Allow AI Planner to Schedule Tasks After Due Date
I'd like there to a setting that allows me to schedule time for tasks past their due date.
Not only do I often want to schedule time for overdue tasks in my work schedule, but the fact that the AI Planner won't schedule time for tasks on any days past their due date causes some issues.
As an example, if I have a task that needs 6 hours to complete that is due Thursday and I run the AI Planner to schedule it for Wednesday onwards, it will just fit in the time it can on Wednesday and Thursday but ignore Friday onwards completely (because it's past the due date), with no visual indication that I'm at risk of missing that deadline because I haven't scheduled enough time for it. There's no way for me to tell whether Morgen has actually scheduled the full amount of estimated time as it just stops scheduling anything after the due date.
If I could see that scheduled time is 'leaking' over to days beyond the due date (perhaps with coloured time blocks to show it's after the due date?), it would help me change my schedule to accommodate.
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Frank
May 6, 2025
Hello everyone, thank you for realizing this request. I find this very helpful.
I have one additional idea:
When tasks are scheduled after their due date without the AI planner, Morgen asks whether the due date should be adjusted.
Can you implement a similar function also in the AI planner?
Danny Hatcher (Customer Support)
May 7, 2025
Frank I have created a new request for this: https://morgen.canny.io/feature-requests/p/due-date-warning-with-the-ai-planner
Mar 26, 2025
Marco Ancona (Morgen co-founder)
Mar 26, 2025
This has been added in 3.6.10
Mar 21, 2025
We have been working on improving this.
In the next release, we are planning to allow AI Planner to schedule tasks beyond the due date if there is no other feasible time. At the same time, tasks scheduled or suggested after their due date will be visually distinctive.
If you'd like to give this a try as early testers, you join our Discord Insiders channel https://discord.gg/SjxbhGvu
Your feedback would be much appreciated!
Mark
Mar 22, 2025
Marco Ancona (Morgen co-founder) This is great news. I'll sign up for the insiders channel now.
Feb 20, 2025
Danny Hatcher (Customer Support)
Feb 20, 2025
This sounds like a request to see how much time is left on a task estimate.
Is that correct?
Mark
Feb 20, 2025
Danny Hatcher (Customer Support) No, not exactly. It is a request for the AI Planner to allow for scheduling time past the due date, but for it to warn you this is happening. Because showing time left on a task estimate would help with this, that would be a great feature too. Time left on tasks is something Reclaim does and it's a feature I definitely miss.
Zac
Feb 13, 2025
This is critical. The fact that something overdue doesn't get scheduled is a clear bug, and absolutely degrades Morgen's utility. If it's not "done" it needs to get scheduled!
Danny Hatcher (Customer Support)
Feb 20, 2025
Zac: Interesting. I see this as a flaw.
If I have a task due on Wednesday but plan on Monday Morgen could suggest the task on Thursday.
This is something I would want to avoid.
Currently if there is no space available the task will appear in the right side list for my attention.
Do you not see this as an issue?
Mark
Feb 20, 2025
Danny Hatcher (Customer Support) Sorry to cut in on this. OP here.
I don't see it scheduling on Thursday as an issue, provided Morgen gives sufficient information about what's happening. At the moment, it won't schedule it at all, which I don't find useful.
I'm not quite sure why it can't be a combination of what's currently in there, but just with more flexibility and transparency. If the AI Planner adds a time block past the due date, it could flash a different colour and still have that message in the right side list warning you of what's happening. This would give you the same info that's already there while allowing for greater flexibility.
I'm coming from Reclaim, which I feel like does this well. It schedules all the estimated hours (the fact that Morgen doesn't do this and doesn't tell you is a big issue raised in my original post) but then tells you 'X task is in danger of missing its due date'. And you can either deal with it if it's a soft due date, or adjust to hit that due date.
Zac
Feb 21, 2025
Danny Hatcher (Customer Support) it needs to prioritize correctly. In your example it should try to schedule the task before it’s due date if at all possible, but keep scheduling it beyond of it must.
My issue is that once the available time is consumed, Morgen stops trying to schedule the task. It forgets about it. Which is terrible because the task is still there and I still have to do it. The fact that there’s too much to do doesn’t mean we can ignore the work. Quite the opposite!
*** If anything Morgan should be drawing more attention to the fact that there isn’t enough time! *** Turn the task red or something. Help me realize there’s a problem, NOT hide the problem.
I like @Mark’s comments. On point.