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Thank you very much for this project, not only because it looks nice but also to have created with a long lost spirit: "I do something nice for myself and I share it with the world" open source, and doing something straight simple with dependency!

I wish more things are released like that.

Also your tool might be very useful because there isn't a good Gantt tool that is lightweight anymore, i search for one recently and my only solution in the end was to use an excel template...

My 2 feedbacks if you are interested: - it is annoying to have the "category" required to create a task. Maybe you could create a task with an "undefined" category if none provided? - a great feature would be to be able to export the result output or view in a PNG picture or SVG.

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Following up on the category requirement comment - if I hadn't read the parent comment here first, when trying the app I probably would have walked away concluding it didn't work.

The first button in the bar is create a new task. That's the first thing any visitor will click. If you try to create a task there is no category available, no hint they are required or important, no reason why I'd care what category the task is, and the error state is indicated by a green highlight - the universal signal for "everything is good." All I would have seen is, hmm, I can't make a task, this must be broken. Move on.

I mention all of this because the app looks like a fantastic new tool and I suspect this small issue would have a much bigger impact on adoption than you might anticipate as the author of the tool.

n+1 to the Category comments.

Feature request: Allow planning by days following Authorization to Proceed or similar undefined start date. I realize this runs into its own problems but 99% of the time I don't know when that date might be yet I need to lay out a schedule to support a proposal to get the funding to do the job being planned. Weekends, holidays, and other specifics are less important than a view of task relationships and milestones over weeks and months.

Even the huge MS Project cannot or will not do that.

Interesting idea. I might do it, I see where you're coming from with it.

I second the annoyance from the "category" being required in the task creation section without having any way to create a category in the task creation section. Creating a category isn't even a heavy lift process in its own creation section, so letting the user create a category in the task creation section should be simple.

It looks like a light weight tool. Thanks.

Great feedback! Thank you. Obvious now that you mention it. I just fixed it. Pull the new version and you will be able to add uncategorized tasks.

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