Increment due date according to offset from deferral date (for adjustments from today) about todo.txt-cli-again-addon HOT 4 OPEN

I agree that it's not ideal what it currently does. I'm no longer using todo.txt very much so I'm unlikely to invest any time in changing it. I see that you're also a previous contributor, perhaps you can fix it yourself and @nthorne will accept your patch?

I will mention that the SwiftDo IOS app which is the other way I interact with my todo.txt also has some weirdness. You can see that I made the task as a clone of yours. Threshold and due date 1 month apart and we are currently between the 2 of them. They use rec: as their recurrence tag and I do as well using export TODO_AGAIN_TAG=rec in my .todo/config.

x 2021-09-13 2021-09-13 pri:C service car t:2021-09-10 due:2021-10-10 rec:6m
(C) 2021-09-13 service car t:2022-03-10 due:2022-03-13 rec:6m

When I marked this task completed today, I get a threshold date 6 months from the previous t: value and a due date 6 months from TODAY. So now the threshold-due interval has shrunk to 3 days. Surely not what is desired there either.

I'm not aware of how topydo handles this situation, but we should probably aim for something approaching consistency between these 3 or more implementations.

I will mention that at least this addon is quite explicit in the README.MD of what will happen though I do agree that it's probably not what anyone would prefer.

"Mark item N as done, and then recreate it with the creation date set as today's date, and any existing due date and deferral date set to ADJUST from today."

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Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to making this well-presented suggestion. Your proposal looks sound to me, but I have also migrated away from the todo.txt system, so it is quite unlikely that I will invest any significant amount of time in the system. I'd be happy to help out with reviews etc, though.

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After looking at the again code, I decided to implement this in Python as dorecur, a replacement for the built-in do action. (I do not mean that there is anything wrong with the code here, rather that Bash programming beyond simple shell scripts is to me an exercise in frustration.)

The new add-on can be found at https://github.com/owenh000/todo.txt-cli-dorecur.

Thanks @munkee and @nthorne for the feedback, and thanks for the again add-on which I have used for a long time.

Feel free to close this issue if that seems appropriate. Meanwhile I will be opening a pull request or two for some minor changes to again that I made locally a few days ago.

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I completely understand you @owenh000 , side projects should not be a point of frustration (that's what day jobs are for :) ). I'll keep this one open since I like the suggestion, and me or someone else might find the time to implement this some day. Thanks again for the input!

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