AI Planner: Start Date
under review
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Paul
Currently, when tasks are assigned to me in ClickUp or Linear, they sync seamlessly with Morgen, which is great. However, when using the AI planner, tasks are scheduled mostly based on due dates and Morgen’s smart scheduling engine.
The issue arises when I may not actually be able to work on a task until a specific future date—or I may not even want to think about it until then.
For example, if today is Friday and I assign my team a task to design something, I know they’ll be working on it today, Monday, and maybe Tuesday. I might set a due date for the following Friday, as I need to review it by then. However, I don’t want it scheduled in my AI planner until at least Wednesday.
Right now, Morgen tries to schedule it earlier than I actually need it or can physically work on it.
I know I can simply right-click and say 'Ignore Task', but that involves me having to review the task details to see if it's something I can or can't work on which takes away from the magic of the AI planner.
Proposed Solution:
Introduce a "Defer Until" field (or "Start Date") for tasks in Morgen’s AI planner. This would seamlessly map to Clickup's Start Date.
This would allow users to specify a date before which the AI should ignore the task for scheduling purposes. If the date is set to February 14th, for example, the task would not be considered in the AI planner until that day.
Benefits
- Reduces cognitive overload by ensuring tasks only appear when they are actually actionable.
- Prevents premature scheduling of tasks I’m not ready to work on.
- Improves AI task prioritization by only scheduling tasks I can work on.
Danny Hatcher
under review
Danny Hatcher
Merged in a post:
Obsidian integration: Scheduled + start dates
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Máté
Scheduled dates are as important as Due dates and built in functionality like "Use filename as Scheduled date for undated tasks" encourage the use of them. For me at least it would make sense for an uncompleted task to appear twice on my calendar, one occasion with the scheduled date (and for me this would be the default time blocking behavior), and one for due date.
Danny Hatcher
Merged in a post:
Notion start and end times
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Michael
Additional improvement to the tasks integration would be for it to respect start times, for tasks that have those, when updating due date. Currently it will clobber (delete) the start time when it is present instead just updating the end date.
Danny Hatcher
Merged in a post:
Allow unscheduled tasks to have a start date
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Jean
I'd like to have a task not show up before a certain date, but not be scheduled or have a duration or an end time. It's a task I want to do, but I don't want it to be surfaced before X date.
For example, say I borrowed a book from the library, and need to return it in 6 weeks. I create a task to return it. Here's how I'd like to use each of the fields:
- Start date: 5 weeks from now. I don't want to even think about returning it until the last week, and I don't want to show it in the calendar.
- End date: I probably wouldn't care about it, but if I did, it'd be when I want to return it by. For example, two days before the deadline. It would become overdue if it's not done by then.
- Duration: The amount of time it would go to the library to return the book. Would be useful when moving it to be a scheduled task.
- Due date: When the actual thing is due.
In essence, I'd like it to remain in the sidebar as one of the tasks to be completed, but give me freedom regarding when to do it because scheduling, for me, is difficult even a few hours ahead of time. On the other hand, I don't want to see it until I actually want to consider it in the first place.
Danny Hatcher
Merged in a post:
ClickUp Task Start Date
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Marco
It would be very useful to view ClickUp tasks by "Start date" in the same way we currently see them by "Due date" on the calendar. This feature would greatly assist in planning time blocks that begin on the "Start date".
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Nate
This would be a huge value-add. Currently, if setting a start/end time within Notion, it doesn't place the task on the day in question within Morgen nor does it time-block the task, even though the date + start/end time is visible on the task's labels within Morgen. If the task is then placed on the calendar manually (which we have to do for it to be time-blocked on the calendar) Morgen updates the entire due date within Notion.
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John Mavrick
This would be nice. I have scheduled tasks to replace my toothbrush every three months, and sometimes when I run out of tasks to suggest I see it in there but there is no way to not include it 😅
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Paul
There was a post in Discord from Srovex who said...
"I have monthly recurring tasks (check invoices, etc) in obsidian. Let's say I have to do it every 28th of month. Now if I use AI planner, and I have these task marked as important Morgen will fetch the next available and schedule it on the next free slot. So now I already have March invoices task scheduled for next week which is not optimal as the task name itself doesn't differentiate the months."
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Máté
I recon this is a complex topic and perhaps hard to implement, but I see a potential quick win here: to sync scheduled dates to Morgen and have that available as ordering and filtering.
That would already be a day a night difference working with Obsidian's Tasks plugin (where scheduled dates are the time outlined in the calendar to work on the task).
Danny Hatcher let me know if this quick win should be a separate feature request. I am also interested where this whole feature is blocked and if we can contribute to the solution.
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schmitzheinen694
I would also love to have scheduled tasks in the sidebar and the calendar as label since many of my tasks have a due date (deadline), yet I would like to start the task way earlier.
Maybe, it is possible to make it even more flexible and add "arbitrary" dates, where the user can decide to have them shown in the sidebar or calendar or not. I could imagine the start date or the scheduled date.
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