Why aren't tasks automatically moved to the Today folder?

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Hi,
I have tasks in Later or Upcoming, and even though the task date is currently long ago, they don’t move to the Today folder. It hasn’t worked for the last couple of weeks.

See screenshot Monosnap

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I think that recurring tasks are always reappearing in the Upcoming section. Eventually you can chage this in Settings → Hacks and let them reappearing in the Later section.

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Similarly, mine stopped moving from later to upcoming. It seems to be since I received the updated My Tasks functions.

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Hi folks :wave:t2: If you have been migrated to the new My Tasks already, you can make use of Custom Rules to auto-promote tasks :clap:t2:

Take a look at this Forum Leader tip by @lpb for some amazing tips on how to make best use of Custom Rules in My Tasks:

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My recurring tasks appear in Recently Assigned :frowning: A have Hack settings - Monosnap

But article Your Simple (or Advanced) Strategy for Asana’s Updated My Tasks | Larry Berger, Asana Consultant | Trilogi Solutions: Asana Consulting is goog for move between section (New, Today, Later …)

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I’m afraid that this is happening because the new version of My Tasks as @Rebecca_McGrath mentioned. You need to set your own rules and in the case of recurring tasks, the behavior you described, is unfortunatelly a part of new behaviour. Check and upvote this thread: Recurring tasks show as "Recently Assigned" in My Tasks

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Well this makes what should be a very simple thing another nightmare of constant fiddling, doesn’t Do we have to make a special rule for every task? I wanted to use this as a tracker for all my personal stuff, as well as my work projects, but this feels very user -unfriendly. I mean, having recurring tasks dependably show up the next time they are due is sort of the heart and soul of any planning app. I want to go to My Task list, both the expanded entire one, and the task list within each project and see everything by next due date, starting with today. I don’t want to see My tasks starting with every completed task first, with every completed task I have ever done. Please make the default view what the user wants to see, not what the programmer finds convenient, you know what I mean? This is the third app in the last three months that have done an”upgrade” which dramatically decreases the quality of the user interface. Ugh. If I wanted to constantly manually resort things, I would just do a spreadsheet. May I will go back to that. Very disappointed.

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Welcome, @Meredith_Russell-Fay,

My Tasks can be used in a variety of ways, including in the way you are asking for; it just takes a few seconds to one-time make those choices, which will be remembered automatically.

I recommend you read Asana’s Help on Miy Tasks:

In particular, make sure you set Filter (that can hide completed tasks as you request), Group by, and Sort.

Also, recognize that the posts in this thread that you are reacting to are three years old, and others are seeking different ways that they want to use My Tasks to suit them that don’t match your needs.

Thanks,

Larry