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cseth0
I personally find that completed tasks clutter my tasklist and start to feel overwhelming. The current solution I've found is to manually click them, wait for it to load, and then archive them to hide them from my screen, which is a hassle. While I recognize that it is sometimes useful to see your which tasks you've completed, I would prefer if they were hidden into a "completed" category by default. That way, I dont have to scroll for a while on long tasklists. Here's another solution if that one sounds too involved: even if the task's background color was simply greyed out, I could quickly scan the page to see what I need to work on now without accidentally reading tasks that I've already completed.
I get the feeling that this incredibly useful program was made because you, and tons of other people, like to stay organized. I hope my feedback can help people acheive that easier. I love what you've built here and I'm thankful that you take feedback.
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Dane Poyzer
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Dane Poyzer
Hi cseth0 — thanks again for raising this.
I've now released several improvements based on your feedback.
Completed tasks are visually quieter: deadlines, priorities, time estimates, and completed dependencies no longer compete with active work, while their metadata remains available when it provides useful context—for example, when viewing all high-priority tasks.
I've also added an optional “Hide completed tasks by default” setting. When enabled, dypt automatically selects 'Not started' and 'In progress' in ordinary task and calendar views, while still making it clear when completed tasks are being shown explicitly. The setting is off by default, so existing behaviour doesn’t change unless you enable it.
You can read the full update here: https://dypt.app/changes
Thanks for helping shape this—it led to a much more considered treatment of completed work throughout the app.
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cseth0
Dane Poyzer Thank you for actively improving your product. I’ll let you know if anything stands out in the future.
Dane Poyzer
First, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback. I greatly appreciate it.
So you can already get this behaviour by toggling off ‘completed’ (I.e just selecting in progress and not started) from the status filter or from the drop down toggle menu.
Doing this will allow you to see just tasks remaining without having to archive them first if you don’t want to.
However, this isn’t the default view, you consciously choose this by setting the filters as you like.
On metadata for completed tasks (eg deadlines / priorities), once you complete a task, they should be excluded from the quick filter buttons that you see on the dash board. Eg clicking the high box on the dash should take you to just high tasks that aren’t yet completed. Does it not do this for you?
In short the goal of dypt is that you should be able to see which ever combination of tasks you want based on the combination of filters you apply. The dashboard buttons are ‘quick shortcuts’ to common filter views if they makes sense?
One thing I do want to add is ‘custom views’ which are preset filter combinations you can save and easily select or even set one as your default view. Would that help you? It would mean you can configure your default exactly as you want. Eg don’t show me completed tasks etc
cseth0
Dane Poyzer Thank you for pointing that out. All I need to do now is delete archived and completed tasks every now and then so that I dont approach my task limit. But now that you reminded me about the filters, I can do that quickly.
Dane Poyzer
cseth0: Yes exactly, filters work great in combination with bulk select mode. You can use them to filter to just the tasks you want to apply an action too, then use bulk mode, select all, and apply the same action in one go to just those tasks :)
cseth0
Because what I'm about to say is so closely related to this topic, I'll post it here:
When a task is completed, any deadlines, priority levels, etc. should be hidden/disabled. I found that a lot of my completed tasks were marked as overdue or still marked as high-priority, which distracts me from the pending tasks that have those same properties.