Feature: auto delete recurring task after marked completed [and create next daily note instance, and move new task to there]

[sudoexec]

I track tasks in daily notes. The main problem for me is recurring tasks can't automatically goto daily notes. I know this is hard to implement.

So I maintain recurring tasks in another file then query from daily notes. Now the problem is this file is growing larger and ugly.

Those completed recurring tasks are repeated reminders like birthdays or weekly review.

My idea: when click the checkbox of recurring tasks, delete it and add the next occurrence.
Or any recommendation to organize recurring tasks?

[claremacrae]

I've converted this to a Q&A instead...

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Thank you for using the Tasks plugin, and for taking the time to make a suggestion.

Background

As per the title of this section - Ideas: Any New Feature Requests go in Issues please, we don't track feature requests in Discussions any more.

(Bugs have always been tracked in Issues.)

Here are some of the reasons why the need for this change:
#1168

I had to leave Ideas Discussions open to allow people to comment on existing ideas, and so we could track their votes, so I renamed the section to try to point people to Ideas instead for new reports.

Request

So I would be grateful if you would go to Issues, click New Issue and submit your request there...

I'm going to close this now, and look forward to receiving your report in Issues.

Thanks again.

[claremacrae]

Alternatively, if you would prefer, I can convert this to Q&A and reopen it.

[claremacrae]

Actually @sudoexec, don't worry - I will convert to a Q&A.

[claremacrae]

Hi, sorry for the spam above.

There are two ways to create recurring tasks for use with the Tasks plugin:

1. Add the 🔁 every ... to the first task, and Tasks will create the new instance every time you complete a task.
2. Adjust your daily notes template to generate non-recurring tasks on the days that you need to do them.

It sounds like you are wanting to mix the two, which is not how Tasks works.

Those completed recurring tasks are repeated reminders like birthdays or weekly review.

You should put the logic for creating them in to your daily notes template, and make them non-recurring tasks.

'If it's a Sunday, add a weekly review task'
'if it's 1 October, wish Chris happy birthday'

[sudoexec]

@claremacrae Thanks for your detailed reply.

'If it's a Sunday, add a weekly review task'
'if it's 1 October, wish Chris happy birthday'

The problem is not all future daily notes were created. In my case daily notes should be generated in that specific day.

[claremacrae]

The problem is not all future daily notes were created. In my case daily notes should be generated in that specific day.

Ah, I had missed that point.

That would require:

1. teaching Tasks to figure out which Daily Notes mechanism the user is using, and create a future note for that date.
2. also, different people have different layouts for daily notes - so it would need to know in which section of the future daily note - existing or otherwise - to put the new task.

[claremacrae]

I had wondered about suggesting that you review this post about plugins that manage completed tasks:

• Moving completed tasks to the end of the list #2426 (reply in thread)

But I cannot see any other plugin going to the effort of creating new daily notes for users, given the complexity of doing so.

[claremacrae]

So I maintain recurring tasks in another file then query from daily notes. Now the problem is this file is growing larger and ugly.

Or any recommendation to organize recurring tasks?

For daily tasks, I would still put them in your daily notes.

For other frequencies, it sounds like you have one file with all your recurring tasks.

If that file is too large, I would instead break that down by topic in to separate files.

[sudoexec]

Got it, maybe I should delete those manually.
Thanks for your patience again.

[aubreyz]

I am one of those people that never completes task - when I no longer need them they are deleted. I think a feature that would help people like me, and the poster above (at least in part) is to be able to delete tasks with a simple button from the modal (button would show only when editing an existing task). At the moment I have to go to the file with the task (one click), select the whole line and delete it (about 5 clicks) and then navigate back to where I was (two clicks). That's a lot of faff when dealing with a few dozen tasks in different files.
A delete within the dialog will go 90% of the way towards solving this and a bunch of other issues. An optional bin icon on the task would go 100% of the way probably.

[claremacrae]

Agreed. We have a request for you to up-vote 😄:

• Option to Delete Task in Create or edit Task modal #1281

[claremacrae]

On re-reading this, there may be multiple suggestions here - I am going to treat it as a single request based on the first half of the title...

Feature: auto delete recurring task after marked completed

A mechanism to auto-delete completed tasks was released in Tasks 7.8.0. - see the documentation.

If there are outstanding requests in this issue, that are still needed, they should be logged as separate Issues (of not already reported there...)