Done checkbox / Status Confusion

[Shampra]

@ccrawford

Yeah this confused me too. The done checkbox should be connected to the status relation similar to how notion works. That way you can check it off and it will mark that status as “done.”

I don’t think, because status because it can be used for many things. Like in Notion by default :

But a “calculated” relation can be useful, so more with this FR :

Derived Relations ( Formulas )

This is so essential that I was surprised it wasn’t already supported. Some of the ways I’ve used it in Notion: progress bars, like percentage of completed tasks within an epic formatting raw columns into display columns date manipulation (like calculating next due date based on last done date) converting dates to durations (which update dynamically with a now() value) combining multiple columns into a single score value combining multiple columns into a single column that can then be used to …