Repeating tasks do not stay in calendar view after being marked as completed

Jefim

Hello,

I love the app. One this that has been bothering me in the app though is that I have a bunch of daily repeating things that I need to do and when I mark those tasks complete they disappear from my calendar view, as if they were never there. The tasks that are NOT repeated (and are specific to a certain day) do stay in the calendar.

Is there something that I am missing in setting or is this a bug or a by design feature?..

webalstrom

This issue has been on my feature list for a while, too.

I would like to have a record that I completed my tasks, even if they are repeated daily (did I really wash the dishes today? 😉). In other outliner/task apps that I’ve used, there is often an option to either leave a completed version of the task in place or just erase the completed one like Legend does now.

If making this an either/or option is too complicated, I would like to just have the completed versions stay on my calendar/list which is the opposite of what is happening now. At least that way I have a record that I did something today!

Jefim

Yep, exactly my thoughts 🙂 Also, I feel that this is a bit inconsistent that some tasks stay in the calendar and some disappear. For me here is a whole day planned out and it should not really matter if task is repeated or not. Repeating for me is mostly a shortcut for not writing down all the same things that I need to do every day.

LauraH

100% agree - this has been on my list of frustrations with Legend for a long time also.

I’m mostly a mom at home - 90% of my tasks are repeating! I’d like to see the record of them. It would also be really nice to be able to look back at the calendar and see when I last did a repeating task; not just when it’s next due.

Jay

That is a great point. We do have a record of all of the completion dates so it should be fairly straightforward to make the calendar views show the completed dates. I’ll take a look into that.

mariusu

One suggestion: a task to be associated with multiple calendar events. Real-life scenario: completing a task often happens in more than one sitting… so it can be assigned multiple calendar slots.

I’ve seen this approach in Mindmesh and it works very well.