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[Feature] Recurring a series on the N-th weekday of the N-th month
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I would like to set a series recurring on a specific day of a week in a month
Describe the solution you'd like
Is it possible to allow a series of tasks recurring on the N-th weekday of the N-th month? This is very handy for stuff that you would like to do on a specific weekday of a specific month, in stead of every N-th week/month, for example:
- Seasonal, every 5th/last Wed. of every 3rd month (windows, etc)
- Monthly, every 5th/last Sat. of every month (leather shoes/bags)
- Finance, every 1st Mon. of every month (personal expenses)
Otherwise, these events happens all over week and/or the month, because not all months are exactly 28 days/4weeks.
Describe alternatives you've considered
For mere seasonal series, having it recurring every 13 weeks seem to solve it, kinda...
Additional context
Your current device and version
- Device: FairPhone 3
- Android version: LOS21
- jtx Board version: 2.09.01
- Downloaded from: Fdroid
Hi @86ul , sorry for not coming back to this earlier. I had some thoughts about this and I thought instead of blowing up the UI with so many options, I could offer kind of an expert mode where users can enter an RRULE (e.g. generated in https://icalendar.org/rrule-tool.html). What do you think?
No worries @patrickunterwegs
Regarding this requested feature, both Proton Calendar, and Etar (foss on Fdroid) have a similar function to PRULE, but neither do offer the function that jtx offers. With the result that neither I would recommend "blowing up the UI." Instead to change the UI, by replacing the current option in jtx. Just like the function of PRULE that both Proton, Etar (and alike?) already are offering.
Thus unless the current function has (significant) benefits over the PRULE function alla Proton/Etar, I would change the UI.
An alternative is giving the option to the end users themselves, by providing a 'replacement toggle' somewhere in the settings.
Edits: correcting mobile typos...
May be the Recurrence UI should be replaced with a PRULE UI (see https://icalendar.org/rrule-tool.html); in fact it would be less cluttered and easier to use than the existing non standard and incomplete recurrence UI.
Jtx is an amazing and unique tool for Journals and Notes. However this recurrence limitation as well as the lack of notification LED notifications (see bug #1749) make it unusable for Tasks (at least for me); so I am using Tasks.org until these two points are resolved.
Hi @fcrvincent , @86ul , sorry this took so long, but it was also a lot of effort to get this done. I did this change now. Still need to do some testing. If you're still using my app, it would be great if you could also give some feedback once the change is available as beta or release version! =)
Many thanks for this @patrickunterwegs; I can imagine this one required quite some work; will let you know when the release's available.