As a to-do assignee, let me optionally set a status to indicate progress

What is the challenge?

I sometimes get assigned to-dos that are time consuming tasks that may take a few hours of time to finish spread over a few days.

Currently, I have no way to indicate that I have begun work on the to-do other than adding a manual comment.

I think the to-do owner would like to be able to see the current status of my to-do.

What is the impact?

To-do owner has little/no visibility into the status of the assigned task.

Describe your idea

Allow to-do assignees to optionally set a progress status for their to-do.

It could be a small and simple set of statuses, and the default status would be blank instead of 'not started' since many times you may not need these statuses.

• In progress

• On hold

• Blocked

Those three may be all that is needed. The checkbox itself would still serve as the 'not started' and 'completed' indicator.