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Optional Due Date behavior
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toddr_r |
I'm using Toodledo Priacta/GTD style as background. During my setup of Toodledo, in the videos I noticed an selector for task due dates which is 'optional on' the due date.
What I'm hoping to achieve is tasks that only show up on the due date. There are many tasks I need to do on a cyclic basis. I don't need to see them all the time in my task list, they tend to clutter up the place. Let's say I have a task on Sundays. It pops up on Sunday, if I check it off as done, either because I've done it or it's still hanging around undone three days later, then the following Sunday it pops up again. Using the optional flag on a due date doesn't accomplish this. It's unclear to me what using this flag does.. My 'optional' tasks have a '? in front of the date, they are still there week to week. If I check one off, it pops up again with the next repeat date on the due date. Thanks in advance for any assistance with this. Todd |
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Jake Toodledo Founder |
Optional tasks will automatically get marked as completed when the due-date passes.
More info: http://www.toodledo.com/info/help.php#42 |
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SES21 |
Try using a Start Date in conjunction with the optional Due Date & set the dates the same. Then you could hide future tasks & it won't show until its Start Date arrives. When you complete it (or not), the Start Date will move forward with the Due Date. Alternatively, you could consider using a Date view for your tasks.
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Olivir2015 |
Another way is to use a Search View for this - if due date exists, show only if due date is today (or before?).
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Salgud |
I just use "Due Date | is before | tomorrow".
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cj |
Posted by Jake:
Optional tasks will automatically get marked as completed when the due-date passes. More info: http://www.toodledo.com/info/help.php#42 I just found out the hard way that "repeating" (e.g. daily) tasks with optional due dates - get marked as complete BUT don't repeat ... ie. show up the next day. I had to recover 30 of these tasks yesterday ... AND also these "completed" tasks did NOT show up in the 'recently completed' area... they were DELETED. I learned my lesson, but this was extremely counterintuitive, to say the least. |
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SES21 |
@cj
They do show up the next day but ONLY IF you set them to repeat! If not, then they are deleted when they aren't completed on the due date. |
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cj |
Posted by SES21:
@cj They do show up the next day but ONLY IF you set them to repeat! If not, then they are deleted when they aren't completed on the due date. Nope - that's not what happened. They ALL were set for repeat (and optional) - and all got autodeleted. |
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Jake Toodledo Founder |
An optional task should only be deleted if it is non-repeating. Are you certain that you had given the tasks a due-date and a repeat setting?
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cj |
yes, I am certain -
(I am certain for 2 reasons - the tasks that I used are ALWAYS repeating in my list ... and - when I finally found them in the deleted list, their "repeat" status was still set so I merely had to restore them, and then remove the "optional" status. bug or not - I won't be trying this feature again! |
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Sabina A. |
Posted by cj:
yes, I am certain - (I am certain for 2 reasons - the tasks that I used are ALWAYS repeating in my list ... and - when I finally found them in the deleted list, their "repeat" status was still set so I merely had to restore them, and then remove the "optional" status. bug or not - I won't be trying this feature again! Hi CJ, We're sorry for the inconvenience. We'd like to get to the bottom of this. Can you check something for me? In your deleted tasks list, for these tasks, what does it say under "method"? |
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cj |
They are not in the list anymore ... I restored them right away because they are critical tasks and I needed them. Sorry.
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