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Scheduled for Next Week doesn't show recurring tasks happening in next week

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sarmad 10/16/2013 11:33

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The app is fantastic overall and there is this one thing which God knows why hasn't been included and is so crucial for GTD.

-> Click scheduled tasks on left hand side.

-> It will show all the tasks starting in next week but not the recurring tasks.

e,g if you have 5 non-recurring tasks supposed to start in next week, they will show just fine. But if you have a few recurring tasks which you shouldve been focusing next week, they are not there at all.

Am I missing something ?

wendy_only post on 10/17/2013 03:13#2

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@sarmad

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback!

The server will produce repeat tasks which are start Today and Tomorrow. If the start time is after tomorrow,it will not be showed in task list. You can see all the repeat tasks by choosing calendar mode in Scheduled box.

Shall you need any help or have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact me back.
Thank you for your support!

Best regards,
Doit.im Team
sarmad post on 10/17/2013 10:35#3

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Thanks for the reply.

"You can see all the repeat tasks by choosing calendar mode in Scheduled box"

We can definitely do that in the web app. Can we do the same on the mac / iphone / windows app ?

Thanks for creating a great gtd app.
wendy_only post on 10/18/2013 01:49#4

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@sarmad

Hi,

If you edit(do not need change any thing, just click the save button) the task on web version as well as the calendar widget on Android version, you can see it on other client. If not,you can not. Later we will support calendar on other versions.

We will try our best to make Doit.im better.
sarmad post on 10/18/2013 10:07#5

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Thanks.

For anybody who is on the same boat as me, I have a way around to find scheduled recurring tasks for next week (or any given duration); Using Filters.

Create a new filter.

Start time -----IS ------- Days from now --------- 1 to 14
Group by Start time---- Sort by Start time is ASC

This filter will give you all the tasks recurring / non recurring scheduled in next two weeks.
wendy_only post on 10/19/2013 02:12#6

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@sarmad

Hi,

Thank you for your suggestion.

Now if the repeated ones are not real, it can not be found by searching. Only the tasks which are set recurring rule and the real repeated ones can be in the filter. Do you want us to support it?
sarmad post on 11/04/2013 21:23#7

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Now if the repeated ones are not real, it can not be found by searching.

Couldn't get what you meant there. But generally scheduled for next week should show individual tasks out of recurring ones. For example, I have "renew domain name" set to repeat every year. A week before its due, the application won't show this task in "Scheduled in next week" It shouldn't be this way and is so not friendly. Any task due, whether its recurring or not or anything, it has to appear in "Scheduled in next week"
wendy_only post on 11/05/2013 02:54#8

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@sarmad

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback. We will consider this logic seriously to make it more friendly.

Best regards,
Doit.im Team
Folke post on 11/05/2013 11:06#9

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One of the things I really like about Doit is the fact that it uses clone tasks, which allows you to repeat a "standard" checklist and then add or modify that checklist for this particular occurrence without thereby changing the repeating task (future occurrences). I find this extremely useful and use this often :-)

As it is now you can begin doing these modifications the day before the next occurrence. With some tasks it would be very useful useful to be able to begin to modify the standard checklist long time in advance, say immediately after the previous occurrence. This would be a convenient way to gather notes and thoughts about what special things you need to think about next time you do this thing. My current workaround is to have a special modification tasks scheduled for the same day, where I gather the special deviations for the next time, but it would be so much more intuitive to gather these notes in the clone task itself.

Maybe there could be a general preference setting to "release the next clone immediately after completion"? (Or an individual setting for each repeat tasks to have this done automatically on every occurrence of that particular task? Or a manual "release next clone" that can be pressed for any repeat task each time you need this?)

And, under all circumstances, in the list mode of scheduled, it would be good to always see for each task when the next occurrence will be.
wendy_only post on 11/06/2013 03:07#10

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@Folke

Hi,

It would be better to add the specific description in the clone task if the information is only useful for that clone task.

"Release the next clone immediately after completion" is in our developing plan.

I agree that it would be good to always see for each task when the next occurrence will be in some cases. But if the clone task start next year, I think that there is no necessary to see it now as it may make me be worry seeing so many tasks in my scheduled. It would be good if you can set this manually. We will do a research about this.

Thank you for your support which will help us make Doit.im be better.