The following was submitted to Yahoo and Google to provide a basic Project Management tracking utility for everyone:
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Open Yahoo Mail, select Calendar tab, select Tasks sub-tab
Ever wonder why users don't use the Yahoo Task Management system? The more people that use the system, the more people see the related advertising; the more businesses pay Yahoo for advertising.
The Task lists indicate EXACTLY what a person wants. So Yahoo advertising can be EXTREMELY focused. The word Birthday should immediately relate to Gifts, cake, and other birthday related advertising. By adding a ToDo subcategory to a Task event, the user lists EXACTLY what they want to purchase.
Ethically, the person is wanting to find the related items, so this is an assistant function.
Under Calendar - Tasks, please add another column called "ToDo" after the existing column called "Task".
This way users can break apart all of their ToDo items into usable detailed lists to accomplish individual Tasks.
Currently, throwing all the ToDo's in our lives into one major list is not too useful from a planning point of view. Each Task has a list of ToDo's that need to be thought of separately. The present Task system is not usable for that reason.
The existing task with a due date would appear on the Calendar. Clicking on the related Calendar Task in the month, week, or day view would bring up all of the related ToDo items in a sidebar (along with related Advertising).
The easy fix:
Add another column to the Task list:
The existing columns:
Priority ....Task .... Done .... Due Date
Becomes:
Priority ....Task .... ToDo .... Done .... Due Date
This way all of the existing data from users is unaffected.
This provides the user the ability to list ToDo items, based upon a higher level Task.
Use a pull-down menu for Task items (eliminates typing errors). Incorporate a Textbox with a button labeled "Add new Task".
For instance:
Task: Advertise for Tenant
. . . . ToDo: Sign out on roadway
Task: Advertise for Tenant
. . . . ToDo: Check for prices in newspapers
Task: Advertise for Tenant
. . . . ToDo: Check for cost of radio
Task: Advertise for Tenant
. . . . ToDo: Make an ad, 45 letters
Task: Terry's Birthday
. . . . ToDo: Invitation List
Task: Terry's Birthday
. . . . ToDo: Party Favors
Task: Terry's Birthday
. . . . ToDo: Find the movie Weird Science
Task: Terry's Birthday
. . . . ToDo: Pick up birthday cake
Think of all the keywords listed above that directly relate to EXACTLY what the user wants to purchase, by a Due Date !!!!
The next thing to create is the Calendar event sidebar with advertising:
Make any "Task" with a "Due Date" visible on the Calendar
Link ALL of the ToDo items with the same Task name
Clicking on any Calendar Event lists all linked ToDo items in the sidebar
Based upon the keywords in the sidebar, Advertisers list their products adjacent to the ToDo sidebar.
A link is provided in the sidebar for any Advertiser that wants to list their products in that section.
The next step if further development is desired:
Allow users to archive lists of ToDo's for future use. So that every time there is a birthday, they can quickly populate their Task with a ToDo template. This way users become accustomed to relying upon the Yahoo Task lists.
Checkbox: Archive this Task (immediately shows up in Task Archive)
Any ToDo created with the same Task name is automatically appended to the ToDo list for that Task in the Archive.
Any Archived ToDo must intentionally be deleted from the Archived template.
Include a Task follow-up question for Archived Tasks after the Due Date: "Next time, what ToDo's would you also include in planning for this Task?" .... Add Another?
Alternatively, the existing column list could look something like:
Task: Advertise for Tenant
. . . . ToDo: Sign out on roadway
. . . . ToDo: Check for prices in newspapers
. . . . ToDo: Check for cost of radio
. . . . ToDo: Make an ad, 45 letters
Task: Terry's Birthday
. . . . ToDo: Invitation List
. . . . ToDo: Party Favors
. . . . ToDo: Find the movie Weird Science
. . . . ToDo: Pick up birthday cake
By making the Task System more useful and user friendly, users will come to rely upon the system for planning their lives. Thus also providing uniquely precise advertising for each user.
Click the following if you want to copy and paste the above to Yahoo support for the Subject: "Calendar - Tasks":
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/calendar/general1.html?from_url=http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/calendar/ 
