Auto Sort Reverses Due Dates

[Ryan DeShone]

In the latest version of Astrid, auto sort doesn't work as would be expected. After selecting Auto Sort, the highest priority events are shown at the top of the list as expected however events that have the same priority but have due dates are sorted with the furthest deadline at the top. This seems to be the reverse of what I would expect. If this is done on purpose for some reason then I would suggest adding an option to have auto sort reverse only the deadline sorting so that users can choose if they want the soonest deadline closer to the top or vice versa.

[Tim Su (tim-todoroo)]

I think I've figured this one out. Is it true that the task that appears higher on the list has an "absolute deadline" set, while the task that appears lower has a "goal deadline"? There is a slight bump in priority for tasks with absolute deadlines.

This is confusing, and one of the reasons the two-deadline thing is going away for 3.0. If this is not the case, please let me know / reopen the bug.

[Ryan DeShone (rfdeshon)]

Actually, all events that I have only have absolute deadlines, none of them have goal deadlines set. Some of the items are actually in the correct order and some are not now that I look at it. In my current todo list, for instance, the items that all have the ! priority are showing in the following order.

4 days
Dec 30
Dec 27
Jan 15
Feb 1
Feb 1
Jan 15
Then all of my items with no deadline.

I suppose I should note that all of these tasks are being synced from Remember the Milk, I don't know if that makes a difference.

[Tim Su (tim-todoroo)]

sad times... I will try again to reproduce this issue with the dates you have indicated, and if unable, I'll send you a special build that adds some debugging information to help me out.