Postpone a task (different from snooze an alarm)
I would like the possibility to postpone a task. I admit, this is an obvious danger for procrastinators, however, it is not so dangerous if we consider how it would be applied.
Most important, in my opinion, are tasks that are scheduled long in advance or recurring tasks with intervals of weeks, months or even years, because the situation can change over time allowing us to legitimately postpone a task. Otherwise these tasks will just be a distraction in our "Active Actions" view.
Individual tasks can have their due date modified, however, a postpone feature would arguably be most useful to postpone one recurrence of a recurring task.
We could create a custom view that is filtered on a "postponed" flag, however, as far as I know, flags are not (yet) supported in the MLO mobile apps. I've also seen one suggestion of creating a subtask with a future due date, however, this depends on us remembering to manually manage this subtask for future recurrences. In any case, perhaps this may be a common enough requirement to incorporate it into the default "Active Actions" view.
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Ian commented
By the way, I'd rather not use reminders / alarms / alerts. Perhaps reminders are the intended way to manage this. Unless I specifically want to receive an alert, however, I don't particularly want to manage yet another property when the Due date or Computed-Score (for "Active Actions" view) should be enough. In other words, my "Active Actions" view *is* my set of reminders.