We have added the following features to the Mentat website

• Custom categories
• Repeating tasks
• Renaming Projects
• The ability to move tasks between projects
• Fully draggable task elements
• Public projects
• Guest users

Custom Categories

You can rename the categories for a project or create new ones from a project’s administration page. You can not delete a category unless there are no tasks using it.

Repeating tasks

You can set tasks to repeat every day, or on specific days of the week. We will add support for monthly and yearly tasks soon.

You can change a tasks repeating behavior by jumping to the task’s main view from the agenda or a project (the icon on the right right side of the task bar).

Renaming Projects

You can now change a project’s name from the project’s administration page.

Moving tasks between projects

If you are an administrator for two projects you can move tasks from one project to another. This is currently only supported in the Agenda view. Bring up the task’s HUD and click on the project name, and select a destination project from the drop down that appears.

Fully draggable task elements

You can now click anywhere on an Agenda view task and drag it: we have eliminated the old drag handles that we use to use.

Public projects

A project administrator can now make projects accessible to non-project members. We support 4 types of visibility:

• Private - this is the default for all projects. Only invited members have access
• Read Only - Users can browse tasks but can not create new tasks or modify existing task settings
• Limited public - Any Mentat user can access your project as a Guest (see the next section)
• Public - Any Mentat user can access your project as a regular contributer - this means that users you don’t know can create new tasks, delete or close them, etc

Read Only, Limited Public, and Public projects can be accessed with Read Only privileges by users that are not logged on to Mentat.

Guest users

You can now add users to your projects as Guest users.

Guest users are intended for bug reporting or basic CRM functionality. Guests can create new tasks, add comments to them, and mark them resolved. They can not assign tasks to other team members or close or delete tasks.

Coming up next

Bug fixes, UI refinements, and sub projects!

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