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larrinski

I concur! I have come from Nozbe and the Tabbed look is not easy on the eyes. I also want collapsable lists, so I can have a couple areas of focus(Personal/Work) and simplify the interface.

The greasemonkey userscript is fine when I am using Firefox at home, but at work I use IE 8(ugh), and obviously it is not useful there...

I recommend the developers look to the new Nirvanahq GTD app for some interface ideas...

Posted 2 years ago

pattern86

I agree!

Posted 2 years ago

sako73

I also vote that the development team devote time to reworking the Tabs interface. An option to list vertically would be one nice feature. Another idea I would like would be to have some way of grouping tabs so I could collapse the group.

Posted 2 years ago

the.jalal

And... it would be nice to select a color for the tab (I'm thinking here of saved searches, which I use a lot).

Posted 2 years ago

+1

Posted 2 years ago

thomas.serio

There's a userscript (and chrome extension) called "A Bit Better RTM" that does this, though I'd love to see them officially adopt that interface...

Posted 2 years ago

+++1
please yes

i also would like to have the lists listed on the side
custom color tabs would be great
perhaps default lists, then nonsmart lists, then smart lists
also NEED to have option or ability to quickly add/edit/delete any list smartlists included, directly from the task page...to go back and forth to the settings page is horribly inconvenient!

i am soo wanting rtm to be the last thing, the one and only task manager i'll ever have to use again but imo rtm is really almost the best but needs some interface changes quick

Posted 2 years ago

bigho

+1

Posted 2 years ago

tomrenfrodbg

I'm voting in support of this, although listing the tabs on the left can be very problematic in terms of page layout, especially if you like long list names (I do). An alternative which would work just as well for me is a list chooser (drop down box) in place of the tab block since only one list can be shown at a time, and I don't need to see all of the lists at once all the time. Combining this with the list ordering request, it could also be the top 3 or 4 tabs by user-determined sort order, then a chooser for the rest of the lists.

Posted 2 years ago

tonysutherland

Moving the list of lists to the left edge of the display page would make RTM look rather like one of those tabbed notebooks (physical) that can be purchased from any stationery store. Apart from having to remember to make each list have a unique set of the first 5 or 6 characters or so (which should not be too difficult), I think this is a good idea (and could be made to look rather cute - especially with coloured tabs for each different list).

Posted 1 year ago

All lists to the left, hide empty lists.

Once you start really using RTM, you will get a few lists to stay on top and ahead. The tabs on top are not a very user friendly solution (unless you have a mere 2-3 lists).

Posted 1 year ago

As thomas.serio said, don't forget to use "A Bit Better RTM" extension (for Chrome and Firefox). It modifies RTM website in a very friendly manner, with lists on the left instead of above.

Posted 1 year ago

Another user of "A Bit Better RTM". The list layout is much neater than the tabbed interface when you have a fairly large number of lists. As soon as you have more than 1 row of tabs in the native RTM interface it becomes ugly and unintuitive to me.

Posted 1 year ago

The "A Bit Better RTM" script is perfect where it works, but the person maintaing it does not have the hardware (i.e., a Mac) to write a version that works with webkit-based browsers. (The Chrome version works because Chrome implemented Greasemonkey compatibility.)

It would be nice to see lists move to the left as on option, if not the new default.

Posted 1 year ago

jeremy.richardson

Showing tabs/folders on the left would take more advantage of modern wide-screen monitors.

The iPad app is a wonderful example of using the horizontal real-estate on the screen to present dense, but visually navigable information. On a 1920x1200 Monitor, the RTM web app is much more difficult to navigate than my iPad. I think the iPad shows more information and is quicker to navigate.

I'd like to see more information on the right of the task list as well.

Posted 1 year ago

jstrauss

List on the left would be great!
Auto-hide empty lists is a great idea too.
Drag and drop reordering, nesting and hiding would be a nice touch and eliminate the need to do everything on the settings page.

All of these things would make me use MORE smart-lists (the tabs are too hard to use with 10+ lists) and if I used more smart-lists (projects for example) it would help ease the pain of RTM's lack of subtasks... a little.

Posted 1 year ago

column list, plus color coding, would be helpful in organization.

Posted 1 year ago

I am with you all on this. Most web apps I found on the internet have organiced the lists vertically either on the left or on the right. I have currently over 20 lists (GTD: one list for everything that takes more than 2 steps) and its very difficult to oversee them all as tabs.

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

akochnev

I always have to use the "A bit better RTM" extension on Firefox and Chrome to make this happen. The basic "tabs at the top" approach breaks down very quickly after I have more than a dozen lists.

Posted 1 year ago

ornthalas

Displaying the list on the left would be good.
Displaying it as a tree would be better!

Take the firefos plugin "Tree Style Tabs" as an example.
I would use for example 4 lists:
- Todo (with everything inside)
-Todo today
-Todo tomorrow
-Todo this week

The tree styling makes it more readable.

Posted 1 year ago

ornthalas

(well, the website removes the blanks on the beginning of lines, the 3 last items were meant to be tabbed ;) )

Posted 1 year ago

stefanocayre

+1 on this!

Posted 1 year ago

New to RTM, but already love the functionality. The UI needs some serious work though, +1 for this. Vertical nav bars just "make sense".

Posted 1 year ago

curtlytle

Also, customize the colors of the tabs would be nice!

Posted 1 year ago

+1 !

Posted 1 year ago

This would be greate! It works on the iPad and should work on the web as well.

Posted 1 year ago

rrrick

I also vote for left hand organization AND / OR customized colors!

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

slagod

+100

Web app is so outdated comparing to iPad/iPhone.

Posted 9 months ago

stenkate

+1!

Posted 9 months ago

mgercke

I'm using "A Bit Better RTM", but of course it would be great if it was integrated.

Posted 8 months ago

pquadrat

@mgercke: Thank you for the hint. Solves it!

Posted 8 months ago

apalomar

also making list a simpler tasks is needed. Sucks to go to settings to make a list

Posted 7 months ago

sion.lanini

left hand lists please - put it into a separate frame to avoid lots of scrolling if you have lots of lists

thanks

Posted 13 weeks ago

thinkinprojects

I'm using A bit better RTM extension in Chrome browser. It will move the tabs to a separate box and turn them into a neat list. Well worth checking it out.

Posted 11 weeks ago

I would like to have a consistent appearance across both FireFox and IE. The single most frustrating inconsistency is the cluttered list tabs across the top. Why can't this be the standard UI, or at least an option? It seems like a lot of people use extensions to create this view. Does anyone prefer the tabs across the top?

Posted 9 weeks ago