How to get Task Coach to be a FLO alternative to modern shared project management?

[wolftune]

Compared to something like Asana, BaseCamp, or Taiga.io or Open Project (those two being FLO at least already)…

Task Coach isn't going to replace GitHub issues or major project-management team business stuff. It doesn't seem like we'll have Kanban board views any time, that's a whole different sort of framing, even though it's potentially possible as an alternative view / interface eventually.

What are the core things that would get to where someone frustrated enough with renting proprietary software (SaaSS) is able to consider and make the shift to Task Coach as a path to better freedom at least… Maybe not a whole business team, but just an individual or couple who currently use Asana for a mix of personal and self-employed freelance work organizing… (I have a friend exactly in this position who ever tried Task Coach more than a decade ago)

I think the main issue might be better collaboration, like just households being able to have multiple users dealing with shared chores while also managing personal things in the same collection of tasks. I could start trying to have my wife and I both share a .tsk file synced via some file-syncing method. We could have a category for assignment and subcategories for each of us. Would it be too uncomfortable without keeping a change history though? We'd have to be careful changing things, making sure we both feel okay about how each of us update things. And it would be better if users were recognized so that we can see who made each change. Those would require some big updates.

I think I'd want one of my top forever wish-list items: the ability to filter out so that I could view the lists without items assigned to my wife or without items otherwise marked with categories I'm not thinking about at a particular time. (I'll be opening a more dedicated issue for this request soon).

I know some people really care about calendar integration, that's a whole additional subject.

There's also email integration, Task Coach used to work in some ways with that. I'm not sure what to make of that topic and what is or isn't appropriate.

We can't manage making Task Coach an actual full feature replacement for these large team software projects with multiple full-time staff designing them, but maybe there's some way to think about good-enough and workarounds that would be super valuable and appreciated by current Task Coach users too while being not too costly to build and maintain…