The biggest change will effect our pricing. We decided to extend our free plan and offer all current and new members a free quota: you’ll get 100 free projects and 100 free users for your organization. This offer will be available as long as our current server capacities will allow us to do so. Free plans will be free – now and in the future.

We hope that you enjoy our new features and the improoved user interface.

Happy project management!
Erich

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Since the launch of our beta spin-off app lightning we got a lot feedback to copy design elements from there also into the main taskblitz app. So did we and adapted the dashboard in taskblitz to a new transparent look. We also worked on the header navigation and moved all accessory function to the right side. All main navigation points can now be found on the left side of the header.

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In the past few month we have been working on our new baby: Lightning. Today we are extremely happy to present our new task management app as a beta version to you. The focus of Lightning is to offer a simple, fast and though powerful and flexible task management solution for individual users and small teams. As in contrast our taskblitz solution is a full featured project management for teams and companies working together.

Fast and simple Interface
We use for Lightening the latest web technology and a proven framework for reliable and fast client side application delivery. The entire interface of Lightning is fully drag&drop enabled and delivers an amazing user experience.

Flexible project structures
Kanban, list or boxes? There are many visual ways to structure your tasks and projects. In Lightning you can instantly switch between these three visual options.

Shared data layer
The best feature is that taskblitz and Lighning share the same data layer. This mean for you as a customer you can easily switch between the two apps, can choose which app you are going to prefer in your day to day use and you only have to manage one account.

As Lightning is currently a beta version, we would be very happy if you provide valuable feedback to us.

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The first thing that was improved is the invoices dashboard which got a new modern look with more relevant infos (duedate, id, amount, client, project):

Furthermore we added filters here to only see overdue, paid or unpaid invoices.

When viewing a single invoice we also optimized the look & feel here. You can now better recognize to which client and which project a invoice belongs to. Besides we added the cool feature to send an invoice directly to the client:

Besides we also optimized the flow when creating an invoice. You have three options now:

• From the invoice overview when click the “+”
• From a project timesheet/report you can invoice the billable hours
• From the project accounting page where you can see if a project has not been fully billed yet

Another big change that we have made recently is, that now also user can set a n hourly rate in their options. This value is used to calculate the costs of a project correctly. If a user has no rate value set, we use the given organization’s rate value (when you sign up we set this value automatically to 100).

To give you a good overview of all this rate, costs and other values we introduce a new info element in the projects dashboard which gives you all the details at one sight:

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First of all we are extending the features of the free tier. You now can work in a small team of 3 users for free in taskblitz. We also introduce a new intermediate plan for small team below 10 members. The plus plan also includes the chat for internal communication. The new full features plan is called pro (formerly business plan). And we also dropped the monthly fee from $15 to $9 per user.

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You can download our mobile apps here:

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Getting a quick and though full overview of your project is probably on of the key tasks a project management solution has to fulfill. We optimized our approach and merged it with the project KPIs view. You see in one single page the planned and current effort and costs and also a forecast till project completion. These are some of the most important KPIs to match and that enable you to steer your project to success.

Reports, reports, reports

The reports section is a new feature we introduce in early November. We now introduce more reports for you:

• The daily standup report give you an automatically created report to use in daily standup meetings with your team. It shows for every member the tasks worked on yesterday and the ones for today.
• The revenue overview gives you clear insights about the financial health in your organization. All revenue, costs and the profit will be shown her in a monthly or fiscal year base.
• In the time tracking reports you can view and filter all tracked time entry per user and project.
• The project allocation reports gives you a quick overview who in you organization is part of which project
• The utilization report shows you your organizations utilization based on given tasks over the year.

Customize the look with more and new Themes

We renewed our theme color scheme adopting to the one from slack. We have implemented over 20 themes for you to hopefully fulfill your need towards customization.
You can change the theme in your Account Settings.

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Today we just release an update of the taskblitz web application that brings a refined navigation and a new header element. In favor for a better readability of individual navigation points we dismissed the horizontal navigation bar at the left and moved to a horizontal header navigation. We also worked on the navigation structure itself and resolved an often criticized point: the confusion between a users personal tasks, calendar and the tasks in projects.

We put everything relevant for a user in the new navigation point “My Work“. Here you can find:

• Your personal tasks
• Your personal calendar
• Your timesheet

Furthermore we added a dropdown menu in the header to quick access an individual project. We also divided the organization from the user which are now on the right and left in the header accessible via another dropdown menu. There are some navigation points we dismissed entirely like the calendar, timetracking. These points have been moved to the My Work Section and the time tracking reports to the new Reports section. The reports section is something we will enhance in the near future with more report types.

PS: we have also updated the themes to work with the new layout if you’re not into the current white style.

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Today we released an update of taskblitz that has some major implications:

• We deleted ideas from the entire application
• Every project MUST have at least on section
• The task board now follows the sections in the list

Ideas have been completely removed. We did this because the feature was rarely used by our users and we think it is too complicated to have two types of todos. Instead we only speak of tasks. But if you still want to structure your tasks into ideas, bugs or whatever you can now use the sections to achieve that.

Sections are the new way to organize and structure the tasks of a single project (before called milestones). We changed the name to section because it should be just a container for every custom possible solution our users want to build. That can be milestones, but also a kanban flow, a scrum sprint plan and whatever your process is like. Sections are the new and super flexible tool in taskblitz to build your own processes and structures.

The new task list inside a project comes with a new toolbar:

Everything inside the tasklist can be dragged around and sorted the way you like. You can also choose the level of details you want to see and filter the entire list.

A change that effects you in using taskblitz is, that now every project MUST have at least on section. The current way is, that is optional to use milestones for structuring – we changed that. To make the transition as easy as possible for you we do two things:

• When you have a project with a list of tasks and no milestones set, all tasks will be put into a default section. This has absolutely no implication on how you work with your tasks. It is just an internal issue to follow a clean structure in our data model.
• We show you a hint when you use the new sections and still have some tasks in the “no section” area. You should move this tasks to a appropriate section cause we will hide them in the near future.

The task board now follows the structure of your defined sections. We remove the the fixed kanban-like process to give our users more flexibility in designing their own process and adapting taskblitz better to their needs:

We will provide you tutorial & templates on how to use the new sections in the near future (for kanban, scrum, etc.).

The mentioned changes are a big step for us to make taskblitz more flexible and easier to use.

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Project overview
The project overview page has been improved significantly with our latest update. First improvement is that we display active and finished projects in two separated lists, so now it’s easier for you to keep an eye on the active ones. Furthermore we also updated the project data view for a single project (added deadline and task status data). Now you can see all relevant status information and whether a project is running smooth or is in trouble in the project overview.

Project add dialog
Adding new project is getting much easier and faster with the new dialog. Now you can also add the project members in this very first step.

External files in chat
Inside the taskblitz chat, the file upload feature has been improved so that you can choose between uploading a local file from your computer or choose a file from a cloud storage. We currently support adding files from dropbox, box.net and Google drive.

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