I'm having issues with the sorting of tasks. For some reason, when I choose edit and try to drag a task into a new position, it snaps back to it's original position. This seems to only happen for tasks created on my iPhone. Other tasks (created on my computer) can be moved to a new position without any issues. Am I missing something?
Actually, sorting doesn't seem to work with any of the tasks in my list. It worked earlier today, which is strange.
It would help if you sent me a screenshot pointing out which task you were trying to drag to which place.
Absent that I can make a guess - you are probably trying to drag a task inside itself, that is into one of its subtasks, which is not allowed as it just doesn't make sense. Note that Google will not let you do that either.
Consider this example:
Item "Wife's birthday" can not be dragged under "Come up with gift", "Restaurant" or "Flowers" because then it would become a sub-task of itself! however it can be dragged to become a subtask of "Change Oil in Prius".
Hello
I just loaded this and really like it. In trying to sort (under edit) tasks within one day (sorted by group:date), the tasks bounce back to some predetermined order (not sure what that is). It would be great if I can look at my days worth of tasks and move some up and some down to allow me to do my own prioritization.
Thanks.
Neil
That should actually work if I understand you correctly…
Here are the instructions on how it should work:
If you follow these steps and it doesn't let you move tasks please contact me via support page so that I can take a closer look.
Thanks.
Thanks for the quick response. Perhaps I wasn't very clear. The instructions you list work. I am able to move items to and from different dates. What I was hoping to do was to reorder some of the tasks for a given date. For example, I may have eight items to do today. When I look at this list of tasks for this particular day, I would like to edit the order in which they appear within that date. IE. move item six to the top of this list and/or item one to the bottom within this same day. This allows me to informally prioritize the tasks for the given day.
Not sure if this is possible but it would be very useful for me.
Thanks again.
Neil
Have you seen my reply right below this one?
Ow, ow, ow! I see what you mean now. The tasks within single date can not be reordered - that's what you are saying, right?
Yeah, that's intentional. The reason why it's that way is apparent if you look at that picture above - "Wife's birthday" and "Flowers" are both 6/26, if you group tasks by date they will be next to each other - there is no hierarchy in any sort order other than "sort:none". Now if you try to drag flowers above "Wife's birthday" that wouldn't make any sense would it?
Bottom line is that natural order+hierarchy are nto compatible with any kind of sorting.
Now, I know what you think - "what if I don't have a hierarchy, wouldn't that be cool to be able to it then?". Yeah, I will look into that. Not sure how exactly this would work, but I will see what I can do.
Hello again.
I really like the app and the evolution in the short time since I have downloaded it. My remaining wish is to be able to sort the tasks within the view by date mode. I often have a number of tasks and some of them logically would be ordered together. If I move tasks forward from previous dates, I have no way to re-order them with the individual day. I still hope this can be done. Any plans to add this feature?
Thanks again.
To be clear, those tasks are not subtasks of one another - it's just a plain list, right?
There is certainly no harm in doing something like this, however I don't see this as a high priority so it's not likely to get done any time soon. Maybe if more people ask I could reconsider, but a lot of people already ask for collapsible tasks and cross-list view and other things so I am likely to be busy for quite some time yet. Sorry.
Thanks again for your quick response. Yes, and I completely understand (this maybe just me). I wonder, however, if there is a work around for me. What is the sort priorities for tasks? If I move an item from one day to the next, it seems to move to a predetermined spot. If I create a new task for the day, it goes to the top. If I can understand the predetermined sort option within a day, perhaps I can do something to rearrange the tasks in an order that makes sense to me. If it is alpha, for example, I can add letters prior to create categories in which to cluster.
Thanks again.
Sure, the sort is order-preserving. This means that whatever order that tasks were originally in, they will stay in that same relative order if their due dates are the same. Does it make sense?
Thanks again Dennis. Yes, that's what I thought. I was wondering if there was another sort order (such as alpha) as a secondary sort. This way I could have added a letter or two to cluster some of the tasks together.
Take care and thanks again for all of your work.
Neil
Yeah I thought about doing that at the time. The reason why I chose to preserve order is this: imagine you don't have any due dates set and then you sort tasks by date - what is the most natural expectation? That nothing changes, I think.
Sorry to turn you away. Allowing drag-n-drop to change due date wasn't even planned as a feature - I only made it as an experiment.
