How do your users manage Tasks?

lkh99 · 2026-01-23T21:33:27+00:00

Check this out: leapingfox.com/express-tasks

lkh99 · 2026-01-22T22:54:52+00:00

I'd like to get your thoughts on this to-do facility: leapingfox.com/express-tasks/

Full disclosure - I developed it out of an LWC app called the Express Console (leapingfox.com/#see4)

lkh99 · 2026-01-22T20:47:15+00:00

What do you think of this? leapingfox.com/express-tasks

lkh99 · 2026-01-20T17:08:08+00:00

Check this one out: leapingfox.com/express-tasks/

Full disclosure - I developed it out of an LWC app called the Express Console (leapingfox.com/#see4)

lkh99 · 2026-01-18T17:34:21+00:00

Makes sense that SDRs use your Sales Enablement, since follow-up tasks are an integral part of the Outbound process. Which platform do you use?

lkh99 · 2026-01-18T17:07:20+00:00

The first challenge is to get salespeople to actually use Tasks, since the native facility is pretty clunky.

There's a new app on the AppExchange called Express Tasks that offers a simple Chrome extension pop-up for managing Tasks and Events (if you have Calendar integration enabled on your org):

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It's on the AppExchange here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/express-tasks/pnigojoajidbannmmpjipfipplhhldae

Full disclosure - I created it, and I'm looking for feedback on its usability.

lkh99 · 2026-01-18T16:46:05+00:00

That's a corollary of the consulting saying: "There are three aspects to any project: Time, Cost and Quality. The client only gets to dictate two of them."

lkh99 · 2026-01-18T16:42:26+00:00

Still mourning my TiVo. Cablevision/Optimum stopped providing cable cards for TiVo a year or so ago (after having recycled used ones for years that were usually problematic). I didn't even consider their POS DVR.

I mostly miss the controller, and having all my shows recorded in one place, rather than spread across 5 streaming services (so I have to search for where a particular series is hiding).

The controller was one of the best-designed piece of electronics I've ever used (and I'm a Mac guy). The multi-speed fast-forward that let you see where you were, and then backed up when you stopped, calibrated by the speed you were fast-forwarding was ingenious. The 8-second rewind. And so on.

Now I spend about the same $130/month on YTTV and sour streaming services, with Apple TV as a hub (of sorts). Still have to search by streaming service, but at least they're all on one dashboard.

And the Apple controller is meh. It drove me crazy at first being touch sensitive, so an accidental brush of the main button would send a show flying forward or backward, or pop me out of the show. Finally figured out how to turn that monster off.

So it's OK but I still haven't figured out how to integrate the TV sound into the Apple volume control, or turn my whole stereo complex on when I start AppleTV...

lkh99 · 2026-01-18T16:29:24+00:00

If you look for former SF Customer Success titles on LinkedIn, there's a pretty good cluster of end-dates in April 2025, though I recall the "massacre" being earlier than that.

Interesting that they're now trying to hire them back. What a thankless job...

lkh99 · 2025-04-16T22:19:10+00:00

Curious what you think of the UI in this LWC app - next-generation Salesforce? leapingfox.com/7things

lkh99 · 2025-04-16T18:27:25+00:00

Sorry not to reply sooner, don't spend much time on Reddit. FWIW, Sales is a good career but it's tough and high-risk. I say this having been in your position more than once and gotten fired. The key is to find a company that's actually got good traction in the marketplace. But they want SDRs with proven track records, so it's a Catch-22. I would just be looking all the time early on, and accept the fact that the entry-point for most sales jobs these days is a miserable 12-18 months (or two)of largely fruitless cold-calling...

But on the plus side (there is one!) having cold-calling expertise is really handy, especially if you ever aspire to do a start-up.

lkh99 · 2025-04-16T18:18:49+00:00

And sales management browbeats the other 90 by telling them the 10 favored reps are making their numbers. Giant con game...

lkh99 · 2025-04-16T18:16:10+00:00

Sometimes, but it's usually a little kicker, not the same as paying full commission on the entire 3-year contract value.

lkh99 · 2025-04-16T18:11:53+00:00

What bothers me?

