Planner: Start Date
Currently, when tasks are assigned to me in ClickUp or Linear, they sync seamlessly with Morgen, which is great. However, when using the AI planner, tasks are scheduled mostly based on due dates and Morgen’s smart scheduling engine.
The issue arises when I may not actually be able to work on a task until a specific future date—or I may not even want to think about it until then.
For example, if today is Friday and I assign my team a task to design something, I know they’ll be working on it today, Monday, and maybe Tuesday. I might set a due date for the following Friday, as I need to review it by then. However, I don’t want it scheduled in my AI planner until at least Wednesday.
Right now, Morgen tries to schedule it earlier than I actually need it or can physically work on it.
I know I can simply right-click and say 'Ignore Task', but that involves me having to review the task details to see if it's something I can or can't work on which takes away from the magic of the AI planner.
Proposed Solution:
Introduce a "Defer Until" field (or "Start Date") for tasks in Morgen’s AI planner. This would seamlessly map to Clickup's Start Date.
This would allow users to specify a date before which the AI should ignore the task for scheduling purposes. If the date is set to February 14th, for example, the task would not be considered in the AI planner until that day.
Benefits
Reduces cognitive overload by ensuring tasks only appear when they are actually actionable.
Prevents premature scheduling of tasks I’m not ready to work on.
Improves AI task prioritization by only scheduling tasks I can work on.
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Comments29
Aaron Wade
Sep 29, 2024
Brenna told me this in a support request: "Morgen has always treated scheduled dates as the time outlined in the calendar to work on the task." To me, this is exactly the field you want to integrate into your calendar, for time blocking purposes. I use relatively few Due dates, because that is reserved for an external authority. Time blocking and planning my day revolves around when I decide to work on a task, which is the Scheduled date field.
Daniel
Sep 29, 2024
I agree with the importance of "scheduled dates" in the Obsidian integration, but rather have a different need: If I schedule a task in Morgen, I want Obsidian to know about when I scheduled it. I.e. I want Morgen to update the scheduled date for the Obsidian task in Obsidian.
Jonathan
May 24, 2025
Adding my voice to the choir that this feature would be incredibly helpful. In addition to having a "Start Date" field, it would be great if tasks could be linked.
For example lets say I have a deliverable with multiple dates - Draft due in June and Final version in July. I might add two tasks (Work on First Draft - 5 hours + Work on Final Draft - 3 hours).
In addition to having a "Start Date" as proposed - it would be a huge boon to be able to tell Morgen to not schedule working on the 2nd task until after the 1st part of the task is complete.
That way if dates shift or something in the first task takes longer than expected, the AI Scheduler could take that into account when scheduling the 2nd linked task.
Feb 19, 2025
Nate
Feb 17, 2025
This would be a huge value-add. Currently, if setting a start/end time within Notion, it doesn't place the task on the day in question within Morgen nor does it time-block the task, even though the date + start/end time is visible on the task's labels within Morgen. If the task is then placed on the calendar manually (which we have to do for it to be time-blocked on the calendar) Morgen updates the entire due date within Notion.
John Mavrick
Feb 14, 2025
This would be nice. I have scheduled tasks to replace my toothbrush every three months, and sometimes when I run out of tasks to suggest I see it in there but there is no way to not include it 😅
Paul
Feb 12, 2025
There was a post in Discord from Srovex who said…
"I have monthly recurring tasks (check invoices, etc) in obsidian. Let's say I have to do it every 28th of month. Now if I use AI planner, and I have these task marked as important Morgen will fetch the next available and schedule it on the next free slot. So now I already have March invoices task scheduled for next week which is not optimal as the task name itself doesn't differentiate the months."
Máté
Feb 5, 2025
I recon this is a complex topic and perhaps hard to implement, but I see a potential quick win here: to sync scheduled dates to Morgen and have that available as ordering and filtering.
That would already be a day a night difference working with Obsidian's Tasks plugin (where scheduled dates are the time outlined in the calendar to work on the task).
Danny Hatcher (Customer Support) let me know if this quick win should be a separate feature request. I am also interested where this whole feature is blocked and if we can contribute to the solution.
Jan 29, 2025
schmitzheinen694
Jan 27, 2025
I would also love to have scheduled tasks in the sidebar and the calendar as label since many of my tasks have a due date (deadline), yet I would like to start the task way earlier.
Maybe, it is possible to make it even more flexible and add "arbitrary" dates, where the user can decide to have them shown in the sidebar or calendar or not. I could imagine the start date or the scheduled date.