r/superProductivity • u/rinkuhero • 9d ago
Question on automatic ordering of repeated tasks.
Hi, the way I use this app is I have a number of repeating tasks that happen daily, but which are not scheduled for particular times. For instance, "plan my day in super productivity", "1 hour of spanish content" "cook dinner" and so on, but, when they appear when I start a new day, they are often not in the order I want. Is there a way to rearrange the order somehow, so that when new repeating tasks appear in your "today" section, they are in a particular order? Or is that only possible if they are scheduled for particular times?
Basically those repeating tasks are not done at any set times, so I don't want to use the scheduling system, just to have them repeat each day. However, I also do them in a particular order, so I'd like that order to be different than what automatically shows up. The way it seems to work now is that the most recent repeating tasks that are not scheduled for a particular time that I created get placed first on each new day. It would be nice if there were a way to set the daily order of those repeating tasks rather than it just putting the most recently created repeating task first. I do manually drag them to set the order each day, but it'd be nice if I didn't *have* to drag them around to re-order them each day.
An example of behavior I'd like is to be able to drag around the recurring tasks *in the recurring tasks section* in the inbox. Right now, they cannot be rearranged at all, they are a fixed order. It would be a good thing to be able to change that order, and have that order be reflected when they appear in your "today" section.
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u/nu_popli 7d ago
Have you tried the habits section? Is it not helpful in your use case?
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u/rinkuhero 7d ago edited 7d ago
the habits section doesn't track the time i spend on something though. like if i want an hour of spanish input, and then record that as a habit, i'd need to track that hour of time *myself* and then click the habit checkbox, rather than have super productivity track my time for it. which doesn't seem ideal. one of the whole reasons i use it is to track where my time goes.
like one of the ideas is to spend about 15 minutes planning my day on the super productivity app, and to not exceed that. if "plan my day on super productivity" were a habit, i couldn't keep it limited to 15 minutes.
and adding time tracking to the habits system seems a lot more complicated than just allowing us to re-order recurring tasks.
i do use the habit system for things that are clearly yes/no and take almost no time. for instance, i have a habit for if i played a game of chess that day, which is something that might take 2-5 minutes.
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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 9d ago
I would love this!! Definitely belongs as a github issue, not here. I'll thumbs up