Vacation, Holiday, OOO, sick leave mode
Shahar Har-Shuv
I think Sunsama definitely needs something similar to that. I want to suggest something more specific that can solve it and allow for more things:
I think you should be able to override your schedule (for a specific context or all contexts) for specific days. Then - your tasks should behave differently (roll over automatically) if you have marked some days as "unavailable"
Kate Pettersson
This would be amazing. There is nothing worse than the dreaded return to the desk and building the to do list all over. I would love a "handover" feature, where OOO is planned into AI and there is a reminder to check in and plan who is taking over tasks whilst you are OOO
Megan Tucker
I am back from a vacation today, and wish I could see something that celebrated my return and affirmed me for taking time away from work. In our culture of stress and workaholism...I'd like something like that. :) It would be cool to have some sort of function that helped you think through time away and how to jump back in well. I think I remember reading a blog post about coming back after being gone, so I know you all think about those things. I'd love to someday see some cool features around it!
Eva Lovasco
Was looking at the help files to see if this was a thing, and found a spot where it looks like a Loom was going to be posted, but the one about managing Slack was posted twice? Is it possible to get that video in the meantime, please?
Alex Cunningham
Eva Lovasco: Oh gosh, thanks for pointing this out! I've fixed it! https://help.sunsama.com/docs/miscellaneous-pro-tips#how-to-manage-your-tasks-ahead-of-vacation-or-ooo-days
Tadas Antanavicius
A subset of this request, but related: I'd love for the ability to "pause recurring task until X date"
I have a lot of daily and weekly tasks, like "check email" and "review analytics". When I'm taking a two week vacation, right now I go through and delete all these recurring tasks one day at a time.
I don't want to "delete recurring task" full stop because I don't want to lose my routine setup for when I get back. I also wouldn't want a "pause ALL tasks until X date" because I still use Sunsama to track personal habits and chores, even when I'm not working.
A "pause this task until X date" would enable me to much more efficiently clear my calendar for two weeks since I would only need to review and pause/delete every task once to clear my plate.
Shahar Har-Shuv
Tadas Antanavicius I think you actually want to "remove all repeating (or all of specific contexts) tasks for specific dates". Doing it task by task is not the best approach UX-wise.
"Pausing" a repeating task could be useful though for different reasons. Like if you are in a time where you have less time to do X, but you want to keep the settings so you can turn it on later.
Tadas Antanavicius
Shahar Har-Shuv In my case, I do want to do it task-by-task. I don't have a hard rule like "all repeating tasks in context X need to be postponed, and all repeating tasks in context Y should be retained". e.g. "Check Email (#work)" daily might depend on whether or not I'm taking an "unplugged" vacation; and "Read Newsletters (#personal)" depends on whether I expect to have enough downtime on my time off.
Shahar Har-Shuv
Tadas Antanavicius So isn't it more "per context" or "per channel"?
Tadas Antanavicius
Shahar Har-Shuv How so? Every task may be different regardless of its context/channel.
Shahar Har-Shuv
Tadas Antanavicius Seems like I don't fully understand your use case. I was imagining that if you are taking of from work you might still need want to do personal work, or perhaps you'll have a different channels for personal work that is essential and others that are optional.
In any case, I think there is value in being able to do it both for task by task basis (pause this task until X) and channel by channel basis.
Allowing you to override schedule in a more granual approach, will enable you to mark "short days" in which you leave office early, which is another benefit that a simple "pause" feature will not satisfy.
Tadas Antanavicius
Shahar Har-Shuv I agree there may be value for some people with more well-defined channels to do it on a per-channel basis. In my case, I do want to review every task I am deferring during my time off (with the original ask in mind: I only want to address each recurring task once). So ideally both features ((1) "postpone recurring task until X" and (2) "postpone tasks in channel Y until X") would exist; I personally am more interested in the first one
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
Weekend / Vacation / Sick leave mode
Bohdan Drozdov
1) All tasks from Friday are moving to Saturday. Would be great if they will be moved to Monday.
2) When I am sick or have a day off I need to move my tasks manually
Pınar Güler
Having all tasks rolling back to the day you get back from vacation is nice. But I'd rather have my recurring tasks (like daily planning, daily triage, etc.) removed completely on the days that I'm on vacation. So I'd suggest adding a checkbox like "Do you want to roll back your recurring tasks?" when users are setting the holiday mode.
Tobias Cloppenburg-Baumann
Uh - with christmas vacation coming up for me, that would be great! Obviously applys to all types of vacations :-)
hairboat
Yesss. When I'm going on vacation, all tasks and objectives should get pushed back by [vacation duration], and snooze all daily/weekly ritual prompts until the day I'm back.
For extra credit, have Sunsama help me plan for my vacation. Maybe I could mark some objectives as "need to be done before I can go on vacation". Would also love to have the planning rituals know about my vacation - rather than "what can get punted to next week" it could ask "what can wait until after vacation" if I have one coming up next week - etc.
Tobias Cloppenburg-Baumann
going into vacation - this is becoming ever more urgent. I am planning out my private as well as my work time with sunsama - and having an option to not repeat certain tasks from certain context for a set period of time would just be awesome!
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