Moon-Jumper Tasks

Tasks

A task can take a list of conditions. It will only show up as active when all it's conditions are met.

Basic Fields

• Name: name of task
• Notes: additional notes, hyperlinks are automatically linked. Should add a task notation link too.
• Points: time/energy requirements of the task
• Label: task context

Read-Only / Computed Fields

• State
  • Active: task can be worked on. It will show up in lists and when the priority is high enough, it will show up in the main list
  • Backlog: tasks assigned to the backlog will never become active until they are removed.
  • Pending: some pre-req hasn't been met.
• Date Active: when a task changes from pending or back log to active, this is updated.
• Date Complete: date when a task is marked as done

Conditions

• Date: when a task is given a date, it will not be active until after that date.
• Date Range: Takes two month/day and returns true for dates in between.
• Set: creates a set of conditions so that if you want several things to work off the same conditions, they can all be wired to the same set.
• Weather: takes the users location and lets user exclude tasks based on certain weather conditions (temperature, rain probability). One catch is that this should not reset the active date. This is a nice-to-have.

UI Conditions

• Button: Can only be pressed once.
• Switch: Can switch on and off.

UI conditions can themselves have display conditions. So a button can be set to not show up until some task is complete.

Values with in the task system itself can be used as conditions. The condition can be linked to the item being either done or active.

• Task
• Group Stage
• Group

Repeaters

A repeater returns the next date in a sequence, or returns nothing, indication end of repetition.

• Until: Will repeat until all it's conditions are met. Always returns today or nothing.
• Days: Repeats some number of days after completion
• Week: Repeats by day of the week.
• Month: Repeats by day of the month, negative means counting from the end of the month.
• Date: Takes a month/day.

Priority

This is always hard to get right.

I like the 4 priority stages I use. 3 normal levels and Now that means it always shows up in the main list (overriding point limits).

I'd like to add a hidden secondary priority. Each priority level forms a queue. When a task becomes active, it's set to the bottom of it's priority queue. You can also "Bump" a task to send it to the bottom of the priority queue.

• How would you promote a task?
• What to do when changing priority?

Label

Maybe do calendar import: Import a calendar and scale a labels point based on free time.