Prevent a recurring task from “duplicating” if not completed on time, show the next one and skip the past ones.
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Eric
Sometimes I have a recurring task that I want to do every workday, but if I miss one day it does not make sense to do it twice the next day. For example, let’s say I have a task to “turn on the space heater in the back room”. If I neglect to do this task and check it off in Akiflow on Tuesday, it does not make sense for me to do it twice on Wednesday! I have a handful of these types of tasks, and I’ve found that Akiflow’s current behavior can lead to many duplicate tasks “stacking up”. This makes it difficult to sift through the noise and easily see what’s on my todo list when this happens (which tends to be the most hectic of times, already!).
For tasks like these, I’d love to be able to set an option to prevent a given recurring task from stacking up so that if I miss one day, I only see one task the next day!
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Stefania
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Hi everyone,
We just released the quick handling of overdue tasks! You can now easily mark as done or delete all overdue tasks from the same series in just one click. When you address one overdue task, Akiflow prompts you to apply the action to the entire overdue series.
If you feel you need tasks to not be created until the previous one is complete, this might be the right feature to upvote: https://product.akiflow.com/features-and-improvements-request/p/repeat-task-after-completion-vs-due-date.
Let me know what you think!
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Molly Hutt
I'd like to add that piling up a bunch of undone repetitions for a task can be demoralizing when you're trying to build challenging habits. I don't need to be reminded that I failed to do the task yesterday, though it would be helpful to have an archive option so I can look at stats for it when I want to.
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Jesse Clemmens
yup this drives me crazy!
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Ethan Kravitz
Any updates on this? It's driving me crazy. If I am away for a week I have to delete or mark done every single daily tasks that was missed.
A simple solution would be to add a new option to delete in addition to the two existing ones:
- Only This Task
- This and All Future Tasks
- This and All Past Due Tasks
This would clear out my inbox without removing the future tasks. Problem solved.
Stefania
Ethan Kravitz: Hi Ethan, we are considering some possible solutions, I'll keep you posted! Thanks for your message
Stefania
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Chris Rogers
+1 to this; I often have a task like "Update timesheet" or "Update calendar". If I miss it two or three days in a row, I don't need to do it 3-4 times, I just need to do it once :)
Stefania
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Hemal
Tick Tick is great at this. You can set up repeating tasks to repeat based on either original due date, or based on completion date. Would love to see the same here.
Stefania
Hemal: I'm adding your vote here as well: https://product.akiflow.com/features-and-improvements-request/p/repeat-task-after-completion-vs-due-date. Thanks for your feedback:)