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Add possibility to snooze tasks
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Problem: Overwhelming lists of (assigned) tasks steal focus. Cleaning out the list of tasks on your dashboard in an Inbox-Zero style is not really possible with stock Phabricator, drawing my attention to the same tasks over and over again.

Inspired by Google's Inbox we put together a UserScript that adds the ability to snooze/hide tasks.
Internal feedback is great so far, but it is rather a prototype/proof-of-concept that should be incorporated into Phabricator properly.

Do you think tracking the addition of some kind of snooze feature as Feature Request is useful/promising?
Would you just leave the UserScript as-is and maybe add a link to it on Community Resources?

The UserScript is available at https://github.com/jcbachmann/phabricator-snooze-demo
and can be tested on https://secure.phabricator.com or really any other Phabricator instance.

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mna created this task.Sep 7 2016, 5:22 PM
avivey added a subscriber: avivey.Sep 7 2016, 5:36 PM

Why are you trying to snooze a task? Why don't you just, you know, do the thing?

ftdysa added a subscriber: ftdysa.Sep 7 2016, 6:01 PM

Also, if you just want to look at a subset of tasks you can always create a query panel using flags on your dashboard and flag the tasks you care about. I've been doing that lately and it feels pretty good to me.

chad closed this task as Invalid.EditedSep 7 2016, 8:00 PM
chad added a subscriber: chad.

Problem: Overwhelming lists of (assigned) tasks steal focus.

Can you explain this problem better? Please see Contributing Feature Requests and Describing Root Problems. I don't see how hiding a task temporarily helps you better manage an overload of tasks.

In general if you are having difficulty managing large amounts of tasks, Ponder is a better place to ask for help than filing a feature request.

chad added a comment.Sep 7 2016, 8:07 PM

I am marking this invalid, but we're happy to re-open if you can clearly describe your workflow and why Dashboards / Saved Queries / Flags / Tags / Herald, etc, are unable to solve your problems. We currently manage thousands of open tasks here between two developers, and we're not currently experiencing any issues with workload.

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