd love to hear what you think once you have some time to play around! 🙌
Pete Gardner
The subtasks feature is a great step forward! I have some suggestions: 1. When the Task List add-on is active, checking a parent task will automatically check all the subtasks, but checking all the subtasks will not automatically check the parent task. Can this feature be added? 2. Parent tasks do not usually contain actual data for every field. They usually aggregate this from their subtasks. Item 1 is an example. Another example could be Duration. Any plans for this sort of thing. (Of course, this is all leading to the topic of Gantt Charts, which I know is in the plan). Thanks!
Jesse Des
@pete_gardner Thanks for your feedback! 1. We discussed this before the release and decided against it because there are definitely items that are more than just the sum of their subitems. However, we might change our minds if more users request this behavior. I created a feature request for it :-) 2. At least for the "duration" example, you can already do this with recursive formulas! Here is how: Let's say you have a number field called "Duration" and a subitems field called "Subitems". Now you can create a formula field, using the following syntax: sum({Subitems:Duration}) + Duration If you have any questions, let me know.
Pete Gardner
Subtasks + Task List add-on = Problem Hi, I've found an issue with subtasks when the Task List add-on is activated and the checkbox is linked to a label ("Done" state, for example). If I check an item, its state will change to "Done", as expected. But what if I made a mistake? When I uncheck it the item's state reverts to what appears to be the first state entered when I created the field (in my case, "To Do"). It does not remember its previous state. There should ALWAYS be a way of "undoing" an action. The introduction of subtasks magnifies this problem. Let's say I have a parent task with a large number of subtasks, say about 20 or more. Each subtask has one of several possible states selected. In Hierarchy View, if I check the parent task automatically, all subtasks are set to "Done", as expected. But again, what if that was a mistake? I uncheck the parent task and all subtasks exhibit the same behavior as mentioned previously, reverting to the same initial state. I have no idea what all of their states were before that mistake, and it becomes a huge task to recover. This is a serious liability for this combination of features. When we change a label state via the normal interface, it is intentional and rarely an accident, but hitting a checkbox has a much higher possibility of being done accidentally. I hope you can do something about it. Every task label must keep track of it's current and previous settings, so an "Undo" at least 1 level deep is possible. Thanks!
Pete Gardner
Small mistake in the details above: unchecking a parent task does not revert the subtasks to their initial state, it simply does nothing to them, leaving them in their "Done" states.
Imaris the Moon Wolf
A very useful feature! You can make it even more awesome if you add filtering by having completed of incompleted subtasks. It can be used to show only actual tasks wishout general tasks.
I have been using Zenkit with my team for over a year now. Fantastic product and good speed. Better that google docs x100.
Torge
Im watching Zenkit since the beginning. Originally as an asana alternative. Nowadays as a workflowy alternative. Finally Zenkit has the functionality as with workflowy. Unlimited sub and sub-subtasks. This is a huge step forwards. We'll done:) Unfortunately I miss 3 things: 1. Easy integration with workflowy through .OPML import. I have so many notes, and it would take 4ever to transfer them to Zenkit without an easy integration. 2. Not great for note-taking. While Zenkit might be good as a todo and productivity app, for my user case it's not good enough. I want to use Zenkit for todos in the team as well as taking private notes for writing books and having references. For this use case workflowy is much much better for its simplicity. There are to many steps to create a subtasks comparing to WorkFlowy. Adding notes in the description part is just too small area. 3. The app is too complicated comparing to WorkFlowys app. Too many steps before a task / note is added, too small fields to add description / Infos for note-taking. Now you have a functionality like workflowy has, but the way how you created it is way too complicated. Please improve it.
Jesse Des
@torge_janiesch Thanks for your feedback, we really appreciate it! I created a feature request for the OMPL import. Concerning the note-taking capabilities: We are actively working on that right now 😉 There will be another exciting update coming within the next weeks! Generally, we are always trying to make the app simpler while keeping it powerful. If you have a concrete example of a step that you feel is unnecessary, please let us know by sending an email to our helpful customer service team (service@zenkit.com) and we will look into it. Cheers, Jesse
Пенсионер-Монархист
Finally subtasks arrived. Work in a nonprofit, and this is a big step up. Anticipated this feature for a long time, thank you!
Dylan Deberge
Love it so much. I'm using it in my professional and personal life. It's so flexible. Aie aie aie.
Florian Pfeifer
This tool is much appreciated, I just started using it, but from the few I got to see for now, I am really impressed. I surly plan to use this in the future, for professional life as well as personal life. A real life saver!
Daniela Echavarría
Just amazing!! This incredible tool helps you to manage and organize tasks, projects, individual and team work. Its design is intuitive and the features it offers are totally useful. I love using Zenkit to keep my thoughts and tasks on point!