Recurring tasks improvements

[anandsnair-java]

Have a way to defer threshold date when setting recurring tasks. This can be done by: Step 1: Add a setting to enable recurring threshold date Step 2: Add option to choose default number of days between threshold and due dates. Starting from 0 to whichever is apt.

[mpcjanssen]

@Alphalpha007 one could argue whether a recurred task needs a threshold date at all, because this is very single tasks specific. That being said, I think the default should be to update the threshold date by the recurrence amount and make other scenarios available from Lua.

[anandsnair-java]

Can you elaborate on what you meant by "single tasks specific"? I use threshold date to hide tasks that are irrelevant at present. If I have a task like "take out trash", I'd rather only see it on the day I'm supposed to do it.

[mpcjanssen]

@Alphalpha007 I mean that the fact that task A started at date X doesn't necessarily mean that the recurred task B starts at time X+Y

[djibux]

I would love a way to defer tasks by adding a number of days to their threshold date.

Let me explain:

• I have a set of tasks recurring every month (rec:+4w), organized so that every weekend I have a task. Let's say first weekend is task A, second weekend is task B, then C, then D, and back to A after a month.
• Now, from time to time, I want to skip a weekend, and delay every task by a week. (Simply skipping the task set for the weekend wouldn't work as it means I wouldn't get to do it at all during the month). So, currently, I manually select each task and set the new threshold date a week further than the original. That means four manual updates… I would prefer to be able to select all tasks and add 1 week to all their threshold date.

I hope that's understandable…