Events as tasks and vice versa

[aquemy]

Hello,

Two (not that) small proposals for killing features. I think it involves also the Tasks app but as it seems to me that it requires more work from the Calendar app, I create the ticket here.

1. Events as tasks

I think having the possibility to mark an event as a task would be very useful. The main use case I see is the following:

1. the user inserts events on some calendars, and marks some as "tasks" (e.g. "buy more coffee").
2. those calendars are de facto a list in the Tasks app and offer a view of the event that are "tasks".
3. the tasks can then automatically appeared in "Today", "This week" and "Important".

Finishing a task would cross the event in the calendar.

Optionally, the possibility to switch the view to displayed the tasks either by "planned date" or "ending date" would be nice. A small "star" to display the task labelled as important and a small bar to notify the progression would be a plus.

2. Tasks displayed on calendar

The rational is that we often have a huge list of tasks that we would like to do, without having the time or the possibility to perfectly define when we will start them. If I plan my week in the Calendar app, I would like to take the tasks I already defined in the Tasks app to turn it into an event that would appear on the Calendar view.

The Task app already allow us to define progression, starting date and due date so I think this is just about a bridge between the apps.

By the way, thank you for you work on this cool app. It is very appreciated. :)

[georgehrke]

There is already a feature request for the second one: https://github.com/owncloud/calendar/issues/499

regarding the first one: You can set a due date on tasks, so why would you add something like "buy more coffee" as an event?

[aquemy]

The example of "buy more coffee" is probably not the best. What was in my mind is simply the possibility to create the Tasks of a given List in the Calendar app instead of having to use the Tasks app.

Combined with the second proposal it gives a mapping between a List and a Calendar (almost, since you would still be able to have events that do not appear in the List).

It is less important than the second proposal but might still be useful (at least for me).