Task apps live and die by their task forms. We’re very proud of ours, but we’re constantly looking for ways to make it even better. It has always made adding lots of detail easy, but it can feel cumbersome when you needed to edit a long task description. So we came up with a better way: you can now edit task descriptions (and titles!) right on task pages!

We’ve also updated the task form with two small improvements. First, we’ve put due dates inside the same blue tokens you’re used to seeing in the List and Delegate fields, so quickly removing a due date is now much easier. Second, we added the option to remove tags from the list of suggestions, so now you can quickly remove outdated tags, tags with typos, and so forth.

Enjoy!

The Flow Team

Update: Flow Concierge was discontinued on November 1, 2012.

What if there were someone on your team who never called in sick and never complained when you gave them small, annoying jobs to do? What if the next time you needed to book an appointment, find the best sushi restaurant in town, or compare hotel rates for an upcoming trip, all you had to do was create a task for it? Sounds pretty good, right? We think so, which is why we’re pleased to announce Flow Concierge, a new personal assistant service available exclusively to Flow users.

What is Flow Concierge?

With Flow Concierge, you can delegate tasks to our team of expert personal assistants from right within Flow. You can use it to book appointments, find travel options, do online research, or any of the thousand other little things that clog up your day. And the best part is, it’s built right into Flow’s web and iPhone apps, so you assign Concierge Agents tasks exactly as you would anyone else.

How do I get started?

To get things rolling, we’re giving all Flow subscribers a free task each month as part of their regular subscription. After that, Concierge plans start at less than $1 a day. To assign something to the Concierge, just create a new task as you normally would and click the green Concierge button in the “Delegate” field. Then sit back and relax as your new personal assistant takes care of the rest.

Now go, start delegating, and enjoy. Your day just got a whole lot easier.

Update: Flow Concierge was discontinued on November 1, 2012.

When you keep something running 24/7, dealing with the occasional bug is just part of the process. They’re pretty rare in Flow, but when they do pop up, we know how important it is to respond quickly and communicate with our users about what’s happening.

With that in mind, we’ve decided to setup a new status page for Flow. So from now on, any time you encounter an issue with Flow’s web, iPhone, or Mac apps, all you have to do is check status.getflow.com to find the latest status updates while we address the problem.

The Flow Team

We’re happy to introduce a great little feature to Flow today: list duplication.

From now on, you can re-create any list and all its tasks simply by selecting “duplicate” from the list-options menu.

This should be especially handy if you find yourself regularly adding the same tasks to new lists. Now you can just create a template with those common tasks and the next time you start a new list, just hit “duplicate” and you’re ready to roll.

As an added bonus, we’ve made it so a list with “Template” in the name duplicates without the word “template.” (So: “Web Design Template” would duplicate as “Web Design.”) That way you can create a folder with all your template lists so you can easily find them later.

Enjoy!

It’s always been easy to create and delegate tasks, leave comments, and receive notifications via email, but until now attachments had to be added in-app.

Not anymore. From now on, any time you email a task to tasks@getflow.com or reply to a notification to comment, any files you attach will automatically be uploaded to the task.

Enjoy!

The Flow Team