Repeat task after completion vs due date
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Dodge Rea
Oh, yes please!! SO helpful. EG, watering plants every four days. If I water a day or two late, it should still let me know four days later rather than hold to a schedule that is no longer helpful. (Ruben gives all the examples below. It's just a great idea.) :)
Stefania
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Repeat task from day of completing.
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Ruben Martinez
With the current option, let’s say I create a repeating task every 3 months starting today to get my car oil changed. The next one will show up in 3 months, and the one after that will show up in 6 months. But let’s say I don’t ACTUALLY complete the next one until month 4 or 5. Well, now the 6-month one will appear on my Akiflow far sooner than I need it to.
Same thing with changing the HVAC air filters around the house, cleaning the house, clearing the gutters, annual car inspection, financial planning, etc…
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Nick Cook
The workaround is to create these kind of tasks in Todoist. Not perfect, but probably you don't have to create these kind of tasks all the time.
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Molly Hutt
Nick Cook: Paying for a whole extra task manager is a pretty expensive workaround.
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Nick Cook
Molly Hutt: this feature is part of Todoist free…
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Molly Hutt
Nick Cook: It's still a whole other task manager, which means context switching, flipping back and forth between apps, dealing with any syncing issues as they arise, etc. Sure, it's free in terms of money, but it's still excessively resource intensive.
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Nick Cook
Molly Hutt: sure, it's not ideal and I'd like them to fix it properly. But it's a work around in the meantime (and by the way Akiflow is built around consolidating tasks, that's one of its main Mark ting points)...
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Molly Hutt
Nick Cook: Who's talking about consolidating? This thread is about Akiflow not adjusting task dates based on completion of previous tasks. If anything, this results in redundancies, like when recurring tasks pile up because Akiflow rolls them over even if there's an identical task the next day. Marketing points aren't functionalities or features.
Stefania
Molly Hutt: Hi Molly, what I think Nick means here is that if you create these tasks in Todoist, they'll sync to Akiflow (this is the consolidation part) and they'll work as you wish without having to actually open Todoist anymore. I guess Nick was using Todoist before Akiflow so he found this workaround quite easily :)
Stefania
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Repeating a task based on the completing date
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Miguel Leite
I miss this feature from Todoist, where you can create a recurring task that repeats at regular intervals from the task's completed date. In Todoist, this is achievable by using "every! 10 days".
Currently, in Akiflow, we can only do this based on the original task date.
The difference is:
- Based on the original task date:Completing a task that has a due date of "every 3 months" will set the task’s due date to 3 months from the task's original date. So if you created a task on January 10th with a due date of every 3 months, it will recur on Jan 10, Apr 10, July 10, etc regardless of when you complete the task.
- Based on the completion date:When you complete a task with a due date of "every! 3 months", it will set the next due date to 3 months after the day you completed the task. So if you completed the task on January 20th, the next occurrence of the task will be April 20th. If you then complete it again by April 22nd, the next occurrence of the task will be July 22nd.
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Nitin Dhiman
Option to repeat task x days after complete