Re: [appigo-todo] Re: Manual Sort Changes Due Dates

I didn't know about this feature until Bill was kind enough to bring it to our attention.  At first I agreed with him--changing the date on its own?! that sounds bad--but then I tried it; and kind of liked it. 

(a) When planning for the week, or cleaning up ye olde "Overdue" list, it's a much more convenient way to reschedule items than laboriously opening each one and changing its due date.

(b) The app is hardly changing the due date "on its own".  The user has to drag the item across a thick gray date bar.  It's not something he's likely to do accidentally.  One of the challenges of app programming is cramming as many operations as possible into a severely limited gesture language.  This one is arguably surprising; possibly something that should be configurable (maybe as part of a set of power-user operations), but definitely not a bug.

Wayne(+1);

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, hockey_magnet <cjuzda@gmail.com> wrote:

First, I don't know what your expectation is. You know that the view
is sorted by date so why even attempt to manually sort them - Unless
you are just sorting for a single due Date and not across multiple due
dates. I think the developers intention was to allow sorting within
the same due date, otherwise the list is no longer date sorted, is
it?. Basically manual sorting should either not be allowed when sorted
by due date or due date sorting should be able to be turned off. I
agree that 2Do handles the sorting options very well and ToDo should
offer other sorting options - which I don't think would be terribly
difficult, including a pure manual sort mode that ignores dates but
allows reverting to date sorts just by going back to date sorts. Now
that Star is available, that would probably help

On Feb 7, 10:31 am, Bill <waclark...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When viewing a list with items that have due dates, sorted by priority
> then by due date, when you manually sort within a priority if you move
> an item with a due date of today above an over-due item, Todo changes
> the due date of the task you moved to the due date of the item you
> moved it above.  I do not understand why the application changes the
> due date.  The app should NEVER change a due date on it's own!
>
> Is this a bug?  If not, explain why you allow this to happen.  This
> has caused me problems and I am considering changing to another
> application that does not exhibit this behavior.

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