others may want to use for lists where you want everything to go away.

so again - features could be added on top of google features, that don't change underlying model. Such as hide/show finished tasks tasks. Only show deleted tasks ( i think google has this )

set all finished to unfinshed…

Then, delete, purge or trash, could also be there, to match or best match as API allows the google task model.

I'm not saying show or hide is the best way. I happen to prefer either, depending on the situation.

I strongly prefer option #2, as it's no great loss if I can't always clear, but if I can't find my completed tasks, I'm in trouble

Now imagine that you completed three tasks on GeeTasks without syncing, then you completed two tasks in Google's Web site and then you sync GeeTasks. What you expect to happen is that the three tasks are cleared and the other two are not, but what will happen is that all five will be cleared. There is no way to preserve both offline functionality and "clear" functionality.

Another problem is that you might have completed 4 tasks in GeeTasks, cleared them and then completed five more tasks. I would have to be careful to replay those operations in the exact order, otherwise all of them will end up cleared - this is not something I currently do and it will be a lot more work.

So there are three options here:

1. Ignore the problem above, and deal with irate people who are missing their "cleared" tasks
2. Make clear only work when you're online so you clearly see what is it that you are clearing.
3. Make "clear" on GeeTasks move tasks to separate "Past accomplishments" list. The problem here is that it will put all tasks from all lists into a single bucket - some people like to keep they accomplished tasks per list.

I'm leaning towards the second option.

This is the first missing feature new users will find in the lite version. Google's "Clear Completed Tasks" is a must-have. GeeTasks can hide completed tasks locally after queuing the request with Google if it's a sync timing issue.

Here's my GeeTasks first impression:
1. Create task
2. Mark task as done
3. ?? Why is it still on my to-do list?

If you're like me and have a pre-existing google task list that is heavily used, the lack of a way to auto-hide completed tasks is painfully obvious in the first 10 seconds of trying to use the app.

Love it otherwise, very nice & look forward to updates.

SC

But yeah, that might be a good idea - move them to a hidden list and then "clear" that list. I'll look into that.

Thanks for replying, and I hope you'll have the time to fix that, because I think it's an important issue, and it can be confusing for people who expect Purge to hide completed tasks.

I could have missed something in the undocumented APIs but I don't have much time to dig deeper right now.

On the other hand, "Purge" in GeeTasks moves the completed tasks to the trash, where we might have all kinds of wrong/blank/misspelled entries that we don't want to see or remember anymore.
And I'm not even sure if the trash gets emptied automatically after a specific number of days or not, but in any case, the trash is the trash, and my completed tasks deserve better than that, especially if I want to remember the day I quit smoking, or the day I bought GeeTasks :)

I think the behaviour of "Clear Completed Tasks" makes more sense, and I hope you'll consider it.