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undo does not undo a duplicate task

nah.why says:
I duplicated a task.
Was the wrong task.
So I hit "undo".
The popup at the top said, "Note updated. Undo Ok."
So apparently it undid some note I had just edited. Unfortunately it had been an hour and I did not know what note it was.

I was surprised that "duplicate task" is not an action that can be undone.

Some things that would help me and others in this situation is:

1. instead of the menu entry being "Undo last action", it could change based on what that action was, like "Undo note update", or "Undo rename task." Many applications have this feature these days. That would allow the user to know ahead of time what they're undoing.

2. Allow and undo of the undo. For example, in regular operation when you update a note (or do almost anything) a popup appears saying "Note updated. Undo?" and the "Undo?" is clickable. If you made a mistake, you can just undo what you just did.

But if you undo something by mistake, the popup for the undo doesn't have an undo link to undo the undo. (How many times can I use "undo" in a single sentence?) Sometimes it's called in other apps, "redo".

Thanks for considering this.
Posted at 2:30pm on August 25, 2021
(closed account) says:
I agree!
This should be reposted in the Ideas forum so people can vote on it.
Posted 3 years ago
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
Hi nah.why,
Thanks for your feedback here!

Undoing will never undo the creation of a task, which is why this skips over the duplicate action. We appreciate your feedback that that is unexpected and how the rest of that affects your expectations too.

Option 1 seems like it could help manage expectations there, so thanks for that as well!

And yes, reposting this in the Ideas forum would be good for collecting votes/feedback around this idea, thanks again!
Posted 3 years ago
nah.why says:
Suggestion https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/27154/

for undo a duplicated task.
Posted 3 years ago
nah.why says:
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/27155/

for "change menu item "undo last action" to specify the last action that at will be undone"
Posted 3 years ago
nah.why says:
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/27156/

for "undo an undo"
Posted 3 years ago
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