Overdue Items - Roll Over to next day in Google Calendar

[Sisyphus]

GQueues looks really atractive and promising. Congratulations.

I don't think this has been mentioned in the Forum yet. If I create
an item in, say, the To Do Queue on, say, Monday but I don't get round
to completing it on Monday (ie I don't tick it off), is there any way
the item can "roll over" to appear in Google Calender on the Tuesday,
and so on? This would be really great.

Please see the description of the "roll over" concept here if I
haven't been clear. Old Palm software used to have this feature and
it was wonderful: http://software.palminfocenter.com/product.asp?id=11031

[Cameron (GQueues Team)]

It's an interesting idea.  It would definitely need to be a setting a person could turn on/off, because I'm sure not all people want dates changed automatically.  Have you checked out the "Overdue" smart queue?  Would this handle your desire to see what items still need to be accomplished?  Or you are looking for an actual date change?  

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[mwilday]

I think this is a useful idea. A setting to turn it on or off would be
great.

Mike

On Dec 3, 11:40 am, "Cameron (GQueues Team)" <came...@gqueues.com>
wrote:

> It's an interesting idea.  It would definitely need to be a setting a person
> could turn on/off, because I'm sure not all people want dates changed
> automatically.  Have you checked out the "Overdue" smart queue?  Would this
> handle your desire to see what items still need to be accomplished?  Or you
> are looking for an actual date change?
>

> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Sisyphus <jeremy.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > GQueues looks really atractive and promising. Congratulations.
>
> > I don't think this has been mentioned in the Forum yet.  If I create
> > an item in, say, the To Do Queue on, say, Monday but I don't get round
> > to completing it on Monday (ie I don't tick it off), is there any way
> > the item can "roll over" to appear in Google Calender on the Tuesday,
> > and so on?  This would be really great.
>
> > Please see the description of the "roll over" concept here if I
> > haven't been clear.  Old Palm software used to have this feature and
> > it was wonderful:  http://software.palminfocenter.com/product.asp?id=11031
>
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[Sisyphus]

Cameron - Thanks for getting back.

Making it a user option makes complete sense.

The date of the item would actually change at midnight and roll over
to the next day. That way the overdue item is always tied to the
"correct" day in the sense that if you didn't get round to doing
something important one day, you will see that item appear on the next
day. It doesn't get left behind in the days and weeks that slip by all
too quickly.

The "Overdue" Smart Queue is OK for what it does in GQueues but it has
no effect in Google Calendar. And it is the very good integration
with Google Calendar that makes GQueues attractive.

One other thing - if you could add this feature to GQueues, you would
have another unique "selling" point for this application. As far as I
am aware there is no current web application that has this very useful
feature. There have been plenty of requests to the Google team for
such a feature for Events/Tasks in Google Calendar but to date Google
has not come up with the goods.



On Dec 3, 7:40 pm, "Cameron (GQueues Team)" <came...@gqueues.com>
wrote:

> It's an interesting idea.  It would definitely need to be a setting a person
> could turn on/off, because I'm sure not all people want dates changed
> automatically.  Have you checked out the "Overdue" smart queue?  Would this
> handle your desire to see what items still need to be accomplished?  Or you
> are looking for an actual date change?
>

> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Sisyphus <jeremy.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > GQueues looks really atractive and promising. Congratulations.
>
> > I don't think this has been mentioned in the Forum yet.  If I create
> > an item in, say, the To Do Queue on, say, Monday but I don't get round
> > to completing it on Monday (ie I don't tick it off), is there any way
> > the item can "roll over" to appear in Google Calender on the Tuesday,
> > and so on?  This would be really great.
>
> > Please see the description of the "roll over" concept here if I
> > haven't been clear.  Old Palm software used to have this feature and
> > it was wonderful:  http://software.palminfocenter.com/product.asp?id=11031
>
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[Cameron (GQueues Team)]

Okay, I think I understand what your asking now and the value it would provide.  This might be a little tricky because everyone is on a different timezone, so I'll probably need to setup a background process that runs every hour (or half hour really), to find the user's who's time just turned midnight and rollover their items if they've activated this option.  

I'll add this to the list, but I probably won't get to it until after sub-tasks and tagging are implemented.

Thanks again for the suggestion!

-Cameron

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[Sisyphus]

Thanks for considering this.

On Dec 13, 4:44 am, "Cameron (GQueues Team)" <came...@gqueues.com>
wrote:

> Okay, I think I understand what your asking now and the value it would
> provide.  This might be a little tricky because everyone is on a different
> timezone, so I'll probably need to setup a background process that runs
> every hour (or half hour really), to find the user's who's time just turned
> midnight and rollover their items if they've activated this option.
>
> I'll add this to the list, but I probably won't get to it until after
> sub-tasks and tagging are implemented.
>
> Thanks again for the suggestion!
>
> -Cameron
>

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[mb01915]

Hopefully this feature would be optional.