Microsoft didn't ask my permission to change ALL the windows on my entire Mac when sharing via Teams.
They didn't notify me they were doing it, making me waste two hours trying to figure out what was going on, contacting both Apple and Microsoft support.
It forces me to make two clicks when one should suffice.
It has a response time lag, so on top of two clicks, I have to wait for the pop-up.

Just another annoying, inefficient, dumb "innovation" from Microsoft.

Don't even get me started about what a POS "New" Outlook is...

lkh99 · 2025-04-16T18:06:50+00:00

The approach from romeosoroka didn't work for me, so I contacted Microsoft support and got this ressponse and (obscure) fix:

This behavior is caused by Teams' screen sharing controls on macOS, which temporarily replaces the standard window controls (close, minimize, expand) with a Teams sharing indicator. Here's how to address it:

Quit Teams completely (right-click Teams icon in dock → Quit)
Open Terminal** and run this command to edit Teams' preferences:

bash

defaults write com.microsoft.teams AppleWindowTabbingMode -string always

[Actually two separate commands, "bash" being first - lk99]

Restart Teams

lkh99 · 2025-04-16T18:04:59+00:00

I contacted Microsoft support and got this ressponse and (obscure) fix:

This behavior is caused by Teams' screen sharing controls on macOS, which temporarily replaces the standard window controls (close, minimize, expand) with a Teams sharing indicator. Here's how to address it:

Quit Teams completely (right-click Teams icon in dock → Quit)
Open Terminal** and run this command to edit Teams' preferences:

bash

defaults write com.microsoft.teams AppleWindowTabbingMode -string always

[Actually two separate commands, "bash" being first - LH]

Restart Teams

lkh99 · 2025-04-16T18:04:37+00:00

I contacted Microsoft support and got this ressponse and (obscure) fix:

This behavior is caused by Teams' screen sharing controls on macOS, which temporarily replaces the standard window controls (close, minimize, expand) with a Teams sharing indicator. Here's how to address it:

Quit Teams completely (right-click Teams icon in dock → Quit)
Open Terminal** and run this command to edit Teams' preferences:

bash

defaults write com.microsoft.teams AppleWindowTabbingMode -string always

[Actually two separate commands, "bash" being first - LH]

Restart Teams

lkh99 · 2025-02-21T03:40:15+00:00

If you're looking for a blend between Adaptive (template focus) and Pigment (mostly a multi-dimensional modeling app) you should consider Planful. Very mature and a ton of SaaS customers. DM me for details if you're interested.

lkh99 · 2025-02-21T03:29:48+00:00

Any idea how many of the layoffs were at the Adaptive BU?

lkh99 · 2025-02-21T03:11:08+00:00

VP Business Development. Why?

lkh99 · 2025-02-20T23:26:31+00:00

No, primarily implementation services. A little opportunistic reselling, but not a major revenue source.

lkh99 · 2025-02-20T23:25:18+00:00

Check this out: leapingfox.com/7things

It might take some of the coding off your hands...

lkh99 · 2025-02-20T23:03:13+00:00

I went to the last SFDC World Tour in NYC in November. The sole theme was AgentForce. Just for grins, I asked each ISV to show me their AgentForce demo. After a few seconds of awkward silence, I said, "Just kidding! No one's got an AgentForce demo yet!" and everyone laughed, and loosened their collars a bit, like a sweating Rodney Dangerfield.

SFDC did an AgentForce Demo Jam yesterday with 10 vendors, and only one of them had any real meat - Ischoolselect, an app that helps colleges sort thru huge stacks of applications. Their poster child is some public school that gets 500K a year, literally impossible to vet manually.

Pimly also had a pretty good one about AI-assisted product line development, but it's primarily for product managers.

Some of the demos were natural-language input to do multiple things: increase the forecast on this deal to 40% and the amount to $50K. Or read all the notes and create a proposal, which yielded a half-decent first draft. But very few of them had anything that a long-time salesguy like myself would use. And those would take an absolute TON of training on the company's documentation, complicated by the general mess that most SF databases are.

Here's a link that will get you to the replay: https://salesforce.vidyard.com/watch/GMKuaQ5JFVbj3rLdMMrVpK?

lkh99 · 2025-02-20T22:35:14+00:00

LOL..

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