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Ability to copy list of completed tasks (aka bring back Daily Shutdown option)

Sami W

It would be really useful to have a way we can export a simple list of the tasks we've done (with sub-tasks).
Then if the structured format of the Highlights isn't what we need, we have the option to rework/format that however we need.
The new AI generated Daily Highlights is exciting, but it's unsuitable for my end of day (for now :)).
The old, simple list of tasks was much better for me to generate my list from - I'm careful to input everything I need to log into Sunsama during the day and that's my most valuable list of "done" things.

January 15, 2025

Sami W

In case anyone else would like this, I've found a partial decent workaround - the "Timeline" on the right hand side of the new Daily Highlights is copyable.

You still need to manually check for and add sub tasks.

Alex Cunningham

Sami W Hey Sami, thanks for this. For what it's worth, it should fairly quick to create a daily highlight that just includes the tasks you worked on and nothing else, which you can then still post to slack, send somewhere else, or even copy the markdown for. Here's what I mean: https://www.loom.com/share/9634f853289042398105609157d817da
But you're right that subtasks aren't included there. But if you summarize a task that had subtasks, that should be listed fairly accurately. 
Reach out in support if you have any issues with this, or if this is not a good solution for you.

Alex Cunningham

And sorry, I should have mentioned: In the Daily Highlight screen, click the "Share" button and you can copy the markdown of the highlight, which will list your included tasks.

Sami W

Thanks Alex Cunningham .
I spoke with some of you guys on support during the beta so I'm fairly ofay with the options. Even if I get lazy about my update and not worry too much - it takes me at least 4 times as long to do it now than it did before and takes much more effort.
The way it comes out in Slack now (compared to before) is much more complicated than before and not suitable for my workplace.
For anyone else who misses being able to group their end of days (instead of having a single list) you can drag and drop things into groups in Daily Highlights which is cool.
One of the other workarounds I tried in December (for anyone else who might find it useful) is that you can disable formatting in Slack and instead have it parse the markdown (see Alex's video for an example of copying it ou)
For the end of days, that was the easiest way to still use Sunsama for it - but it meant some not having Slack formatting the rest of the day.
For me, sadly, then end of day has gone from being absolutly perfect, to mostly useless (it's also changed from being very keyboard friendly, to lots of point and click with the mouse - another personal preference that doesn't work for me)
Hence the request for an option to easily copy the list out like the old one.
I know most people won't have such a big swing an the Daily Highlights does have some potential to be useful.

Alex Cunningham

Sami W Thanks Sami for this. I may have forgotten one other thing to show you: you can change the formatting of the automatic posting to Slack from "rich" to "bulleted": https://www.loom.com/share/7e73342b4562439cbee1e39dbed2cde4

Apologies if you already made that change and that's what you meant by "disabling formatting" in Slack, but wanted to show you just inc ase.

Sami W

Thanks Alex Cunningham - I didn't know about that setting but I would use it if I do start using the Daily Highlights again.

I was actually referring to the setting in Slack which, combined with Sunsama's ability to output Markdown (instaed of automatically posting) might help some people who want to customise things before posting to Slack.