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NOTE: This review refers to an older version of RCT. A newer version, which improves on most of what I've written about below, is now available. Its writeup is here:
http://forums.crackberry.com/showthread.php?p=4554434
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Damn, I just bought RoleCall Tasks ("RCT") and I'm sorry I did. It's totally not what I wanted.
I wanted a simple app that, when opened, would immediately show a list of tasks and their due dates. Role Call Tasks essentially forces you to put everything in categories. It doesn't "force" you to but it's very category-based. The date-based display is not to my liking either.
When you hit 'R' to bring up RCT, instead of seeing your tasks listed nicely like this:
Task 1 - due date 1
Task 2 - due date 2
Task 3 - due date 3
Instead you see a list of categories. Don't want to put your tasks in categories? Then you see this:
To see anything, you have to click on the "Catalog" drop-down menu, scroll up to "All" and click on that before you can see your tasks.
This is incredibly cumbersome and clunky. I want 1-click access to my tasks, not 1 click, another click, a scroll and yet another click.
No problem, you say, I'll just sort them by date. This is no better, at least for my purposes. Because RCT displays each and every day whether or not there's a task due on that day. If you for sure have tasks due every single day, then this is not a big problem other than the fact that the date display takes up a large portion of the screen:
Furthermore, since there is no "options" screen where one can choose all the options for the program, the options are scattered around. By this I mean, if you want to, say, delete a category, you can't just call up "options" from the menu and select "edit categories" or some such. You have to select a task, edit it, bring up the menu, select "categories," and delete from there. Totally non-intuitive. There needs to be a centralized "options" area where all this can be done.
Lastly, check out the font size of the task due-dates. It's tiny and light grey, and extremely difficult to read.
No way to change it, unless you switch to the "Role Call Tasks" font which everybody hates, and which doesn't make the font much bigger.
In short, this task manager doesn't do what I want one to do. I need one that is simple, that displays my tasks with one click and doesn't force me to put them into categories, that doesn't display dates for which nothing is due, and that uses fonts I can actually read.Last edited by Furballz; 01-25-10 at 02:21 AM.
01-05-10 06:32 PM
