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- To-dos are easy to create (can drag or type items)
- Additional notes, documents, related websites can be added to task
- Each task has an importance property. User can sort list by importance and change a task's importance easily
- Color-coded "warning bars" create a visualization of task urgency
- Allows for temporal view of tasks (users can see coinciding tasks)
- TLM extracts participant information from emails/documents and creates contact widgets

Wake Forest University

TaskVista: the TLM prototype designed using the results from both the preliminary and long-term studies. Collects and lists to-dos while being located on the user's desktop

TaskVista (What a To-Do: Studies of Task Management Towards the Design of a Personal Task List Manager)

Bellotti, V., Dalal, B., Good, N., Flynn, P., Bobrow, D. G., & Ducheneaut, N. (2004). What a to-do: Studies of task management towards the design of a personal task list manager. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 735–742. https://doi.org/10.1145/985692.985785

What a To-Do: Studies of Task Management Towards the Design of a Personal Task List Manager 

TaskVista Key Features (What a To-Do: Studies of Task Management Towards the Design of a Personal Task List Manager)

Positive:
- Features rated an average of 3.94 (on scale of 1-5)
- Most popular features: drag & drop creation of to-dos, desktop view, sorting by task importance and deadlines

Negative:
- Worst received features: temporal view of items (this type of view felt unnatural)
- Participants disliked having to add task-related data (participants, planned start/end times, etc)
--> so, TLMs must include automatic ways to capture this information

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