Quick add widget on homescreen

[maltegartner]

Add a Quick Add widget button to home screen on Android. It means you don't have to enter the app to add something to the inbox, but can do it quickly and on the go.

In GTD, a core principle is to lower resistance to capturing to raise the likelihood of capturing everything that occupies your attention. I've found that Quick Add widget on my home screen makes me capture much more during the day.

[kolemcrae]

Fully agree - thought it should likely be an Andoid shortcut - much more universal than a home page widget since you can easily assign the shortcut to anything.

[maltegartner]

I'm a supporter for Vikunja, but not actually a user before features like these are built. I hope they will and would love to use a lightweight open source task manager.

[brokoli18]

I am currently working on a widget for Vikunja, one of the capabilities will be a quick add button that will take you to the add-task page

[maltegartner]

Awesome to hear @brokoli18 . If I may add: It would be a big improvement if the widget never had to take you into the actual program, but that you can just click the Quick add button on your homescreen, a small input screen pops up, you type in what you want to capture, press enter and the input screen disappears. You never experience having entered any program. The key to a good capture function in any task management program is that the level of resistance to capturing is as small as possible - as few clicks as possible, as fast as possible.

[brokoli18]

@maltegartner I agree, it would be ideal if there was some kind of popup on the widget that made adding tasks even easier. That was actually my original intention (something like todoist has), but its a little more difficult than I thought. I want to do it eventually but its just much easier (for now) to have a button that opens the add-task screen within the app, which at least gives the user some way of creating a task (indirectly) from the widget.