Detect and suggest duplicate/similar tasks during task creation
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Mike O
As I've become more accustomed to quickly capturing things I want to work on in Sunsama, I've noticed a tendency to create duplicate or highly similar tasks. These duplicates often end up scattered across my archive, snoozed items, or backlog, leading to clutter and inefficiency.
Feature request: Implement a "searching is creating" approach during task creation.
Specifically:
- As users type a new task title, perform a real-time search across all areas (current week, backlog, archive, snoozed).
- Display a list of potentially similar or duplicate tasks.
- Allow users to either create the new task or navigate to an existing one.
This feature would be game-changing!
Workaround:
- always Search for related tasks before creating a new one
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
PREVENT DUPLICATIONS
Daniel Friedman
Tools like to doist will suggest other relevant tasks ask you're typing, to help prevent you from adding the same thing again. This is particularly important with Sunsama given how you "pull tasks in" from other apps.
Kam Kuo
I second this... one place I would love to see this implemented is when adding new tasks. As you type the task title, a search could be performed against existing tasks, especially against backlog and archived ones, allowing you to bring those back instead of creating a duplicate.