poor man's recurrence #2846
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Hello, lack of proper recurrence support is my main pain in using Taskwarrior, but despite of that it's the most productive tool for task management. Considering I've a lot of recurring tasks, I wonder what would be the pro/cons of converting them to non-recurring ones? For example, instead of completing one when it's due or when I manage to finish it, to just modify its due date with e.g., It is not perfect, but, maybe, better than Taskwarrior creating new instances with incorrect due dates? |
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This can probably be done with a custom uda that would hold your recurring value (ie |
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I believe I did try with on-modify hook in the past, but without uda, so if you believe there is some workaround to accomplish it, I'm all ears... |
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Ok i think i have something that should work along the lines of what you're looking for (or at least easily adaptable to what you want). First, i added a uda in my
I wrote this simple this #!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import json
import datetime
import re
DATETIME_FORMAT = "%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ"
original_task = json.loads(sys.stdin.readline())
modified_task = json.loads(sys.stdin.readline())
crecurr = modified_task.get("crecurr", None)
# if we are actively making a task with crecurr "done"
if crecurr and modified_task["status"] == "completed":
# reset it to pending state
modified_task["status"] = "pending"
# extract the current due date
due = modified_task["due"]
due = datetime.datetime.strptime(due, DATETIME_FORMAT)
# extract the different values in crecurr as a list of (value, unit)
crecurr = crecurr.split()
crecurr = [[y for y in re.split('(\d+)', x) if y] for x in crecurr]
delta = {}
# build ou delta using the values in crecurr
for value, unit in crecurr:
if unit == 'w':
delta["weeks"] = int(value)
if unit == 'd':
delta["days"] = int(value)
# etc etc fill with all the cases you want to manage
# expand it to an actual timedelta object
delta = datetime.timedelta(**delta)
# update the current due date
due = due + delta
modified_task["due"] = due.strftime(DATETIME_FORMAT)
print(json.dumps(modified_task))
sys.exit(0)Now for an example, here is a task with a due date and our expected recurrence
Now completed the usual way
But if i inspect it again...
It only updated the due date. |
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Thank you very much! Maybe I do miss something, but it does not work as expected...
My task does not have
What do I miss? |
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You need to add the attribute "crecurr" to your task, just like you used to add the "recur" attribute before. Basically, instead of I wouldn't mix the normal recur and this customized one, so don't hesitate to remove all the original recurring tasks and replace them. |
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Ahh, now it makes sense. Thank you. 😉
OK, I did it and here is the sequence: Everything is as expected... Now, let's complete that task: and inspect new instance: So, I'd expect that the new instance would be due on Any hint?
Sure. :-) |
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Hmm, for me the behavior is ok, due date was # reset it to pending state
modified_task["status"] = "pending"
# extract the current date
# /!\ NEXT LINE CHANGED
due = datetime.now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0)
# extract the different values in crecurr as a list of (value, unit)
crecurr = crecurr.split()
crecurr = [[y for y in re.split('(\d+)', x) if y] for x in crecurr]
delta = {}
# build ou delta using the values in crecurr
for value, unit in crecurr:
if unit == 'w':
delta["weeks"] = int(value)
if unit == 'd':
delta["days"] = int(value)
# etc etc fill with all the cases you want to manage
# expand it to an actual timedelta object
delta = datetime.timedelta(**delta)
# update the current due date
due = due + delta
modified_task["due"] = due.strftime(DATETIME_FORMAT)Overall, you can probably hack into the python script at this point, and make it behave as you wish! |
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Ok i think i have something that should work along the lines of what you're looking for (or at least easily adaptable to what you want).
First, i added a uda in my
.taskrcI wrote this simple
on-modify.crecurr.pyscript.this
crecurrforcustom recurrenceis supposed to have a string in the format of {value}{unit}