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    John Kim Murphy commented  · 

    If it makes this feature more worthy of implementation, my use case is more generalized. I call my idea "deep tags" because they are an extension of TaskPaper tags, where a due date would be marked with a tag like "@due(2019-08-08)".

    I wish an item could have an additional due date which is based on the value of child items as described others here. I will call this tag "#due" using a '#' sign to indicate it's a deep tag. However, it could be called anything, like "@effectiveDue" or "nextDue".

    This concept could be extended to other deep tags: #count, #min, #max, #sum, #avg, etc... You could even have user-defined deep tags by running a script that looks like deepTagName(defaultValue, item, childItems[]){ CODE}.

    Besides the due date use case discussed by others, here's a use case for #count. Your sales pipeline has many stages and you tag where each prospect is in the pipeline (like: "idea", "gather contact info", "touch", "demo", "won", "lost".) The deep tags like #count(idea), #count(touch), #count(won) would automatically count how many are at each stage, which is valuable information.

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    John Kim Murphy commented  · 

    I would also like to be able to sort by this date. So a long-term parent task like "read book by next week" can be "bumped up" in the sort order by adding a child task like "read chapter 1 by tomorrow."

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