Schedule Tasks - "Do" Dates vs "Due" Dates
Amie Hein
It would be very helpful to have a drag and drop scheduler where you can move tasks around for when you PLAN to do them, without it changing the actual due date. Many project management software help us manage everything that needs to be done, but they're lacking in the ability for us to actually SCHEDULE the work to be done (as they are reliant on due dates instead.) Nobody wants to work on a task the day it is actually due, way too stressful lol. Bonus would be if when on the scheduler a task is going to be overdue based on the date you plan to do it, that it becomes highlighted in some way so you know it is past due. And a side column to list all tasks that you don't actually have scheduled "to do" yet. Would be so helpful in planning schedules.
Amie Hein
Would love to see this request bumped! Or the option to have a date as a custom field as a workaround?
Sunil Gulati
PePeter,ter a well known Productivity guru, has to say this for this upcoming feature in Todoist and Things 3
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Most to-do apps only let you set one date for a to-do.
Let’s say you need to send client X an offer sheet by Friday. When you add the to-do to your task manager, what do you set the date to?
Your instinct might say, “Friday”. But if you do that, the app won’t remind you to prepare the offer sheet until the day you need to send it. That’s sub-optimal, to say the least.
Let’s say it would be ideal to start preparing the offer sheet on Wednesday. You could then set the to-do’s date to Wednesday—but you’d have to manually remember what the true deadline is. That’s not so bad for one task, but if you have dozens of tasks with deadlines, chances are some things will slip through the cracks.
To solve this, some to-do apps—like Things 3—let you set two dates on any given to-do. The first is a “do” date. It’s also known as the “start” date. And in Things 3, it’s called the “when” date, because it represents when you’re planning to do this task. The second date is the “due” date or the (hard) deadline. It’s the date by which you absolutely must finish this task, or there will be serious negative consequences.
I highly recommend that you use a to-do app that makes this distinction. Todoist has long been an amazing app, but its lack of support for do vs. due dates has required some workarounds. Soon, that will change!
Todoist has been developing very fast in the past few years and, as we’re seeing here, it will get even better in the future. That makes this a particularly good time to organize your life with Todoist.
Connor S.
This is the feature I would like to see the most on this platform. Especially for individuals (or uni students such as myself) just using it as a scheduler for tasks, not being able to set times to work on something without necessarily completing it is a big drawback of this application. The button could be "Schedule Work Session" or something of the sort. Also would be nice to tie tasks to calendar events (but this would pretty much only be useful for uni students like me who have work due for a particular class).
Amie Hein
Please share to your connections and ask for them to upvote this everyone so we can get back into a trending request :)
Max
Yeah, I can't even use the schedule area because it adds or changes the due date on tasks. Definitely should have a Deadline property that doesn't change when working on it. I also have tasks that require multiple work sessions, but you can't schedule more than one block of time...
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Ann-Riley Caldwell
YES - Need to know when something is Actually DUE but be able to work on it on various days as a TO DO item prior to that
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Jason H
Yes, please. A start date and a due date are helpful for planning (or the ability to create a custom field)
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Roni Cohen
Please add
Amie Hein
To me, this is what every Task Manager is missing :)
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