The past two weeks in Company Task Management went into two questions: what a person should see on the first screen after signing in, and what that screen should look like. The answers are in this article — together with one feature only an administrator will notice, which is exactly why it is worth mentioning.

The dashboard, redrawn

The dashboard has a new layout. Four things changed in it:

Stat cards carry a seven-day trend line and the change against the previous week. The number says where you are; the line says where you are heading.
"What's on today" splits into tabs with counts — tasks, meetings, action items, who is away. Finish the last item in a group and the active tab moves to where something still waits.
Projects sit right below the statistics, not after the charts. Four narrower cards to a row instead of three full-width ones.
A Classic / New switch lives in the dashboard header.

The new layout is the default, but nothing is forced on anyone. The choice is personal — stored with the user rather than the organisation, because it is a matter of habit, not company policy. Nothing changes for your colleagues.

The line we deliberately did not draw

There are three trend lines and four cards. The "In progress" card has none — and that is not an oversight.

We can draw a series only where real history exists: projects by creation date, new tasks likewise, completed tasks by completion date. But the moment a task started being worked on was never recorded. There is nothing to draw the line from.

Two options: compute something plausible, or leave the space empty. We left it empty. A chart that guesses its data is worse than no chart at all — because somebody will make a decision based on it.

Seven colour themes

The signed-in application now comes in seven looks. Three light — Indigo, Emerald and Amber — and four dark: Graphite, Midnight, Plum and Aurora, with glass surfaces and a gradient accent.

You pick one in your profile, under "App appearance", or through the palette icon. Three things worth knowing:

The choice is personal. Whatever you pick, your colleagues see no change.
It travels with you. It is stored with your account, so it applies on another computer and in the desktop app.
Only the app changes, not the public website.

Six themes are available on every plan including Free; Aurora is part of the Pro plan. If a subscription drops from Pro the setting is not erased — the app simply falls back to the default theme, and Aurora returns with Pro.

A sign-in screen that says something

The sign-in screen used to be an empty form on a gradient. It now carries a short product summary beside the form and a "Latest updates" section with the three most recent blog articles — so it maintains itself and is not managed separately anywhere.

There is also a "Remember my e-mail" switch, on by default. Next time your address is pre-filled and the cursor lands straight in the password field. The password is not stored — only the e-mail address. Desktop app users will appreciate it most: unlike a browser, the app window has no password manager to offer anything.

Deleted things now leave a trace

This one is for administrators, and it belongs to the kind nobody notices until they need it.

Until now you could tell that a meeting, task, project or leave request had disappeared — but not who deleted it or when. From now on every such deletion is written to the audit log together with a snapshot of the data captured before it happened. Afterwards there is nothing left to read it from: a meeting takes its attendees, minutes and action items with it, a project takes all of its tasks.

Deleting a user additionally records how many meetings and tasks went with them. That is precisely the case that would otherwise leave no trace at all.

Where to find it

Everything is already in the application. Appearance and the dashboard live in your profile and the dashboard header, the audit log in the superadmin area. What your plan includes is on the pricing page; and if you would rather run CTM in its own window than in a browser tab, the Windows and Mac installers are at /download.

A new dashboard, seven colour themes, and a trace when things are deleted