Clear not Purge - Google Tasks on iOS

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Clear not Purge

Martin (guest) 28 Sep 2010 21:27

Love the program, but it seems that you should be able to clear completed tasks rather than purge (delete) them. Google tasks supports this function. I end up opening Google Tasks on Safari so I can complete this step. I know you can still see trash items from a regular web browser, but clearing seems to be a more accurate function.

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Re: Clear not Purge

Denis Altudov 29 Sep 2010 01:36

Sadly, what Google when you press that button is remember the current time as a kind of a watermark - all tasks completed prior to that are "cleared". Think about what that means for GeeTasks in offline mode:

You complete some tasks in Google's site
Without syncing, you complete some tasks in GeeTasks
You "clear" the tasks in GeeTasks. Your intent is to have cleared the tasks which you observed at that time as completed in GeeTasks.
You sync. GeeTasks replays "clear" command to Google and all tasks from step 1 and 2 get cleared.

Not what you expected, right?

I'm thinking about allowing "clear" only when GeeTasks is online and connected to Google Tasks, so that there is never any confusion as to what exactly is cleared. Alas, this would make offline mode less appealing…

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Martin (guest) 29 Sep 2010 04:02

Thanks for the response. It is not really a big deal. As I said, I love the app. When it comes to software, so much is not as straight forward as it seems.

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