What? (About myTO)

What is it?

You wonder what exactly myTO is?

myTO is, first of all, an abbreviation for myTaskOutliner.

  • my shall express that everyone can use it in his/her way. And maybe it’s also a small tribute to the autor, mydani (me!)
  • Task(s) – that’s what this tool is for – you can use it to track and organize your tasks – use it properly and you will sleep a lot better. (Wikipedia about task)
  • Outliner – outlining describes how the tasks are organized – hierarchically using a tree. (Wikipedia about outliner)

Features!

  • Hierarchical task tree, providing two types of entries (tasks or structural nodes)
  • Fields supported per task:
    • Name
    • Content (RTF text)
    • Responsibles
    • Effort estimated
    • Effort real
    • Effort estimated sum(current task effort estimated + child tasks’)
    • Effort real sum (current task effort real + child tasks’)
    • Duedate
    • Startdate
    • Enddate
  • Drag’n'drop of
    • single tasks within one task tree
    • EMails to the task tree from MS Outlook >= 2003
    • Calendar items to the task tree from MS Outlook >= 2003
  • Unlimited attachments per task
  • Drag’drop of attachments to a task from
    • Explorer (files)
    • MS Outlook (Emails)
  • Configurable amount of columns in the treeview
  • Configurable coloring of the due date based on remaining days
  • Automatically save and restore window size and position, panel layout, column selection and sizes, toolbar positions on a per-user basis
  • Save document as a compressed file (less disk usage)
  • Manage open documents compressed (less RAM usage)
  • Full-text-search (within task names, content and responsible names)
  • Auto selection based on regular expressions (within task names, content and responsible names)
  • Selected task(s) values estimated effort and real effort are added and results are shown in the status bar
  • Toolbar positions are resetable to default positions
  • Tool window positions are resetable to default positions
  • Reopen files which were left open when myTO was closed

Screenshots

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Requirements

  • Windows (2000, XP, Vista)
  • .NET-Framework 3.0 or newer
  • A tiny amount of harddisk space