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Scheduled Events shouldn't be seen before start-time

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N1TeSH1FT 11/27/2013 09:07

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I don't know if it's a bug or a missing feature:

If I plan a scheduled event with a start time set it shouldn't appear on the to-do-list (today) before that start time but it does. It only checks the date.

For example I have a scheduled event which should remind me every evening of special tasks to do and other ones reminding me on noon. When I turn on doit.im on a day I'll get all that todos without needing them right now.

Am I blind because I don't find the right setting or isn't it possible?

Folke post on 11/27/2013 16:24#2

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@N1TeSH1FT

I assume this is intentional and I believe it is also the normal approach that most apps take. The advantage is that you can see today's things in Today. If they did in in any other way, you would have to also decide at what time, how long time in advance, you would like it to show up, which might get a bit messy?

But of course, one simple solution would be to let you "unstar" these tasks once you have seen them. They could then go on living in a Today section of Scheduled (just above Tomorrow) and you could choose to set a reminder for them if you like. How about that?
N1TeSH1FT post on 12/09/2013 14:52#3

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@Folke
Well what I was thinking about is perhaps much simpler: Everything which is due today but only starting at a given time should be in an extra section below everything in today view which is collapsed by default and perhaps a little bit lighter drawn.
So you have the possibility to expand it if you want to see what is still waiting for you later today.

I sometimes have about 30-40 Tasks a day. Many of them are 5-10 Minute tasks which are ownly to be done at certain times (for examples when the customers leave office at 5 pm or when no one's in the building at 9 pm)
So with such an option I would have about 10 Tasks for the whole day till the small ones have to appear... This would be much easier to read.
Well, I know I can achieve this by adding them special tags and filter, but that's not the fine way ;-)
Folke post on 12/09/2013 15:39#4

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@N1TeSH1FT

Hmm. That certainly strikes a chord with me. The way I see it, this will apply to any kind of tasks, definitely not only, nor even primarily, scheduled ones. In order to be able to overview your list (if it is long) it would be very handy indeed to be able to group and collapse (and why not show indented, when expanded) tasks that will be done together at some stage during the day, whether scheduled or not, e.g. a group of errands and appointments that you intend to get done as a little "project" in the morning, and another group of errands/appointments as another little "project" in the afternoon, and a group of tasks after office hours, etc etc.

In fact, I would be inclined to take this even a step further; beyond Today. I would like the ability to create batch "projects" (agenda "projects") where you could list a number of handpicked actions from any number of real projects (without removing them from those projects) and put them together as a "batch" to be dealt with at the same time sometime, e.g. errands in the same part of town, issues to discuss with John next time, etc. And we could keep them Next until we star them or have a date to schedule them for. This would be very handy. And then, when in Today, if these batch "projects" could be conveniently expanded/collapsed we would have a very, very powerful feature, and Doit would be way ahead of the pack.