Roll over dates on unfinishd tasks

[mgerring]

I'm building a workflow for tracking daily recurring tasks. It currently works like this:

• All recurring daily to-dos live in a note called Daily To Dos
• Each task has recurrence set to every day
• Each task has a "scheduled" date of "today"

Then, my Daily Note does the following:

• Query for all tasks scheduled on or before today
• In a separate list, query for all tasks done on today

Ideally I would like these to be one list, not two separate lists.

At the moment the "scheduled date" is a hack. When an event is checked off, a new event is "scheduled" for the next day, and it disappears from the to-do list.

What I actually want is to only query tasks that were "scheduled" for today. If they didn't get done, I want the same task to be "re-scheduled" for tomorrow (or have its due date moved, or whatever).

Is there a way to do this?

[schemar]

Hey there, this is currently not possible. You would need to manually “roll over” all relevant scheduled dates.

I wonder if this would help: #53

With this, you could just list all tasks that are scheduled for “today or earlier” and whenever you finish a task like this, it would be scheduled for tomorrow. So with that you wouldn’t need to “roll forward”. You would even see for how long you haven’t done a scheduled task based on how old the scheduled date is.

What do you think?

[mgerring]

That almost works! The other missing piece is being able to use the “or” operator, so that I can get either all the tasks scheduled for today or earlier, OR tasks with a “done” date of today.

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[therden]

@mgerring wrote

What I actually want is to only query tasks that were "scheduled" for today. If they didn't get done, I want the same task to be "re-scheduled" for tomorrow (or have its due date moved, or whatever)

• I haven't used it, and it operates without consideration of dates at all, but maybe the ROLLOVER DAILY TODOS plugin, (which moves incomplete tasks from the most recent previous Daily note to the current Daily note), would work for you?

• Another approach using neither due dates nor scheduled dates, which I use for my own daily recurring tasks (which all need to be done "at the start of each workday" and, if unfinished, don't carry forward to the next day) is to keep the current list of such tasks at the top of my Daily template, as a list of as plain ToDo items under the header ## First thing.
  (When I've finished working through them each morning, I fold up that section of my Daily note.)
  Note: this approach necessitates that my Tasks queries for unfinished "next items" without Due or Scheduled dates has to include the filters path does not include Templates and heading does not include first thing.

You also wrote:

Then, my Daily Note does the following:
Query for all tasks scheduled on or before today
In a separate list, query for all tasks done on today
Ideally I would like these to be one list, not two separate lists.

I am curious: why do you want a single query to return both complete and incomplete tasks?