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action.manager

Totally agree.

In fact, this issue has been raised already (at least twice):

https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/11930/

https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/10546/

Posted 2 years ago

matthauger,
Thanks for your feedback!

Posted 2 years ago

++1 on this issue, I'm pretty sure I've voiced this over a year ago on the forums. Haven't been using RTM much since but am considering coming back, but this issue seems to have received no attention for some reason.

this is how i would like to see my list sorted by default:

1. due date with specific time (doesn't matter priority)
2. due date no time has priority
3. due date no time no priority
4. no due date but has priority
5. no due date no priority

right now for me to have it sort the way I want... I have to input due date (doesn't matter even if I input time then), and then go back and input priority, and have RTM sort by due date, then priority.

In the end this might be 1 of 2 major reasons why I've abandoned all the todo apps and gtd apps i've ever tried because when the lists get long, it takes more effort to figure out what i should do next, & I know if we are all very tedious with our input of tasks, then we might solve the problem, but then it is more tedious and much more effort to input the task and again leads to abandonment....counter intuitive.

point being these things need to be quick, at a glance, intuitive, both at inputing, and at reviewing

...still looking for perfect app...

Posted 2 years ago

matthauger

Thanks for the +1s, kmninbox and action.manager. Yeah, I noticed the earlier threads, but the ones I found had all been closed.

Thought the conversation should be ongoing.

Posted 2 years ago

Different levels of sorting would be great :)!

Posted 2 years ago

alphen

Time critical tasks first.

Posted 1 year ago

Agreed - time critical task first.

Posted 1 year ago

If we could have a SmartSort (kind of like SmartLists) that lets the user specify the sort order, then that would be most flexible and powerful. For instance, I generally sort by due date and then priority (with time specific on a given day higher up than anytime on a given day) but occasionally I would like to sort by priority and then due date/time and other times I'd like to sort by number of times postponed.

Posted 1 year ago

lapczynski

1. due date with specific time (doesn't matter priority)
2. due date no time has priority
3. due date no time no priority
4. no due date but has priority
5. no due date no priority

I totally agree.

Posted 1 year ago

waldir.leoncio

so many nice ideas in this forum, and some of them (like this one) seem pretty easy to implement. Not to mention they are very popular. So why don't the development team implement it? Where are you guys?

Posted 1 year ago

Yep yep yep!

Posted 1 year ago

m_hersee

+1

Posted 1 year ago

repiotraschke

+1 for sure. it does seem very counterintuitive to have the tasks that could be done any time that day show up first.

Posted 1 year ago

aka178

-1 There should be an option to put tasks with due date to the END of list. At the moment I see no way to put it behind. All my due tasks (mostly check and control of other people items) should be done exactly at the specified time, or later BUT NOT EARLIER. So I would prefer to have normal flow of daily todo, so timed tasks would not spoil my daily todo list. Timed tasks should just pop up at the required time.

Posted 10 months ago

bklynlauraann

If I'm understanding this thread correctly, YES! I totally agree and this may be a deal breaker for me. I need to see the tasks in the order I want sometimes by when I can get them done in the day as well as by priority. So I'm starting to do double work, putting tasks on my google calendar when I can do them. When I used a spread sheet I would have priority 1a,b,c,d etc. Because for me, everything is priority 1 due today LOL.

Posted 10 months ago

ernfors

+1

Posted 6 months ago

cshartmann

Agree. A due date (no time) should be treated as due at midnight of the date specified.

Posted 4 months ago

gjagils

+1

Posted 3 weeks ago

tyler.szabo

From looking at the JS it looks like a pain to add.

If you add 'time_due && '0' || '1'" before "due_date" in sortFields you get all items with an exact time first (including items with an exact time tomorrow) sorting first.

Without a reasonably costly change you can only extract one property from a task object per sort field, so combining the two properties would require rewriting the sort logic, or adding a task property.

The way I like best would be to change the sort logic:
1. Have entriesSort contain references to the appropriate hashMap item, rather than copies of the UI items.
2. do entriesSort.sort(XYZ) where XYZ is a function reference to the desired compatator (set the reference in the same place that sortFields is presently set)
3. BAM! Slightly richer sorting, and avoiding a call to eval.

Posted 11 days ago