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Yes, indeedy. I've got too many tasks on the go, so too many land up being postponed quite a few times.

Posted at 1:54pm on February 17, 2007

True. Also helpful for postponing an overdue task until tomorrow instead of today.

Posted at 12:45am on February 18, 2007

this would be good for skipping over weekends too. i have projects at work that if i don't finish friday, i want to postpone to monday.

Posted at 8:29pm on February 21, 2007

viscouse

Wow. Old topic :)
I'd like to put a plug in for this as well. I aggregate certain tasks and do them on the weekend. I made a spreadsheet that is a todo list that basically collects todos due within the next week, and lists them as tasks for the weekend, cause no todo list could do that.

It would be great to postpone a task for the weekend, or even yet, have a setting that shows for that task (round due date to the next weekend).

Posted at 1:29pm on December 12, 2007

rajjan

Maybe you could tag them with weekend and then have a smartlist searching for tag:weekend AND dueBefore:"1 week of today" or similar?

Posted at 2:12pm on December 12, 2007

viscouse

rajjan, thank you very much. That is an excellent idea!

I tried it and think it works well. I think a little tweaking is in order, but it does search properly though. Your smartlist works well, and captures exactly what I asked for.

Posted at 3:20pm on December 12, 2007

ranbarton

I would suggest adding OR due:Saturday OR due:Sunday to your search to catch anything coming due this weekend as well. I've had a weekend search (using just those terms) for a while, and it's a great way to look ahead and see what's planned for the weekend ahead.

Posted at 5:16pm on December 12, 2007

viscouse

I tweaked it a little to say tag:weekend AND dueBefore:Monday

Seemed cleaner than tag:weekend AND dueBefore:"1 week of today" OR due:Saturday OR due:Sunday

Honestly, I don't know which I like better. One says look a week ahead, and perhaps get a jump on upcoming stuff regardless of weekend, one is just looking at what's due/overdue before Monday.

Have to try them out.

Posted at 8:18pm on December 12, 2007

I just want to say this feature is still needed. I often postpone things for 3 days or a week or more.

Posted at 3:39pm on May 1, 2008

Yes, this feature is definitely still needed.

Maybe there could be a postpone button with default setting (e.g. one day, one working day, one hour), and then an optional drop-down menu on a sub-button (I don't know what these are actually called, but I'm thinking similar to the back button on most browsers), which gives you other options (one hour, one day, three days, one week, other, until [date], etc).

It would mean that you wouldn't necessarily have to click more than once (for default settings), and 'p' would still postpone by your default time.

I hate when I get excited about things that don't even exist (yet!). ^_^

Posted at 7:33am on October 17, 2008

mariano.benitez

+1

Posted at 8:48pm on March 13, 2009

This issue has been going on for ages, I also would like to be able to postpone to a date or by several days
RTM - have you got a response for us?

Posted at 8:20am on May 14, 2009

krissiegel

I would love this as well. Make it a very simple and easy interface though as I don't want to go through too many dialogs to do this.

Posted at 3:35am on May 17, 2009

Yes this is an important feature to add. Outlook lets you "right click" and select from a drop down (tomorrow, this week, next week, etc.) Its one of the features making it difficult for me to make the jump to rtm.

Posted at 7:03pm on June 18, 2009

cchez

+1

Posted at 12:07am on September 5, 2009

+1.

There should be an option to postpone for an amount of time (like a 1 week or 3 months) and until a given date (with a pop-up calendar)

Posted at 3:40am on October 28, 2009

ranbarton

What would be the difference between postponing a task 3 months and simply changing its due date back by 3 months?

Posted at 1:04am on October 31, 2009

fireweed

Pleaase can we have the oppositte of postpone as well - see :http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/8710/

Posted at 9:50am on November 1, 2009