Date and due date

[sudoremo]

First off, thank you!

Thanks so much for building aven — it's a genuinely beautiful TUI and a really promising task manager. I've been enjoying it a lot. 🙏

What I'm missing

I'd love a way to work with dates on tasks, and in particular a distinction between two separate concepts (apologies if this already exists and I've simply missed it!):

1. Due date — an optional deadline for when a task actually needs to be done.
2. Defer / scheduled date — a separate, optional date that hides a task from my active list and brings it back into view later.

The two are independent: a task might have no deadline at all, but I still want to get it out of my way and have it resurface in, say, "2 weeks".

Prior art

Things 3 handles this really nicely, and it's the model I keep reaching for:

• A task can have a "When" date (defer/schedule) and a separate "Deadline" (due date).
• The date picker accepts fuzzy input like tomorrow, in 2 weeks, or next monday, which is especially natural in a keyboard-driven TUI.

The workflow I'm after

Capture a task, defer it to some future date so it stops cluttering my current view, and have it automatically reappear when that date arrives — optionally with its own due date on top.

Is something like this already planned, or on your radar? Either way, thanks again for the great work! Happy to help sketch out details if useful.

[raine]

Hey, thanks for the thoughtful feedback

As it happens, some time ago I had a use case for deferred tasks and have a branch somewhat ready, but it has not made it to main yet. It adds an available_at field that hides future tasks from views, provides an Upcoming view, and shows them again when they become available. I considered due dates as well but not implemented yet.

Your feedback is a helpful signal that this workflow is worth supporting - I wasn't sure yet. Thank you

[raine]

There's now in the latest release:

• Availability defers a task, hides it from normal work views, and resurfaces it when the time arrives. Deferred tasks remain accessible through Upcoming.
• Due dates are independent date-only deadlines. They never control visibility or change task status, and overdue tasks are available through the Overdue view.

https://aven.raine.dev/concepts/#availability-and-due-dates

https://aven.raine.dev/command-reference/#availability-input

If you get to use it, happy to hear feedback how it works and if it can be improved