# This task already exists ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Ideas\ **Tags:** tasks\ **Created:** [30 March 2021 06:05 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/this-task-already-exists/115838 "2021-03-30T06:05:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Stern](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jonathan_stern/32/41897_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Stern](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jonathan_Stern)\ **Post date:** [30 March 2021 06:05 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/this-task-already-exists/115838/1 "2021-03-30T06:05:17Z")
Hi! Sometimes I have an idea 💡, and I quickly create a task for it so I do not forget about it. a few Month later I have that same idea again or someone else suggests it. It is not a priority so nothing has been done about it and the result is I create duplicate tasks in my project. 😔 I find duplicates that I have created a few month apart and that have coexisted for a while… Sometimes they have a very similar subject, sometimes it’s worded differently; one could be assigned to someone else, the other one to me. and I end up jotting ideas in both tasks. I realise it is my fault for creating the task twice but similar to when we create a new post in the Forum, it could be handy to have a warning: “_**Your topic (task) is similar to…**_” I realise this could be annoying every time you create a task and repetitive tasks would throw a spanner in the works. Upon re-reading myself, I wonder if this feature is really worth creating so instead I might ask the community: **Do you suffer from the same problem ?** cheers ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_McGrath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/rebecca_mcgrath/32/74508_2.png) [@Rebecca\_McGrath](https://forum.asana.com/u/Rebecca_McGrath)\ **Post date:** [30 March 2021 13:22 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/this-task-already-exists/115838/2 "2021-03-30T13:22:02Z")
2 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Auto-detect potential duplicate tasks in a project](https://forum.asana.com/t/auto-detect-potential-duplicate-tasks-in-a-project/90895) ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_McGrath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/rebecca_mcgrath/32/74508_2.png) [@Rebecca\_McGrath](https://forum.asana.com/u/Rebecca_McGrath)\ **Post date:** [30 March 2021 13:22 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/this-task-already-exists/115838/3 "2021-03-30T13:22:02Z")