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"Events": Agenda Tasks Linked as Subtasks

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Folke 01/05/2014 15:04

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It would be very handy if a subtask could be a (clickable) link to another task in Doit (with the same title as the linked task).

This would be useful for creating "batches" or "agendas" while keeping the linked tasks fully visible and editable as usual within the projects where they actually belong. For example:

- create a batch (agenda) of carefully selected errands (in different projects) to be done all at the same time when you go to a certain part of town
- create a batch (agenda) of different financial issues (in different projects) to be discussed with your accountant the next time you see him

This would be convenient in many ways:

- it would allow you to carefully deliberate and manually preselect the most appropriate tasks to include in this "event" a long time in advance
- it would allow you to schedule or star all of them in one single operation - just star or schedule the "event" task
- it would allow you to keep your Today list short and neat - only one task line for the "event" task itself
- it would allow you to still always see all the linked tasks individually in the project where they really belong, and to unlink them from the "event" task if necessary
- it might allow you (ideally) to have all the linked tasks completed in one single operation - just check-off the "event" task, and all linked tasks would automatically be checked off

wendy_only post on 01/06/2014 09:50#1

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@Folke
Hi,

I am sorry that we can not support it until we change the Data Structure. Now in Doit.im,every task is private and is not able to be shared. So you can not visit specific task by clicking on the task link on web version. We will consider your suggestion seriously.

Thank you for your support!

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Doit.im Team
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Folke post on 01/06/2014 13:10#2

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@wendy_only

Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding:

- I do not mean that that tasks are to be shared with other people. They are still to be totally private.
- and any clicking would be in-app only; just as when you click a project to see the project or click a context to see the context

Let me give you an example. Suppose I have many projects and that many of these projects contain Errands. Of all the errands in all the projects, maybe three errands need to be done in the same shopping center.

Then it would be very convenient to be able to "group" these three errands together somehow in advance as a "task" ("Visit Shopping Center X"), and maybe even decide a date when to do it - but without removing the individual errands from the projects where they belong (because I still want to see them in their respective projects during my list reviews).

So if these individual errands could be handpicked to be "seen" as subtasks to a separate "Visit Shopping Center X" task it would solve this problem and you would have all the advantages listed in the original post above.

I am not say this is an easy or difficult thing to implement. But do you understand me now?
wendy_only post on 01/07/2014 10:11#3

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@Folke

Hi,

I understand what you say. You just want to use the link by yourself. I mean that if we do what you want which seems is all in your private account, but the logic is the same as sharing the task with others. We can use the project link,but we can not do it with the task link. Our developers will try to find a solution if we can make it.
_Lukas_ post on 03/03/2014 13:48#4

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This would also be very useful for me. I would make an item, as described by the original poster, such as "talk to X". I may have a tag called "person X", but the "person X" tag may be applied to many tasks that are "Someday", "Waiting" or "Scheduled". It would be very elegant to group a number of tasks together to make my "agenda" for person X when I next meet him.

The closest thing I have is to do a global search for the "person X" tag and then scan the "Next" / "Scheduled" tasks. Or I can make a task, and then manually add items to discuss as sub-tasks, but this involves some copy-pasting and redundancy.