Beta preview: Repeating tasks and the new due notifications mechanism


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Beta preview: Repeating tasks and the new due notifications mechanism

Today we updated our Beta server http://beta.checkvist.com with a couple of things we were working on lately. They might still have slightly rough edges, but we're very close to the release, so you can use them on your real data.

New due notifications
- By default are sent now only to those who set them (or who's the assignee of a given task). Thus you won't be receiving notifications that other people set for themselves or other team members. Less noise, more signal.
The old option to receive all due notifications from the selected lists is still there.

- You can set the time when you want to receive due notifications, midnight is still the default time, but now you can change this on your Profile page (Notifications tab).

- An option to receive notifications from the archived lists (also on the Profile page)

Repeating tasks
A new shortcut to learn is dr. Type dr on any selected task to invoke the Repeating settings dialog (or click the Repeat... link in the Due date (dd) dialog). More about supported repeating patterns in the reference (https://beta.checkvist.com/auth/help#repeating). 

After the release repeating tasks will be a PRO feature, but all repeating tasks you set now on http://beta.checkvist.com will appear on the main server even if you use a free plan.

Comments

  1. John Winstanley24 April 2013 at 10:14

    This is great. Already using repeating items. I like the option to repeat from the due date OR from the completion date. Really useful.

    One minor request - could we have an option to set the first day of the week to be Monday not Sunday?

    Thanks.

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  2. Checkvist25 April 2013 at 01:12

    John Winstanley Thanks, glad to hear you like it :) 
    As for the Sun/Mon dichotomy we'll see if we can automatically distinguish europeans and americans who would definitely request Sundays first. If not, one side will suffer :)

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  3. Noel Reid29 April 2013 at 21:59

    +1 for making Monday the start, not Sunday

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  4. Kirill Maximov (KIR)2 May 2013 at 10:45

    Checkvist will try to detect whether to start a week with Monday or with Sunday. The next server update will contain the appropriate fix. Hopefully it will suit most of our users :)

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  5. Kirill Maximov (KIR)5 May 2013 at 13:19

    On http://beta.checkvist.com you can try how Checkvist detects the beginning of the week :)

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  6. John Winstanley6 May 2013 at 03:05

    Hi Kirill Maximov Checkvist still starts the week on Sunday. I'm in the UK where we would expect the week to start on Monday. Is there anything I need to do so that your server correctly selects Monday? Thanks.

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  7. Kirill Maximov (KIR)6 May 2013 at 05:36

    Hi John Winstanley , have you tried this on http://beta.checkvist.com? Do you use UTC time?

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  8. John Winstanley6 May 2013 at 08:00

    Hi Kirill Maximov - yep using the beta. Not sure what you mean when you say UTC time, I am on GMT

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  9. Kirill Maximov (KIR)6 May 2013 at 08:14

    UTC==GMT. I just tried setting GMT timezone - and it shows a week starting with monday (after browser restart). What is the browser/OS you're using?

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  10. John Winstanley6 May 2013 at 08:16

    OS X Mountain Lion, Chrome Version 27.0.1453.73 beta

    I'll try restarting the browser and I'll try Safari (even though I hate it!!)

    Update Tried restarting Chrome and still get the week starting on Sunday. Tried Safari, same

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  11. Kirill Maximov (KIR)6 May 2013 at 08:26

    Thanks. Very strange. Will dig deeper.

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  12. John Winstanley6 May 2013 at 08:30

    Thanks, let me know if you need any more info. In  the UK we are currently on Summer Time, so even though UTC is currently 15:30 local time is 16:30, not sure if that is of use?

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  13. Kirill Maximov (KIR)7 May 2013 at 00:57

    John Winstanley I've just set London time on my Mac 10.8.3 and on beta.checkvist.com it shows a week starting with monday (in due date dialog). What is the exact Time zone name in System Preferences -> Date&Time -> Time Zone on your machine? 

    Thanks!

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  14. John Winstanley7 May 2013 at 01:07

    Hi Kirill Maximov - rewind!

    I was thinking that the pop up when typing 'dr' would also start on a Monday.

    As you say the due date dialogue does correctly start on a Monday.

    Sorry - a case of miscommunication between us.

    BTW - it would be nice if the 'dr' pop-up ran M T W T F S S rather than S M T W T F S

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  15. Kirill Maximov (KIR)7 May 2013 at 01:14

    John Winstanley , thanks. I'm an idiot - I've fixed the week start in the calendar dialogs and forgot about those checkboxes.
    Thanks a lot for helping to debug this :)
    Will correct this today and let you know.

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  16. John Winstanley7 May 2013 at 01:23

    Cheers Kirill Maximov - and for the record you are not an idiot!

    I'm pleased to have helped find a bug though :^)

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  17. Kirill Maximov (KIR)11 May 2013 at 10:34

    John Winstanley Thanks again for the help with the bug tracking. Should be fixed on http://beta.checkvist.com.

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  18. Anthony Carrabino20 November 2018 at 08:47

    hi Krill ... i have a repeating task with sub-tasks. Will the repeating task include the sub-tasks?

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  19. Kirill Maximov (KIR)20 November 2018 at 11:39

    Hi Anthony Carrabino, If you make a task with subtasks repeating, all subtasks will be reopened when repeating due date activates.
    Is it what you're asking for?

    Best,

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