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Hi mattrz,
It's not currently possible to sort by date added, sorry.

You are able to see the Added date by using one of the "added" search operators, though. If you search for addedWithin:"7 days", for example, you'll be able to see the date each of those tasks was added.

Thanks for your feedback on this sorting option!

Posted 6 months ago

mgercke

Maybe Bob can think about how RTM could visualize a task's age.
GTD proposes not to put a due date to a task that essentially has no due date.
Still, the "older" a task is, the more probable that somebody is going to ask why this task wasn't fulfilled (job situation).
On the other hand, I want to know why I have a special task in a list when I'm not acting on it for x days/weeks/months.
I have many tasks that people are waiting for, but that don't have a due date.
Knowing that I have the task "review document x" that is already 30 days old is intersting compared to a task that was just added yesterday.
I'm not sure how this could be accomplished, but the priorities (1,2,3) work with colors.
Maybe Bob comes up with a neat idea.

Posted 4 months ago

Just to support mattrz: I am also missing the "date added" option. I enter the "date added" as a note to the task each time. This is quite annoying and slows things up considerably. Isn' t there some quick and dirty solution to have the "date added" registered automatically? If you can search for it, it is already there somewhere. I would just like to be able to see it without searching.

Posted 8 weeks ago

Hi claudia.walter,
While it's not currently possible to have the Added date show on all your lists automatically, one trick may be to create a Smart List just for this purpose. For example, try searching for the following:

addedBefore:tomorrow

This will show all your tasks, and their Added dates. You could then save this as a Smart List and refer to it when you need to see Added dates. Changing the sorting of the list may help find tasks more quickly.

Posted 8 weeks ago

nicoledb

Although helpful, this only works in the web-interface. On iOS-devices doing this search doesn't show you the actual Added dates, only the tasks that were added in the specified time-frame.

I second the request for being able to filter/sort/search on Added dates across platforms. And while you're at it, it would be very helpful to have similar functionality for Changed dates, to see when was the last time I touched a task because I did some work on it, or have my list sort on the date I last changed a task.

Posted 3 weeks ago