It should be possible to base the next recurrence of an event on the time it was done

[schemar]

It should be possible to base the next recurrence of an event on the time the original event was done - instead of the time the original event was scheduled.

Todoist supports that with the ! operator (i.e. using every! instead of every). We could do the same.

[Skefflock]

Hello.
Thanks for such a great plugin.

My question is: what I see is a bit opposite of what you described in this issue. Exactly behavior I need is when a task recurrence counts its period from the original due date. But what I get is the alternative variant, where task is recurring base on the done date.

The screenshot below would make even more mess.

No matter if due+period is less or greater than today, it still counts from the done date (which is always today)

Have I found some bug or I am I doing anything wrong to get the expected result?

[schemar]

Hmm, good point. Thank you for reporting this. Which version of Tasks do you use?

[Skefflock]

1.2.0. The latest.

[schemar]

Thank you. I opened #261 as a separate issue to track the bug.

[andtheWings]

+1
To remove ambiguity, perhaps the task modal could ask you to check whether you want recurrence calculated from last due date or last completion date. One of these two options would have a parenthetical saying (default). Then in the Tasks Plugin menu, the user can mark which they want to be the default behavior.

P.S. This plugin is really cool! Thanks for developing it!

[stixard]

+1 for this request

[therden]

@schemar I totally understand that you don't have time to work on this now.

If and when you do, I'd love to see support added for either

• a flag to indicate whether a particular recurrence rule is to operate "by due date", "by done date", "latest of due or done date", or
• (if Dataview-style fieldnames:: triggers are ever supported in place of emoji triggers) different types of recurrence rule fields (like bydue::, bydone::, bylatest::).

[pcause]

I've seen the notion of a a strict recurrence. if you put a date of 2 weeks it recurs every 2 weeks from completion. if you have a strict recurrence when completed it would be scheduled 2 weeks from the due date. I strict occurrence is indicated by having a + in front of the date in todo.txt format. so rec:2w is a recurrence from complete and rec:+2w is a recurrence from original due date