No high overview of main features for potential user

[RalphCorderoy]

If someone like me who's heard of taskwarrior from a friend visits https://taskwarrior.org/ then there's little to attract him to find out more.

• Most of the page is filled with News which is of no interest.
• The swatch of screenshots are too small to see detail and don't enlarge when clicked.
• A New User? is told to Start here... but that has its own problems described below.

What's missing is a high-level overview of the main features.

If https://taskwarrior.org/docs/start.html is followed then Why Choose Taskwarrior? would be read but there's still no list of features. And The Quick Demonstration is far too simple to get them across and would be the wrong method.

[tbabej]

Hi @RalphCorderoy, those are good points. Would you be open to contributing this, perhaps as you get more comfortable with the taskwarrior and the ecosystem?

[RalphCorderoy]

Hi @tbabej, no, sorry, I'm not intending to use Taskwarrior. @twaugh pointed it out in 2020-07 so I visited then but wasn't hooked, and then I heard yesterday he's stuck with it so I visited again but I'm still left thinking 'Interesting, but I'm not sold'.

Regarding the types of big items for features, perhaps this issue can have them mentioned by experience users as it shouldn't just be tutorial or introductory things for they don't make much of an impact. Looking at https://taskwarrior.org/docs/ and https://taskwarrior.org/images/swatch.png I'd expect to see fleshed out descriptions of the power of:

• Task list presentation
• Projects
• Tagging
• Scheduling
• Reporting
• Charting
• Calculations
• Synchronisation
• Undo and change history
• Zones, e.g. work v. home

But I could be wrong.  :-) I imagine they'd each include a screenshot quite often to make more impact and let me see at a glance what's meant. Not an animated screencast though, that would be annoying as I'd have to pause reading until it was showing me the bit of interest.

BTW, that swatch.png above is near useless here; at 120 pixels tall, I struggle to work out what the fourth screen is trying to impart.

[tbabej]

Thanks for the feedback here! We definitely need to work on the website, only bottleneck is the number of volunteer hours, so I hope you don't mind me trying to loop you in here :sweat_smile:

[RalphCorderoy]

No problem. Might it be worth mentioning on a mailing list as you may have a user subscribed who couldn't contribute to the source code but is able and willing to chip in on web work?