As the developers, this I think is one of these issues that is impossible to solve perfectly - so take mine as only a single opinion (I have no fear that the team is already good at this!). Overall you guys are doing a stellar job with these sorts of issues.
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Originally Posted by Ken Case
Let's say you have a project called "Write term paper" which is due this week. If you haven't entered any actions for that project yet, don't you still want to see that it's coming due? Or perhaps you've entered a few actions ("Buy pencil and paper") and completed them; unless those actions completed the project, it's still coming due!
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Good point, how hard would it be to use the project due date towards the badge count if the project was empty, but not if there were actions (even if none of them had due dates).
This would cover the "unplanned" project scenario, but not the trivial items completed scenario. I think having the project count if there are actions without due dates would still lead to the confusion of "What
specifically do I need to do (action-wise) by today/soon".
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Originally Posted by Ken Case
If you're certain you've already entered all the actions for a project and you don't want it to have an independent reminder of its due status, you could assign a due date to the last action rather than to the project itself.
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Like you say, this requires full planning. I guess it just doesn't feel right. Either way you go, there is going to be some uncertainty and confusion, but I feel the "count toward badge" mode is going to be more confusing and harder to document: "The badge shows the number of actions and/or the project itself (if due)"
I guess I've said my piece, I don't know if this had been hashed out by other users earlier on, but I'll let others weigh in on it if they wish.
-P