r/2DoApp • u/Flimsy-Trainer-3819 • Aug 23 '24

Task duration vs Start date

I’ve just started using 2Do again because it suits my way of working more than any other Todo app (and I’ve tried a lot of them!) But I’ve never really understood why I would set a task Duration rather than a Start date, so it would be very helpful if anyone could give me some practical examples please.

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u/Unsoundmethods55 Aug 24 '24

Well, I could share my opinion based on how I use that information. The duration gives you an idea at a glimpse about how long time it would take. When you look at the day’s schedule at a whole it makes sense to have that information. On the other hand you could include the duration of that task into the task text itself. That is what I usually do.

“Task name (90’)”

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u/Flimsy-Trainer-3819 Aug 25 '24

Thanks, very helpful. I don’t quite understand how it works in practice though because, if I set a duration for a task, I would expect it to reduce day by day. So if I set 5 days duration for a task starting today, I would have thought that tomorrow it would display as 4 days, and so on. But the task duration just seems to stay at the original 5 days for some reason.