Recurring Tasks Bug
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Samuel Thomas
I have set up recurring tasks and they seem to change days. For instance, I have a recurring task set for every Friday, but looking ahead a few weeks, it is on a Thursday now?
Really love the app. Makes me so much more productive. The simplicity of the UI is key. Recurring tasks and such need to be correct however, as I have things like deadlines and things that need to be done by certain days which I could get wrong if I hadn't have noticed.
Appreciate all the work you do! :)
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Hi Chris. I've also been having this bug on almost all my recurring tasks. I'm in timezone PST (Vancouver, Canada). I'm using Chrome Version 130.0.6723.117. You have my permission to look at my data. One of my recurring tasks is "Place Canadian Springs Bottles Outside" which recurs every 4 weeks but seems to be appearing every week on my desktop app (not on mobile though - mobile seems to be okay with this one but for others, I've had issues with both desktop and mobile). Please let me know if you need more info. Thanks!
P.S. My name is Nasra Khawaja. Not sure why my name's not showing up on my post. I do see it on my account as Nasra.
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No name: Hey Nasra,
Sorry for the delay here and thanks for giving me permission to look into this!
I analyzed this task "Place Canadian Springs Bottles Outside" specifically and it looks like it does exist this week (Dec 19) but it originally was created on Dec 11 and then rolled over a few times. But the next instance appears to be Jan 15 which looks correct.
I noticed you have "rollover recurring tasks" as turned on in the settings, so any incomplete recurring tasks will rollover to the next day.
So for this specific task, it looks like it correctly created the task on Dec 11 (but then rolled over for a few days until now) and there are no other instances of it appearing until Jan 15 which also looks correct.
Can you confirm on your end that if you scroll over the next few weeks, it doesn't appear anymore until Jan 15?
Also thank you for taking the time to help me with this. Recurring tasks are all sorts of messed up and I'll take any help I can get to stabilize it haha
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Hi Chris,
This seems to have resolved itself. Yes, I only see the Jan 15 occurence now. If it happens again, I will take some screenshots and let you know. Thanks for looking into it!
Chris
No name: Great to hear! Yes please let me know if it happens again :)
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Sresth Gupta
Hi, I have also been having this bug on both ios and the macos desktop app and it makes recurring tasks basically unusable :(
Chris
Sresth Gupta: Emailing you directly!
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Thanks for the kind words Samuel :)
Recurring tasks are probably the buggiest (and most complex) part of the app so my apologies.
I plan on on doing a huge overhaul of the underlying technology to try to make it more stable.
A question to help me here:
Is this happening on iOS or desktop? And if not both, is one of those correct?
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Samuel Thomas
Chris
No worries at all :) I am a software engineer myself so understand the potential complexities of it.
The bug seems to happen on both iOS and desktop.
I guess in terms of providing more information, please let me know if you need anything else as i'd be more than happy helping in getting it fixed.
Cheers.
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Samuel Thomas
Ah ok, this is good to know.
2 other things that would help me:
- What timezone are you located in?
- Could I access your account data to check on the specific recurring task to see if there is anything wrong with it? If yes, could you share the name of the recurring task? (if no, all good!)
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Samuel Thomas
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- Timezone: UK
- Yes, you can access my account data. I recently deleted my tasks and have just gone to pen and paper due to the recurring task issue. However, I have just created a sample recurring task and the bug has occurred again so it is there for you to see. The task name is "This task should always be on every other thursday!"
Chris
Samuel Thomas so sorry for the delay here, addressing this now!
Chris
Hey Samuel Thomas did you travel or change timezones at all?
Having a ton of trouble reproducing this even setting my timezone to UK
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Samuel Thomas
Chris No travel outside the country at all since creation of account. Happened initially when I made my tasks, ended up deleting my tasks because of the issue so just went to pen and paper, then when you asked I created a recurring task again and it caused the bug again. Seems strange.
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Samuel Thomas
Appreciate you taking the time to re-explore this with me :)
Are you able to update your version of Google chrome?
I just checked and it looks like you are on chrome 118 which had a major timezone bug. The latest version is actually 130 and I have a strong suspicion this is the culprit.
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Samuel Thomas
Chris Hi Chris. Looking at my chrome in the settings, I am using version 130.0.6723.92 (Official Build) (x86_64)