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

[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.