Feature request: Any plans on adding recurring tasks?

[stellarorion]

Hi! I recently discovered this handy utility on my endless search for the perfect FOSS To-Do app/s.

Rant: My current setup is a tasks.org app on my phone and todoman on my desktop. Surprisingly, there aren't a lot of todo/habit/whatever open-source apps, both for the desktop and Android. Or they are, but they're always broken or inconvenient in some way. Most of them which I tried either have an awful UI (Vikunja for example) or lack any way of synchronizing tasks to other devices or an important feature (such as working notifications on Android… I'm looking at you, Habitica). Previously I was using Thunderbird for desktop since it has “tasks” and a calendar that work with CalDav, but the sorting of tasks is unusable.

My feature request: Anyway, I wanted to ask if you have any plans on adding recurring tasks. I know that todoman technically supports them if they're set from a different source, but I didn't find a way to create them from CLI. Thank you for your response and time in advance, have a lovely day.

[WhyNotHugo]

This is a wanted feature. I haven't had time to even think about what it would look like.

Let's assume that you're using todo new pay the rent to create an event. What arguments would you specify for recurrence? todo new --every '1 month' ...? Somebody needs to implement this flag and convert 1 month into a recurrence rule.

For the TUI interface, this requires thinking what a widget would look like and actually implementing it.

A note for anyone interested in working on this: do check out what bits khal implements and if anything is reusable.

[stellarorion]

The command could work like this todo new "pay the rent" --every "1 month", but what about custom occurrences? Such as 3 days in the week (Monday, Thursday, Friday)? Perhaps something like todo new "cook dinner" --every "1 week" = once every week on the day the task was created. And for specifying the days, maybe something like todo new "cook dinner" --every "1 week mo, tu, fr"