Brooksking70

I'm curious about your opinions on this functionality. Is everyone here satisfied with the "RECURRING" task functionality that never shows the task marked as completed for any period of time? When you check a completed task it shows a check mark of completion for just a moment and then immediately updates the "DUE DATE" and becomes unchecked again. I see from the example that some users consider this to be the expected behavior. To me, the most obvious version of this being inconvenient is a list of recurring daily tasks to work through. You can't tell if you have completed your list unless you individually read each due date. I feel like the main of advantage of a TASK list would be to able to confirm at a glance that you have completed the tasks.

New 🌟 - You can now set a recurring task to be due a specific length of time after you last marked it as completed. That way, if you're running a little behind on something that needs to be done "every 30 days" (for example), the whole series will automatically update. Scott, I had one more thought to offer based on your reply. You mentioned that there is/was some debate on the reset time of immediately vs. end-of-day. I think the current functionality of the tool presents the obvious answer. If the minimum increment of recurrence is one day then it seams like the midnight option might be the obvious default. Unless hourly recurrence options are added, you would have to assume that people are only going to schedule these as "once daily" tasks which they would revisit each day, so in any given day they would want to see the tasks as completed or not completed within the confines of that day and then resetting on the next calendar day (midnight). Thanks for hearing my thoughts.

Ooof! I thought I was getting the update I was hoping for today. When I opened evernote, today, it showed me this new Release Note: New 🌟 - You can now set a recurring task to be due a specific length of time after you last marked it as completed. That way, if you're running a little behind on something that needs to be done "every 30 days" (for example), the whole series will automatically update. I had to try it out to understand the functionality, but this just shifts the next due date on recurring tasks relative to whenever you actually click the task. Even this additional functionality doesn't solve the need to have some amount of time where the recurring task "shows as completed" Ticking the task as completed shows as completed for about 1 second and then reverts to unchecked with a new date. You can never look at a look at list of tasks as completed. You still will always see new tasks with new dates. It just doesn't serve the task list purpose. It just a perpetual due date updater. Still hoping.

The only work-around I have thought of would be to make a Daily Routine note TEMPLATE with a list of tasks made with CHECK BOXES rather than TASKS. Each day I can make a new note (which I was hoping to avoid) and then check off the CHECK BOXES rather than Tasks. The down side of this is making a new note each day and you don't get the TASK VIEW functionality that I still would like to use on occasion. I'm going to feedback to the Tasks Devs. as agsteele has suggested, but I'm still open to other thoughts or work arounds.

I was very excited for the RECURRING task functionality. I am satisfied with how it works in TASK VIEW, but I think the functionality is lacking when viewing a recurring task in an individual note. The immediate use for recurring tasks that I hoped for was to make a "Daily Routine" note for personal items and a "Daily Routine" note for work items with a constant list of recurring tasks that I checked through each morning. (e.g. Check email, check calendar, send time sheet, etc.) The problem with the functionality is that as soon you check the TASK as complete it immediately unchecks and shows the next due date. This is fine for the Task View where you can filter by due date, but within a specific note it would be very nice to see each item remain "checked" off for the day so that you can quickly see if you have completed your list. It would be nice if you could set the amount of time a RECURRING TASK shows as completed (with strikethrough text) before it resets to the next due date. A list of Recurring daily tasks doesn't look completed (at a glance) if you have to re-read the due dates behind each task to see if you have completed them. Am I missing some functionality that already solves this? Does anyone have a good work around?

I'm also hoping for the ability to shut-off the dashboard in my "personal level" account. The half functionality makes it kind of "in the way".

I'm a 12 year paid user that was hoping for some sort of dashboard functionality. Now that it is here, I'm disappointed to find the "half" functionality it provides. Others might disagree, but I think the only useful dashboard feature is the filtered note. If you can only do one, then the whole thing really isn't that useful. I would now hope for the ability to just toggle-off the dashboard completely since the current "personal user" functionality really just turns it into a big advertisement for the next level that I have to look at every time I log in. Does anyone happen to know if that can be done?

Thank you gazumped and DTLow for your replies. I'm cautiously looking at Filterize and similar options now. The option for cutting and pasting search strings has renewed my interest in leveraging the search strings a little more, also. Thanks.

Is it possible to place evernote "saved searches" and evernote "shortcuts" inside a specific note? Just like the functionality of placing a single "note link" inside another note. I'm trying to gain the ability to navigate to all my relevant notes, on a particular subject, by tag search or notebook contents from within a single note. I suppose I'm trying to gain the functionality you would have if the Table of Contents notes could automatically update when things are added. As far as I know, they don't automatically update.