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you mean that the priority would increase automatically the nearer the due date is?

Posted 5 years ago

ranbarton

Linickx - this thread may be of interest:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/1992/

Posted 5 years ago

Actually, I think what would help you might be a 'start date'.

When creating the credit card task, you give it a 'start date' of one week before the due date, and a priority of 1. Then, when you are crafting your smart lists, one of the filters included is to only show 'active' tasks, i.e. tasks that have passed their 'start date'. By default, the 'start date' would be the date of entry, but it doesn't have to be.

For more info, I have requested that feature here:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2177/

Posted 5 years ago

I think that priorities and due dates should remain as separate and distinct concepts. They have different meanings and serve different purposes. If you want to see things that are due soon, you can search for things that are due soon. Having two distinct concepts allows more granularity, for example: Show me the things that are a high priority whenever they are due, Show me the things that are due soon whatever priority they are, OR Show me the things that are both due soon and a high priority.

Posted 2 years ago

This is a great idea because of the way RTM's sorting options operate. If I want to sort things by priority, I want to see the high priority things that are due now or never. But I don't want to see things that are due months from now that WILL have a high priority at that time (like call my mom on her birthday). So, for the "call my mom" items, it would be nice to set an auto-priority.

To make it more simple for the coders, there could be some set auto-priority rule: make the task !1 within 5 days of due date. That would probably work most of the time for everyone.

Posted 1 year ago

igorrs

I handle the "credit card bill" problem by setting the due date for some days before the real deadline (making sure the bill will already be available by that date, of course).
Start dates could be useful here also, as @jsellen pointed out.
I don't like to use priorities together with dates. I did that for a long time and my task manager was unmanageable. Now that I'm only setting priorities for tasks without due dates, I'm much happier and organized. :)

Posted 1 year ago

This is not a good idea...priority and due date are two very different things.

Posted 11 months ago