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Ability to merge tasks

(closed account) says:
In addition to nesting tasks, combining existing tasks might be usefull to.

Sometimes I get multiple mails about the same problem or issue. I create a task for each of them to keep track of whom I need to inform. Combining these tasks into one task would make things clearer.

Off course this implies to show a list of mails instead of one mail when clicking on the mail-icon in the gmail-addon or another solution to make this userfriendly.
Posted at 9:46am on March 3, 2009
(closed account) says:
oh, this is a good idea!
Posted 15 years ago
kiraldo2 says:
Yes! Is this possible now?
Posted 13 years ago
jdownie says:
This would be handy. Would it just combine the note collection and append a new note detailing the header information of the two tasks that were merged? Which task would become the new task's header information?
Posted 12 years ago
pillingm says:
I've been trying to find if there is a way to make tasks dependent on each other in RTM. e.g. A->B means you must finish task A to do task B.

If that is possible, I'd just make all the multiple tasks prerequisites for the completion task for this set.
Posted 11 years ago
lawrence.mitchell says:
Can you merge tasks now?
Posted 8 years ago
debuck3 says:
Another use case for being able to merge tasks: I had one task start out as a manually added task and then created a task with an Evernote reminder along the same topic. I want the Evernote link, plus the notes from the original task. Couldn't merge them, so I just copied the notes from one task to the one linked with Evernote. That was tedious but did the trick. A merge tasks option would be brilliant!
Posted 7 years ago
jasonshicks says:
It would be cool to merge tasks. Perhaps one task evolves and actually aligns with another task, but both tasks have multiple notes, subtasks, etc. Instead of re-entering them all, it would be cool to be able to merge one task into the other, and choose to keep all notes, some notes, sub-tasks, etc. so you don't loose the details
Posted 7 years ago
davidherrold says:
This would be a great feature. I frequently forward emails to my RTM account and sometimes separate tasks are related, but the email subject lines are different - so different tasks get created. It would be great to be able to merge those tasks together.
Posted 5 years ago
phiiip says:
is this possible now?
Posted 4 years ago
mkazmer says:
This would be an enormously helpful feature -- for all the reasons lists. I endorse this need!
Posted 4 years ago
mmoore100 says:
I occasionally find that I've created (and updated) a task when one already exists. I manually copy over all the notes to one of the tasks, which can be time consuming, plus there's no way to keep them in chronological order unless I create a third task and manually copy them in the correct order and manually enter the date/time for each note.

I'd like to be able to say something like "Merge task A and B into a new task, task C. List the notes in chronological order with the date and time taken from the original note."

If I could do at least that much, I could manually edit the header information (due date, list name, tags, and so on).
Posted 4 years ago
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