maybe a dumb question, but what is the purpose/meaning of an "invalidated" task?
Hello friends!
Hello friends! I'd like to ask for your opinion regarding multi-line text editing. This suggestion comes from one of our Russian-speaking customers Dolina Zamkova so here is a translated abstract of our email conversation. Current problem: When you write multi-line text, you must press 'Shift-Enter' first, then use 'Enter' to start a new line, then 'Ctrl-Enter' to submit the text. Wouldn't it be easier to have a setting that will allow using Enter to always write multi-line texts, and always submit on 'Ctrl-Enter', like you do it in text messengers? So we could add a new account-wide setting, on the Settings page: () Finish editing by pressing 'Ctrl-Enter' (convenient for multi-line text) What do you think? Do you write multi-line texts in Checkvist at all? Other thoughts of how we could make it better? :)
I've wondered the same thing...
ReplyDeleteYou validate something when it's complete, by hitting space. To reverse that action, you hit shift/space. I'd suggest Kir change the term from "invalidate" to "un-validate" for clarity.
ReplyDeleteJim Leff That's not quite right: hitting space 'completes' a task (rendered by default as struck through). Invalidating it with shift+space puts it in the 'completed' part of the list (ie. it disappears if you hide completed), but decrements only the total tasks number, not the completed tasks. It gets rendered by default with italics.
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite sure what the use of it is. Perhaps it's for people who make serious use of the progress counter, offering a way to hide tasks without adding them to the 'completed' count?
The reference mentions invalidated tasks in the Confluence export, so they might exist primarily for interop.
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Hi everyone, initially 'invalidated' tasks were introduced to mark some tasks in the list as non-relevant at some context. I.e. they cannot be 'completed' in some situation, but we still want to keep them in the list due to some reason.
ReplyDeleteThey make sense if you have a template list of tasks (checklist), and copy this list over and over. This status excludes task from the progress counter, marks the list item italic, and such tasks are hidden in 'hide completed' mode.
This feature is not very useful for most people, but it was present since the very first version of Checkvist, and has its users.
Hope this clarifies things a bit :)
I use them for everything that won't or can't be completed. Mostly notes. Other than Checkvist notes, they can be moved around, nested, ... (i. e. they have all the great powers of tasks).
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