Help for Jazz Tasks

The objective of the Jazz Applications family is to:

1. make it easy to use applications that save information that is important to the user.
2. gain access to your information from your Windows Phone or PC.
3. share your information with others as you want.

The first in the Jazz Apps family to do this is Jazz Tasks - released on Windows Phone 7.1/8 and Windows 8.
The Jazz Tasks model is common across devices.  This means that Tasks, Projects, To Dos and Tags save the same information in their local database and on OneDrive, whether you are using a Windows Phone or PC.

Jazz Tasks Application

Data collected for Jazz Tasks include:

• Tasks
• Projects
• To Dos
• Tags

You can define each of these as standalone data elements or use them together to form a powerful tracking tool.

1. Define Projects as the major things that you do. e.g. Work, Home
2. What are the tasks that need to be performed for each project. Add these tasks to each project.
3. If you do sweat the 'small stuff', then add to do items to a task to remind you of the 'million' things that need to be done.
4. Finally if that is not enough, tag tasks. e.g. Home projects may have tasks, which are tagged 'pink' and 'blue' for her and him.

Projects

Projects are simple definitions of what it is that you have to do.  They have a start and completed date. Some projects never end.

Tasks

Tasks are a bit more complicated - they contain a list of fields that you can fill in

• what is the task?
• who is the task assigned to? what is their email, phone number?
• when is the task due?
• when did the task start? complete?
• project that the task belongs to
• list of to do items
• tag?
• priority and importance?
• add a photo
• add a voice memo
• record your location
• additional notes

To Dos

To Dos are 'gotta get this done' list. 

• What is it?
• Have I started?
• Is it done?

Tags

Tags are simple names that you can assign to tasks.