Box Checkboxes

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Since we can now connect to Boxes… what if we could have the to-do checkboxes on them too…

I’ve been using them in a few various ways where this would make sense.

  1. Treating a box as a little project — so within it I have individual to-do’s as well as notes. Being able to signify right from the box heading that it’s complete would be awesome.

  2. For Dots, I’ve started organizing our spaces by idea/feature, with each getting it’s own box. Being able to close out a Box visually like that would be huge.

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Just a quick screenshot of Things that shows the Project up top has the circle/pie that can also be checked to close out the Project along with the individual to-dos.

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in that Things example the title doesn’t have a checkbox, instead it has a progress indicator that looks like it’s showing the percent of tasks inside it are complete. So in the scenarios you outlined it would show completion but it’d do that automatically based on it’s contents. is that what you’re looking for?

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That progress indicator is also a checkbox and can be checked at any time to close the project.

I’d probably keep this simple and just add a typical checkbox to the box somehow.

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it might be easier actually to do a dynamic progress bar. the advantage of this is that it’d update auto-magically and act as a progress overview

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could add clicking on it to check off all cards inside that have checkboxes. not all cards inside a box will have checkboxes though so i’d assume you want to leave those untouched

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Yeah, I assumed that’d be more difficult so I was trying to reduce scope, but it’d be very cool to see the progress.

The other part, that might be unique to me, is having a box filled with non-to-do cards but still wanting to mark the box “complete”. But I’d be fine sacrificing that if the box could show dynamic progress of the to-do’s within it. (I could handle this with a single checkbox card in a corner)

Edit: I could see the mark all complete being useful (if it doesn’t touch non checkbox cards), but more as a superfluous extra if it’s easy and doesn’t expand scope too much. The progress for the box would be the main win here.

Edit 2: and I think a big part of this, for me, is making sure the progress indicator, when 100% complete, is obvious. Whether that’s fading the box name or crossing it out or something like that so it’s clear from a glance that box is complete.

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WIP box checkboxes, works just let card checkboxes

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beta ready for testing:

  • checking off boxes doesn’t change the contents of the cards inside
  • if a card is contained inside a checked off box it’ll be displayed transparent
  • the card transparently goes away when the card is selected or being dragged
  • boxes default to being created with dark colors bc those have the best contrast with cards in both themes
  • if you paint select both boxes and cards, the checkbox button works on both cards and boxes at once
  • when checked, box name displays strikethrough (just like cards)
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shipped

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