Tasks are really Projects

Post-Preview, I expect that we will have to mature the Task Kind to be something a little more useful than just 'Add to Task list'. Even today, the most common question we get about the Tasks App area is, why would I bother stamping something as a Task? At some level, isn't everything a task? Something I need to deal with, process, follow-up, finish?

That is true, however, the separate Tasks App area was originally conceived to provide users with a place to focus on just their capital-T tasks, the tasks that were really projects, tasks that would have many sub-tasks with complex dependencies and their own tickler dates and calendar dates.

Today, we don't have the affordances to make this clear. Stamping something as a Task does nothing more than that, 'mark it as a Task'. Post-Preview however, I can imagine that we will use the Task stamp gesture as a way to 'activate' affordances for creating sub-task clusters, marking dependencies etc... See QuickItemEntry for more details.

-- MimiYin - 09 Feb 2007