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by ArnoldP 3706 days ago
It isn't clear from the description, but does this allow you to have tasks become 'triggered' for lack of a better term once a task has been completed? eg I want my task list in the morning to say make eggs and bacon, then once I've done that a new task pops up for me to do the dishes.
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Yup. I worked with Tony on the tool. That's exactly what we had in mind. We didn't want people going through onboarding to be overwhelmed — and we also didn't want to have to manually date each task relative to their start date. i.e. If you do this on day on (April 22), then you must do this task three days later (April 25.) This tool simply lets you enter April 22 and then figures out what the next due date should be, based on the time length you specify.
Lead dev here - Yes, it supports that. It supports any task which can be expressed in the syntax "complete this [X] days after this [list of items] is done, where X can be positive, negative, or zero, and [list of items] could include just the special first task "dayZero" which sets the base date for the checklist or any other combination of tasks.
Cool, I'm going to check it out later today.
MyLifeOrganized has that (look at 'Dependencies' - http://www.mylifeorganized.net/#comparison-table) but I think it's probably too robust (and expensive) for the average person.
I use MLO to keep track of my professional work. I agree it can be overkill, but it's perfect for managing tasks that depend on other tasks.

Some additional features I find useful are:

- the ability to add multiple tasks (line separated)

- you can automatically generate a list of tasks ordered by urgency and priority (can be customized)

- you can easily nest tasks into folders

- you can easily edit many tasks at once (priority, dates etc.)

- folders flagged as "projects" display a progress bar overlay

- you don't need to go through any menus to add/view task-related notes; notes appear in the sidebar depending on what's selected

- great for multi-tasking because it dynamically combines all your task lists into one

I was on board w/ 29.95$ for an android app, I balked at $60 for the windows version.