Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks?

[paavi@mastodontti.fi]

@KayEllen We use Deck for shopping lists and I know the items can have deadline/expiration, but recurring tasks? I dunno. @ljrk @afewbugs

[paavi@mastodontti.fi]

@worik You wont believe how useful automated reminders are and how often my partner encourages me to make more of them. She also uses them a lot. But yeah, it actually is useful to have for example a tri or bi-weekly recurring timed reminder to change the bedsheets etc. To be able to set them from the web interface is just neat because that's the closest to platform agnostic you can get with nearly no effort. @ljrk @afewbugs

[kitten_tech@fosstodon.org]

@suearcher @afewbugs @PeterMLittle hah yes. I work in IT and just a few days ago was reflecting with somebody on how often user workflows are ignored (in the context of systems where you log in to see some protected data having poor support for showing others that data; I was congratulating them on having a good mechanism for making a share link!)

[paavi@mastodontti.fi]

@worik Sometimes writing it down with a pen on a paper helps to remember, and that's something you may or may not get with a computer. Sometimes a sticky note on the door works the best. @ljrk @afewbugs

[kitten_tech@fosstodon.org]

@afewbugs @suearcher my favourite repeat offender is having unsealed chipboard or MDF edges butted against a tiled floor, which is tiled because you expect (a) people to spill liquids on it and (b) it to he mopped regularly... Those edges soak up gross liquids and the wood expands and rots... In my home I've run a fat bead of silicone caulk around the edges of the kitchen and bathroom floors! Also turns the acute 90° grime trap into two 45°s so easier to clean!

[bashstkid@mastodon.online]

@Lilysea @afewbugs Unsure if this was an actual conversation, or a summary of endless sixties conversations;

“And what positions will the women be taking?”
“Horizontal, baby, horizontal”

[paavi@mastodontti.fi]

@harriehq I think most of us benefit from lists, at least until they figure out the routine. If routines are hard to form, then lists are necessary. The whole stereotypes and roles thing is cultural and true, but it's also not something written in stone that can't be changed. I do not know what I want to say with this. Maybe that if you have learned something at a young age or out of necessity or it's part of your "love-language" it's "easy" even if you don't particulary like or enjoy @afewbugs

[paavi@mastodontti.fi]

@harriehq it. For me it means cooking, emptying the dishwasher, hoovering, washing the sinks and toilets etc. That's me showing I can make my loved ones' day at least half decent. I don't need appraisal for that, because it's necessary to balance the daily load somehow. A reminder for some of the less routinely occurring stuff would make life easier though.
I struggle with organizing objects that do not yet have a clear destination or space to put them into, so I do other things. @afewbugs

[paavi@mastodontti.fi]

@fishidwardrobe Why are there examples of taskmanagers with recurring tasks then? Why is it so hard to accept a solution to a feature request that is seemingly popular but gets ignored usually with "we value stability more" nothingburger arguments? https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks/pull/2318 @afewbugs

[fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de]

@paavi @afewbugs fair point.

[nolitimere@toot.wales]

@afewbugs Absolutely. And often, the unlauded/unbudgeted maintenance is critically important: when it doesn’t get properly considered in design, or carried out well, the [impressive ego] project fails! Thinking here about some high-profile buildings designed by “star” architects which develop costly leaks. Also about the huge amounts of public infrastructure, e.g. bridges, which have been poorly maintained such that they now need actual replacement at tremendous public inconvenience and expense.

[kayellen@masto.hackers.town]

@paavi @ljrk @afewbugs I too know of no way to have tasks automatically re-occur. I have to do that manually, which is far from ideal.

[harriehq@app.wafrn.net]

I think
1) Lots of women think "everyone knows how to clean" because they don't realize how THEY'VE been conditioned since childhood to be the ones who clean up while the boys get to goof off, and the grown men lounge around watching football after Thanksgiving dinner…
2) For those of us girls who "slipped through the cracks" and didn't get turned into miniature maids by our mothers, learning as an adult can be difficult. Especially throwing neurodivergence into the mix. The people screaming at me were saying "IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO CLEAN, LEARN! YOU'RE AN ADULT! MAKE SOME EFFORT! TAKE RESPONSIBILITY! WE'RE NOT HOLDING ANYONE'S HAND!!" But — like, if you started a new job, you wouldn't just get turned loose on day one with no guidance. And with AuDHD, I need help finding a "starting point." I need examples of what "needs to be done" (or what's expected of me) so I can use it as a guide and reference in the future. Especially with my ex expecting me to just read his mind… Sorry, that's not something I can "teach myself." Dude can't get mad at me for not meeting his standards when he refused to communicate what those standards were. Except he absolutely did get furious.

[amblergee@indieweb.social]

@afewbugs whew, this was straight🔥! ✊🏿✊✊🏾✊🏻✊🏽✊🏼💥

[paavi@mastodontti.fi]

@harriehq I understand. Also here I must say that while what you described is also in some ways part of my culture here in Finland, it's also a little different, at least in my experience. There's that and my male bias. @afewbugs

[kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com]

@afewbugs This.

But also, what do they think people use a task manager _for_? Recurring tasks that don't happen often enough to be part of the daily routine are exactly the ones that people like me want a program to manage.

[suearcher@toot.wales]

@kitten_tech @afewbugs

One of my favourites is the church hall stairs, which have a chrome rail and glass panel bannister. But they turn 180 degrees halfway up, so a large part of two of the glass panels overlap with a narrow gap, making them difficult to reach to clean.

And outside, where the ramp that goes from the church yard gate to the hall door cuts across two of the window niches, providing a lovely spot for autumn leaves to gather, with only a very narrow gap to get a broom in.

[pdl@social.anoxinon.de]

@ljrk @afewbugs You think it is a good idea when Nextcloud developes and implements a proprietary protocol? Hm.
I am using Thunderbird and the Tasks app with recurring tasks. They sync with Nextcloud. It works.

[jetlagjen@gts.phillipsuk.org]

@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech that sounds like the shiny PFI hospital in my home town. Tony Blair was *so proud* of the whole thing.

But they gave the atrium a glass roof three stories high. This did not impress the receptionists expected to work there when they were sweating so much they struggled to hold onto the phones. Neither were they at all happy with the absolute cacophony every time it rained, meaning they were shouting sensitive information to patients to be heard.

The rest of the building was similarly unsuitable. The doors were only just wide enough to get a hospital bed through. Porters had to work out complicated ways of opening the door, holding it with one foot, squeezing the bed through, and then going after it. They could have had extra space for wide, swinging doors, but they wasted so much on the damned atrium!

[kaleissin@wandering.shop]

@clew @afewbugs @ljrk Yeah whenever I have some task that needs repeating the first thing I try is cron.