Due date for tasks (separate from start date)
When Start Date is useful:
- Scheduling a task on the calendar
When Due Date is useful:
- Calculating task score
- Automatically assigning urgent (if task is due in one to three days as explained in blog)
i.e. I have a task that is due by Sunday and it's currently Monday of that week. I create the task in a note, but can't assign Sunday as the date in Amplenote since it will schedule that task for Sunday on my calendar. Instead, I would like a way to say that task is DUE on Sunday and then go to my calendar and assign the task's start date at a free time during which I can complete it. If I did not complete it, I can simply find another time before Sunday to get the task done.
Working with tasks in Amplenote is beautiful, but this one feature makes it feel incomplete without this feature. It's also one of the main aspects I loved about Things 3.
Comments: 6
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29 Jun, '22
Lucian AdminHey Revanth! Thanks for this suggestion!
A good workaround in the meantime is to consider two "levels" of tasks. At the first level, there are tasks that have deadlines - setting a Start Date for a task like this one means it is *due* at that time. These tasks can go into a separate note/separate tag/separate Task Domain to make it easy to filter on.
The second level of tasks can be "time-blocking tasks". Setting a start date for a task in this category merely means you are scheduling a work session. These tasks can go in different notes/tags/domains to keep them separate from Deadline Tasks.
Let me know if this makes sense. -
05 Aug, '22
JocelynThis is really essential. I need to be able to schedule a task on a day I have the time and resources (Start Date) even though it also has a firm deadline (Due Date--date past which bad things happen if undone). I have been only able to use Things for task management because so few apps get this right.
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14 Sep, '22
Caleb*This is a must-have for students like me.* I've been trying to track my assignments in Todoist, my notes/plans in Notion, and my schedule in Google Calendar, but seeing that I could do all three in one app blew my mind -- until I tried to plan my week and each assignment I scheduled to work on reset its "due date". The day(s) I schedule to work on an assignment (start date), the day it needs to be completed by (due date), and the day it actually gets done (completion date) are each VERY different things if I'm mangaging my time well. The workaround Lucian suggested is possible, but a lot of extra work, especially since hierarchy in task view is still pending as well. (Thanks for planning that!)
*Adding a due date allows you to quantify urgency* (for the Task Score); a task doesn't become more urgent when you decide to work on it sooner, it becomes more urgent the closer you get to the deadline. Tasks without a due date can still get some constant score bonus for "urgent" priority. -
15 Nov, '22
Sami Pajufind it strange not to have due dates / deadlines in task attributes. As I'd imagine it to help a lot in calculating the Task Score if you know 1) How long a task is going to take, 2) What is the latest date it needs to be done, and 3) When should you start working on it - especially helpful and useful in creative work, where more pondering time often leads to better ideas. Start date can also be used to compensate poor estimates of how long it takes to get something done. The more uncertainty there is, the earlier the start date should be.
I think this would be especially helpful with bigger tasks that take multiple days to complete (e.g. preparing a big presentation): In these cases the task needs to be rescheduled multiple times, changing the start date. However, if it also had a due date, then it would make sense for Task Score to also become higher the closer it gets to that deadline. (1/) -
15 Nov, '22
Sami PajuAnd not all tasks have a due date. Or necessarily even a start date if they're fairly small, and just having a deadline is enough. Which is why I think for prioritization it would make sense to use both/either/neither depending on situation and the task at hand.
My real worry is that if I start to use Amplenote the way I now use Todoist for all kinds of tasks, work and personal, the Tasks view will become so cluttered that something is going to get overlooked, a deadline is going to be missed, or a promise is going to be broken. And the longer the list, or the more you have to check different notes and filters, the more time it takes to do daily or weekly planning. Imagine: 10-20 tasks on the list, all fairly big (1h+ or more), only 1-2 have a pressing deadline. Yet you want to have all those tasks visible (maybe they're more long-term inportant ideas that get worked at a slow pace). (2/3) -
15 Nov, '22
Sami PajuThis worry is exacerbated by Task Score not seeming to take into account at all if a task was planned for an earlier day but is still undone (I tried changing an uncompleted task with a past start date to an even earlier start date, and Task Score did not change). (3/3)