search

konradrenner / kolabnotes-android

Note taking app with integrated Kolab sync
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
68 stars 17 forks source link

Reminders for notes #132

Open konradrenner opened 8 years ago

konradrenner commented 8 years ago

Implement the possibilty to create reminders for notes. It would be also great if the reminders can be synced. I don't know at the moment if the Kolab format has a possiblity to sync reminders for different groupware elements (notes). So this would be interessting.

But for the junior job part of this issue: it would be sufficient to create reminders in the app. The sync woul be the second part

konradrenner commented 7 years ago

For the sync, maybe it is possible to use the x-custom field of the note. But this has to be checked with someone of the Kolab devs, if this would be allowed

konradrenner commented 7 years ago

I have posted a reference to this issue in the Kolab community hub, if there is a official way to sync reminders, I will implement it: https://kolab.org/hub/topic/128/feature-request-email-reminders-for-tasks-events/3

alecpl commented 7 years ago

How would you set a reminder for something that has no date/time specified? A Note with date/time is not a Note, but a Task ;)

No, Kolab format does not specify reminders for Notes. ActiveSync protocol also does not. In my opinion it does not make sense.

konradrenner commented 7 years ago

@alecpl I know that the format does not specify anything, this is the reason why no development is started for this issue ;-)

The main goal of this issue is the possibilty to create reminders and link them to a note. IMHO reminders are not equal to tasks. A task is something "heavyweight", depending on the "definition of done" a task can have more than one thing to do and has a deadline. A reminder is just a notification for something, but I don't have necesssary something to do and has no deadline, it is just an information about something you should not forget.

IBM Notes for example has an own groupware object called reminders, the main difference to tasks is, that they don't have any date/time when they must be finished.

For my personal use, I don't need this issue implemented because I use actually tasks also as reminders, but a user of the app told me that such a feature would be nice.