Subtasks are functionally not even subtasks ...?!

Hi @markob -

Thank you for your feedback. In Quire, we try to keep it as flexible for our users as possible. You can set different dates to the parent task and its subtasks.

When you group by Date, there will be cases where the parent task and its subtasks are in separated groups. You can then toggle on the Advanced mode (hit Ctrl for Windows and Alt for Mac) to see the breadcrumbs and the task path.

Feel free to let us know your thoughts and questions, thanks!

This is very counterintuitive to me as well. If I have a deeply nested tree of tasks and I want to set it as urgent, I would have to manually set urgent on all subtasks throughout the tree in order to move the whole thing into urgent. At least that's how I'm understanding the behavior I'm seeing. This would be tedious to the point of impossible for a really deep tree.

Hi @dbstraight - Sorry for the late reply. I understand how this might be frustrating for you. Could you please let me know more about your expected behavior, I will pass them to our team for discussion.

For example, do you wish the subtasks should inherit all the settings of the parent task (e.g. have the same dates, priority, tags, assignees as the parent task)? Would love to know your thoughts. Thank you.

I think it probably depends on use case, and I think there may be a simpler change that will work for me.

Basically I'm using subtasks to describe the steps needed to complete a task. They all have to be done to complete the task and it doesn't make much sense to prioritize them separately from main task. They should also always be viewed along with main task. So in that case, it makes total sense that when changing priority of main task, subtask priority would change too.

But I can also imagine using subtasks for tasks under a big project and then the project priority would be at a different level than the task priority and it would make sense to be able to set them separately.

I think the easy way out is to provide a way to select a task and all its descendants with keyboard shortcut like you can hold shift and press down to select multiple items in a sequence. If it was quick and easy to select the whole tree under a task and change its priority that way, then for people using it like I am, there's an easy way to get the functionality they want, while still leaving the potential for separate priority levels within a task's tree for those who have that use case.

Worth noting too... when you create a new subtask it inherits the priority of the parent task. That does seem to create an expectation that those are linked in some way, but I can understand that isn't how everyone wants to use Quire.

Hi @dbstraight - Thank for your explanation. I agree with you that this depends on use case. I will let our team know about your suggestions for the keyboard shortcut and keep you updated if I have news.

Hi @dbstraight - Great news!

I think the easy way out is to provide a way to select a task and all its descendants with keyboard shortcut like you can hold shift and press down to select multiple items in a sequence.

We have made an update for this! In the newest update, when you right click on a task, you can select all its subtasks at once if it has any. (Or you can hit Ctrl + E for this.) I hope this solves your problem.

Please let me know if this is helpful or if you have any other questions, thank you! 😜

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Seems you guys sacrificed sensible functionality for potentially too much back end flexibility - you'll end up with a product that does nothing, because it can do everything.