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Reminders sent when item marked @done
If I write the following "Remind me next Monday to print my resignation letter @todo" Sandy, quite rightly, sends me a todo next Monday.
If, however, I complete the todo before then and mark it @done Sandy still sends me a reminder and I can see, from a 'programming perspective, why she is doing this. What we are trying to do, however, is to get Sandy to behave like a 'real' assistant and if I told my secretary that I had done something I would not expect her to remind me later that about something I had told her I had already done.
Ideally what should happen is that marking an item @done should cancel any reminder set for this item.
If, however, I complete the todo before then and mark it @done Sandy still sends me a reminder and I can see, from a 'programming perspective, why she is doing this. What we are trying to do, however, is to get Sandy to behave like a 'real' assistant and if I told my secretary that I had done something I would not expect her to remind me later that about something I had told her I had already done.
Ideally what should happen is that marking an item @done should cancel any reminder set for this item.
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Inappropriate?A related issue, which I've reported separately, is that Sandy continues to carry items with their original due dates forever, even if I snooze them with "remind me next week." This feels like non-intuitive behavior to me. -
Inappropriate?Same thing happened to me today and I was a bit surprised. I assumed that since @done is a predefined tag it was hard-coded into the system to automatically cancel reminders for items completed earlier. Something to think about. -
Inappropriate?Howdy,
Sandy should indeed have cancelled the reminder when you marked the item as done. Is this happening with each and every to-do item marked as @done? Or only one so far? And did it start very recently for you?
We've been working with Sandy on changing the behavior of some reminders. I'll take a gander at this particular issue though.
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Inappropriate?Hi again,
I just double-checked this and while marking a to-do or appointment (or anything else with a reminder set) as archived stops it from reminding you, somewhere along the line, Sandy stopped doing the same for to-dos marked as done.
We've had a chat and, starting tomorrow, Sandy will no longer send out reminders for done to-dos.
Thanks for pointing out the issue, Norbiq!
—R
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Inappropriate?Hi again, Norbiq and Microdoc!
This fix is in the midst of being deployed to our servers as I write this.
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Inappropriate?Hi Rich,
Sorry to only be noticing this now...
So your thought is that if you snooze something it should change the date and time? What about snoozing a reminder for another 5 minutes on an appointment I have at 2pm -- the appointment is still on for 2pm; only the reminder has been snoozed. Any thoughts?
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Inappropriate?Well... that situation would very rarely apply to me, because I don't usually snooze reminders for timed items, only for all-day items like todos.
Example of what i do: I get a reminder at 6am to "call Gary" and I reply with "u#1 tomorrow" to put it off. So I go to bed and get up tomorrow. "Call Gary" is no longer on "today's" todo list, because the item is still attached to "yesterday."
I may be confused about how things work, so I'll experiment a little more in the course of my normal work, and will repost here if there is still a problem.
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