Fantastic plugin! Between this and other advice given in this thread I've spent the weekend totally overhauling by todo system 
One small feature request: would it be possible to add a break character to the excerpt option as well as a maxlength?
I've added descriptions to the first lines of my tasks but the overview ignores newlines when grabbing an excerpt so I often end up with junk on the ends...
And again, thanks so much for the plugin, fantastic work!