It's been a month since first jasnoo release. June 27th for Windows and Linux versions, and July 18th for MacOS were exact dates. I've listened to feedback from current users, and most common question is - "why is jasnoo so hard to use with a mouse?". To be completely honest, I went overboard with optimizing it for keyboard shortcuts and hiding functionality behind shortcuts. Luckily in software we can always fix things :)
UX improvements
Biggest improvement to UX using a mouse is that you can now right click nodes on the Canvas. This allows quicker workflow using the mouse (or trackpad). Before you had to click on icons in the bottom menu which was unintuitive. Now everything is closer together and more descriptive.
Second biggest improvement is that you now have proper dropdowns for tasks and nodes. You can now set date, time, priority and recurring tasks only using the mouse. Looking back, this seems obvious, but I guess this is my mistake.
Along with those 2 changes, there is a lot more UX changes I've ended up releasing now. Everything should be a little more intuitive and easier to use. Nothing is ever perfect, but I'll continue update jasnoo as the feedback comes in.
Full Changelog
- Added an option to close current project from Quick Switcher
- While deleting a node now you are focused on closest node, instead of starting from beginning
- Fixed a bug where multiple Tasks or Goals would be expanded in a list
- Fixed a bug where changing parent node of tasks wasn't possible
- Redesigned repeat task dropdown
- Added date & time & priority dropdown to task input
- Added date & time dropdown to goal input
- Updated task checkbox size and indent to take less space
- Added "Add to inbox" button to bottom menu
- Fixed a bug where wrong task would be focused after creating child or sibling task from task with changed data
- Updated handling of long string of characters that overflow across the app.
- Update scrollbar to take less space
- Added "@next sun" to list of date shortcuts
- Quick switcher now shows all options for all modes, and moving selected item with keyboard is improved
- Updated search to work across all Quick Switcher modes
- Quick switcher can now be closed by clicking outside of it
- Updated guide text for user interface
- Opening Guide from Help now closes help for better view
- Root nodes can now be created from bottom menu
- Fixed a bug where adding a task to inbox would zoom to selected node for no reason
- Fixed a bug where some nodes had wrong border thickness
- Removed unnecessary options from bottom menu that are now available in right click (context) menu
- Deleting nodes now opens dialog instead of quick switcher for confirmation. Now both keyboard and mouse are supported to delete.
- Added right click (context) menu to canvas nodes