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benrhughes / todotxt.net

An implementation of todo.txt for Windows using the .NET framework
http://benrhughes.github.io/todotxt.net/
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Start/threshold date as t:YYYY-MM-DD #224

Closed aruizsan closed 9 years ago

aruizsan commented 10 years ago

Hi. I'm guessing if it is possible to add a new feature for manage start dates as definied here: https://github.com/bram85/todo.txt-tools/wiki http://mpcjanssen.nl/doc/simpletask/

I'm thinking about.. 1) set start dates a (it should simmilar to "set due date" menu) 2) hide future tasks ( start date >today)

It would be so usefull for 1MTD/MYN.

Thanks.

benrhughes commented 10 years ago

Hi, Unless it becomes part of the official spec, or becomes a wildly popular extension for todo.txt, we're unlikely to add functionality that modifies the todo.txt format.

Sorry about that,

Ben On 30 May 2014 00:02, "aruizsan" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi. I'm guessing if it is possible to add a new feature for manage start dates as definied here: https://github.com/bram85/todo.txt-tools/wiki http://mpcjanssen.nl/doc/simpletask/

I'm thinking about.. 1) set start dates a (it should simmilar to "set due date" menu) 2) hide future tasks ( start date >today)

It would be so usefull for 1MTD/MYN.

Thanks.

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aruizsan commented 10 years ago

Ben, thanks for your response. You don't need to say sorry. You have a great application!

I know that it does'nt became part of the official spec, but I understand that it's defined like an add-on.

I saw this for firt time in the client created by Gina Trapani:

https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/wiki/Todo.sh-Add-on-Directory#futuretasks

Also, I don't know if it's popular or not, but I can see that some apps (source: http://todotxt.com/) are using this feature for manage future actions:

+todo.txt-cli +SimpleTask: http://mpcjanssen.nl/doc/simpletask/ +QTodoTxt: https://github.com/mNantern/QTodoTxt/pull/30 +vim-todo.txt-plugin: https://github.com/sjurgemeyer/vim-todo.txt-plugin

Thanks again for your response.

paullemmens commented 10 years ago

I understand your preference towards keeping close to the original spec. However, given that a lot of people use various software and tools to manager their todo.txt (as saw you mention that somewhere else), would it then be at least possible to use filters and/or a menu thingy to "hide future tasks"?

And, please read 'possible' as in, would you see the relevancy of my suggestion/idea as higher than actually providing UI tools to add and change these threshold/future dates?

mpcjanssen commented 10 years ago

Note that the t:YYYY-MM-DD doesn't modify the todo.txt format. It uses the specified way of adding metadata (see https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/wiki/The-Todo.txt-Format#add-on-file-format-definitions) That being said I would love if this is included as well.