Configurable dates in UI

[aubreyz]

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🔖 Feature description

We have a number of areas in which dates can be selected via a calendar, or from a list (the postpone button).

It would be great if these could be user configurable. For example some users might want to:

a) Reschedule to today b) Reschedule to a very distant date like 3 years, whereas others may have no use for this c) Reschedule to a particular date known only to the user (after I have returned from my holiday)

✔️ Solution

So it would be great to have a list of such dates in the dialog, as well as via the postpone button. Perhaps a set of 8 or so dates in the settings that can be self configured as either exact or relative dates , some of which could be "Today", "Tomorrow", 2024-06-20, +2w, +120d.

To keep it simple it could have only exact dates and a relative number of days (not weeks, months or years). As possible icing on the cake these could be optionally named (after my birthday).

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[claremacrae]

I think there is also a separate suggestion for named dates...

This is a nice idea but is also a lot of work. As such, I would make it a low priority.

[claremacrae]

See also #2341 - from your good self, I think :-)

[claremacrae]

I've removed 'Including Today' from the description - as adding Today would be a separate smaller change.

[claremacrae]

I've managed to add Today and Tomorrow to the Postpone menu, and just released it in Tasks 5.6.0