Archive, Delete or Hide Completed List/Task
Some of the lists may have all completed task and the list may not be valid anymore. Can there be option to archive or hide a list? Some recurring items which have over dozens of completed records, should be archived too.
Puneet Ghanshani
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Renaldo
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It is a must have feature.
It is ease manage complete list/task and it will allow reuse of them. -
Anonymous
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for recurring tasks an auto delete function would be nice ("delete after xxx recurrances/weeks etc.")
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Laurie
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I have a lot of recurring tasks and it makes no sense that they just keep piling up at the bottom of my lists once completed. Once you have complete it, the task should just move to the next date.
For other tasks, every list should have options to delete or hide completed tasks. Then you can choose if you want to be able to see the tasks that were completed for a specific project or keep a list current and clean.
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Scott Jones
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Microsoft, let's go. This is embarrassing. I am in project management and have fifty projects open because I can't archive any projects.
And to those who don't use this with other team members, I assume hiding works? However, if you're like me and have multiple users viewing tasks, we need an archive ability. I can only move lists around and not move under any other list.
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spirit
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you can hide completed tasks so it shouldn't matter — but there should be an option to remove completed tasks from showing up in the search...
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Anonymous
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Still Waiting for Archive or Hide feature
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Rommel Mathew Veranga Enguero commented
This is very easy to solve. Just create a new group and name it "Completed". Then drag all lists you want to hide/archive.
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Zeokat
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Please, add this feature. Users are waiting for this a lon long long time.
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Micheál
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If you have a list with too many completed tasks, could be good to just start a new list with the same name, move all your open tasks over and then delete the old list. Maybe note down any key tasks you completed any reviews your have with managers.
This could be a task for the end of the year, or start of a new year.
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Francesca
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That's great idea. No one wants to delete history.
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H Pera
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This request has been under review for nearly 2 years now. Maybe any update from MS?
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Pavel
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Archived lists indispensable for historical use cases. But they can be used for many other use cases (e.g. list/project templates).
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Anonymous
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Thanks in part to Omar's post back on October 1, I was able to do this, though not automatically! You should have a smart list named "Completed." (If you don't you'll need to go into Preferences and check "Completed" on the Lists tab.) Next choose the "Completed" list, and then from the main menu choose Edit | Select All and then Edit | Delete. You can also select all with Ctrl-A followed by the delete key. (You may need to use Command-Delete on a Mac.)
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Anonymous
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Accidently deleted all my flagged earlier than this week trying to clean up the earlier than this week folder which had hundreds of checked tasks. Now I don't know which ones are old AND forgotten.
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Anonymous
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Great idea.. waitin to see the feature. I don’t wanna delete completed lists. Pls help archive
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Florian Bugiel
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Hi, this idea is being checked for almost two years. Any results?
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Omar
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You can delete all you completed tasks. Click you profile settings > Smart List > Slide the “Complete Tasks” option > Go back to Home Screen > Go to Complete Tasks > Edit > Select All > Delete. You can also go through them and create an Archive list and move any/all the completed tasks you want you keep there before you delete them. I just don’t think you can keep them with it being “completed” and crossed out.
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Anonymous
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I agree with us all. I have thousands of Completed tasks dating back about 5 years, and the current Task Delete function will take forever to delete one by one. Most frustratingly, the Completed Tasks being so many of them, is now slowing down my ToDo app on mobile and PC :(
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Voon Kiat Gan
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This is a crucial feature for managing projects. Having a completed project still showing up doesn't make sense.
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Philip
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I would like to see a facility where bulk deletion of completed tasks can be done with one click. I can't understand why this is not available - it just seems such an obvious time consuming improvement that would benefit all users.