Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks?

If you build a task manager without the facility to do recurring tasks that tells me a) you're not the one doing the recurring maintenance tasks and b) you either don't recognise the importance of maintenance tasks or you haven't even noticed that they're being done around you to allow you to do the big one off production of a European open source task manager, say.

Come on, it's 2026. Do better men. And it is mostly men.

@afewbugs As someone who struggles with doing things on a schedule, IMO there's a sub-type of the second - the tasks that need to be done some amount of time after they were *last* done, whether or not that actually matched the schedule. I want to push a button to indicate that the sheets have in fact been changed, and the next reminder should be X weeks after that date, not end up at odds with the calender because they actually got changed 3 days after the reminder and the skew just keeps accumulating. I don't think I've ever seen this option in any scheduling software.

@afewbugs @suearcher my favourite repeat offender is having unsealed chipboard or MDF edges butted against a tiled floor, which is tiled because you expect (a) people to spill liquids on it and (b) it to he mopped regularly... Those edges soak up gross liquids and the wood expands and rots... In my home I've run a fat bead of silicone caulk around the edges of the kitchen and bathroom floors! Also turns the acute 90° grime trap into two 45°s so easier to clean!

@afewbugs There's one thing that I can somewhat, only a bit, accept as an excuse for talking about NextCloud in particular: It operates on CalDAV Standards and the Tasks part of that ... sucks badly. Like, terrible. I've not been happy with any of CalDAV synced Tasks because not only is support shoddy, but for exactly the reason you give.

However, NextCloud could – as any one of the stakeholders – try to push for something different or find ways to enable this use case better.

Case in point: What do people use for such tasks? Alarms are... hard to manage. Calendar entries are overwhelming. I try paper but I forget too often.

@suearcher @kitten_tech This was all before my time so I didn't witness it, but we did have to live with the consequences when I was working there which were that the top floor of the building was unbearably hot every summer due to being encased in a hastily erected greenhouse

cron can probably do everything we need, yesno?

lemmas: cron is nearly a language itself

cron was written by maintainers

@afewbugs @ljrk

@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech that sounds like the shiny PFI hospital in my home town. Tony Blair was *so proud* of the whole thing.

But they gave the atrium a glass roof three stories high. This did not impress the receptionists expected to work there when they were sweating so much they struggled to hold onto the phones. Neither were they at all happy with the absolute cacophony every time it rained, meaning they were shouting sensitive information to patients to be heard.

The rest of the building was similarly unsuitable. The doors were only just wide enough to get a hospital bed through. Porters had to work out complicated ways of opening the door, holding it with one foot, squeezing the bed through, and then going after it. They could have had extra space for wide, swinging doors, but they wasted so much on the damned atrium!

@jetlagjen @afewbugs @kitten_tech

Considering it apparently takes 7 or 8 years to qualify as an Architect, you'd think they'd be taught some useful stuff at some point.

@clew @afewbugs @ljrk Yeah whenever I have some task that needs repeating the first thing I try is cron.

Org-mode has good recurrence, plus/minus all the decisions being right there in the text file.

It’s interesting comparing how org-mode and Todoist handle some things that aren’t obvious re. what we want the system to “just do”

@kaleissin @afewbugs @ljrk

@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech that sounds like the shiny PFI hospital in my home town. Tony Blair was *so proud* of the whole thing.

But they gave the atrium a glass roof three stories high. This did not impress the receptionists expected to work there when they were sweating so much they struggled to hold onto the phones. Neither were they at all happy with the absolute cacophony every time it rained, meaning they were shouting sensitive information to patients to be heard.

The rest of the building was similarly unsuitable. The doors were only just wide enough to get a hospital bed through. Porters had to work out complicated ways of opening the door, holding it with one foot, squeezing the bed through, and then going after it. They could have had extra space for wide, swinging doors, but they wasted so much on the damned atrium!

@jetlagjen @afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech

Possibly an urban myth, but an award winning building in the US intended to be a university library never got used as such because the architect overlooked that books weigh quite a lot and the floor decks were not strong enough...

@EricBranse @jetlagjen @afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech

Pretty sure this one is myth. I heard it back in the late 80s about our college campus library, which was in fine condition

@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech that sounds like the shiny PFI hospital in my home town. Tony Blair was *so proud* of the whole thing.

But they gave the atrium a glass roof three stories high. This did not impress the receptionists expected to work there when they were sweating so much they struggled to hold onto the phones. Neither were they at all happy with the absolute cacophony every time it rained, meaning they were shouting sensitive information to patients to be heard.

The rest of the building was similarly unsuitable. The doors were only just wide enough to get a hospital bed through. Porters had to work out complicated ways of opening the door, holding it with one foot, squeezing the bed through, and then going after it. They could have had extra space for wide, swinging doors, but they wasted so much on the damned atrium!

@suearcher @jetlagjen @afewbugs @kitten_tech

If something has won architecture awards, I know it's probably inaccessible for me at a sensory level while being "accessible" on paper cos our regulations are minimal.

@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech @jetlagjen Does this hospital happen to be on a corner opposite a reservoir, McDonalds and B&Q and next to a Morrisons?

@NatalyaD @suearcher @afewbugs @kitten_tech there's a ramp, what more do you want‽

@jetlagjen @suearcher @afewbugs @kitten_tech yup, never mind the acoustics are horrific, there is mega sunlight glare or evil spotlights, or that the doors are bastard heavy cos they cheaped out on electronic door openers.

@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech that sounds like the shiny PFI hospital in my home town. Tony Blair was *so proud* of the whole thing.

But they gave the atrium a glass roof three stories high. This did not impress the receptionists expected to work there when they were sweating so much they struggled to hold onto the phones. Neither were they at all happy with the absolute cacophony every time it rained, meaning they were shouting sensitive information to patients to be heard.

The rest of the building was similarly unsuitable. The doors were only just wide enough to get a hospital bed through. Porters had to work out complicated ways of opening the door, holding it with one foot, squeezing the bed through, and then going after it. They could have had extra space for wide, swinging doors, but they wasted so much on the damned atrium!

@NatalyaD @jetlagjen @suearcher @afewbugs @kitten_tech

The door at one of the local motor factors has a sign in English and Romanian, Albanian, Polish and a few other languages because it opens inwards rather than outwards - it must be pulled to open (which isn't immediately obvious) and you are very likely to be carrying something like brake discs (they are heavy!), a starter battery, bulk oil - I was thinking about how this design has caused an entire worlds worth of mechanics to curse it (although if there are many people inside those in the queue usually hold open the door for whoever has heavy stuff)