On Dec 12, 11:44 pm, "Cameron (GQueues Team)" <came...@gqueues.com>
wrote:

> Okay, I think I understand what your asking now and the value it would
> provide.  This might be a little tricky because everyone is on a different
> timezone, so I'll probably need to setup a background process that runs
> every hour (or half hour really), to find the user's who's time just turned
> midnight and rollover their items if they've activated this option.
>
> I'll add this to the list, but I probably won't get to it until after
> sub-tasks and tagging are implemented.
>
> Thanks again for the suggestion!
>
> -Cameron
>

> > <gqueues%2Bunsu...@googlegroups.com<gqueues%252Buns...@googlegroups.com>

[Sisyphus]

Yes, I think the idea is to make it a user option.

[Jennifer Jones]

Has this been added to your product?  I am searching for a task manager, and an overdue roll over is the most important feature to me.  I am having a very hard time finding this feature.

[Jen L]

I would also love this feature! Currently, I go in to my Overdue queue and re-date everything. A counter of how many days an item has been 'rolled over' would also be nice.

[Lewis Dexter Litanzios]

Hey,

I used to do this when I used Tasks in Google Calendar - it's demoralising, be careful. I'm convinced it contributed to my nervous breakdown.

Read http://www.amazon.co.uk/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-free-Productivity/dp/0749922648 - if you date/schedule something it should get done on that day, or as close to. If you date something and constantly move the date it's pointless dating it in the first place.

Best regards,

[QQarlo]

Is there any progress regarding this topic? Seeing overdue task on the current day in the calendar would be an essential feature for me to prefere GQueues with repect to other programs.

[Alfred New]

At first I thought this would be a good idea, but after a little bit, I have decided I would not use it. A task that rolls over day after day will become part of the wallpaper.

 "if you date/schedule something it should get done on that day, or as close to. If you date something and constantly move the date it's pointless dating it in the first place."

Also, creating a Saved Search for Due Today with overdue tasks included, gives you the information you are looking for. I use

   dueDate <= [0 days]

Since Gqueues supports drag & drop in Gcalendar, as part of your planning process, you can easily drag incomplete items to the next day or somewhere else in the future. The check mark on completed tasks makes it easy to sort through them. I find this less tedious than changing the dates one by one, and often the next day isn't going to allow for all of the leftover tasks to be addressed.

What I would prefer to see added would be 2 buttons: PH for postpone 1 hour & PD for postpone 1 day.

This would be extremely useful.

Respectfully,

Alfred New

[David Miller]

I would really like to see this feature.  Totally agree it needs to be a setting on/off though.

Please google!

[John Eggen]

This is the one area that I really struggle with GQueues. In my previous solution I could use my PIM to show overdue tasks today but since the only way to really use GQueues is in 3rd party apps this limits an ability to keep overdue tasks "on my radar." Would be great to have an option feature to float overdue tasks to the current date for calendering purposes.

[Jennifer Jones]

Please! Please! PLEASE!  This would save me 5 hours of week!

[J.C.]

+1 on being able to easily move incomplete tasks ahead in the calendar. No doubt that if one needs to do this often that there is an underlying "issue" to work on. However, schedules and plans can be derailed by the unexpected and uncontrollable, especially in "volitile" environments. Having to manually re-date overdue tasks is very inconvenient. All of the above suggestions are great!

Another would be having the ability to multi-select tasks in the overdue queue (or any queue for that matter) to apply edits to multiple tasks at one time verses individually.

Great work Cameron and thanks for this awesome product!

[Michael Fedder]

+1 on this feature. For a school assignment application I worked on back in 2008, we created a feature called "bump assignments". This feature allowed teachers to push all assignments forward by x number of days to account for a change in schedule such as a snow day. Like other posters have said, adding this feature to GQueues would save us from having to re-enter all future assignments. 

Ideally, the "bump" concept would be implemented in addition to the auto rollover and be an optional, user-configured feature.

[J.C.]

+1 for me also!  The bump feature easily falls in line with the bulk editing requests.  Good example for me is today.  The cold weather created crisis management circumstances that caused me to abandon most of my planned schedule.  It would be nice to "bump" or better yet "bulk edit" tasks that are going to be continued.  It is time consuming and frustrating to have to manually edit each task one at a time...especially when I have to move today into tomorrow and so on until the entire schedule is replanned.   

Still, though, Gqueues IS the best time/task/project manager in existence!  Thanks Cameron!

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[Lily Torelli]

Adding +2 here on behalf of myself and my partner, both paying subscribers.. We do love GQueues but I have to say it's really starting to get disheartening adding support for requests that are now entering their 7th year with no progress or updates.. So I don't expect my encouragement for this feature to be implemented to mean much but I do have a task set for a month before my subscription renews to review how useful GQueues has been for us & if some of these features aren't implemented by then I'm hoping an alternative product will have them available. 2 x USD$25/year is not exactly small change when converted to AUD and we were hopeful our monetary support would lead to our voices being listened to a little more but this disappointingly doesn't seem to be the case just yet.

Here's hoping 2016 is the year GQueues gets the attention and care it deserves because it could very easily become the number 1 task manager if the development was more active and user base suggestions were collated/entered into the roadmap.

[Nadya De Angelis]

I can't agree more. No progress, no updates, no attention to what paid customers REALLY want. 

[Kenneth Obel]

Agree. Roll-over option would be nice.

[Luis Fernando Robledano Esteban]

Hi Cameron, notice that makes a lot of sense if the Task is a "Planned-on"-task, but not if it is a "Due-on"-tasks. I just posted in the forum a comment related to the Due vs. Planned dates.