Calendar View, events and hard vs soft deadlines

[Ian F]

Hi.

Now that Andrey has developed a Calendar View for iOS (a fantastic feature) and is possibly working on one for Windows and Android, I would like to add my 2¢ and invite everyone to give their own feedback. I created a related feature request on UserVoice but still am not 100% sure if this is the right way to go.

I think it would be useful to be able to create or mark a task as an "event" (as we do with folders and projects) and to differentiate between hard and soft due dates and start dates. The Computed-Score algorithm should consider these factors by applying higher weights to hard due dates and events (and also to effort, min time & dependencies).

If we are faced with an externally imposed deadline or a date that we simply must have something done by, then that is a "hard" due date. A "soft" due date, on the other hand, could be an aspirational date of our own choosing to either plan our activity or even to push ourselves to get something done. If we miss a soft due date, it isn't that big a deal, but if we miss a hard due date then the task is rendered irrelevant.

Similarly, a "hard" start date means we can only do a task after that date and not before (like having a dependency on a date rather than another task). A "soft" start date could mean that we are simply setting a reasonable lead time for a task in order to avoid being overwhelmed with future tasks in our list of currently active tasks.

Dwight suggested using the start date as a soft due date, however, that would not work unless you abandon the built-in Active and Available Tasks filters completely and use advanced filtering instead. If we were to take that approach, tasks we could be working on now but have a future start date would be excluded by the Active and Available Tasks filters.

What do you think?

Here's my attempt at a view called "Upcoming Events" (which doesn't use the Active Tasks filter). Ideally, I would like to be able to create a filter rule that says that the Start Date and the Due Date are on the same day (or within x hours or days of each other). Unfortunately there are no filter rule functions that accept two or more fields) :

Ian.

[robisme (Olivier R)]

I very like the idea of marking a task as an event, and use it to manager due date or dependency.

That's why I have long campaigned for integration of agenda (whatever the way, preferably sync Google Calendar) in order to make such a "event task" dynamic;

I mean : if the date has changed in the agenda, it automaticallyit impacts all the tasks that depended on it.

Olivier