From 6b9847bf7f72eb9fa9da749f5043e8a91a1977ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: neingeist <neingeist@bl0rg.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:49:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=E2=9C=A8=20task-recurring-postpone:=20Postpone?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20duplicate=20recurring=20tasks?=
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 README.md               | 12 ++++++++++--
 task-recurring-postpone | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 task-recurring-postpone

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f267bcb..b461316 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
+task-recurring-delete
+---------------------
 Delete all overdue, recurring and duplicate taskwarrior tasks and keep only the
 first of a kind.
 
-Needs the taskw Python bindings to run.
+task-recurring-postpone
+-----------------------
+Postpone recurring task dupes to tomorrow and keep only two per parent task.
 
-This is a workaround for this issue: https://bug.tasktools.org/browse/TW-1314
+
+<hr/>
+
+Need the taskw Python bindings to run.  These are workarounds for this issue:
+https://bug.tasktools.org/browse/TW-1314.
diff --git a/task-recurring-postpone b/task-recurring-postpone
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3b55a3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/task-recurring-postpone
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+import datetime
+from taskw import TaskWarrior
+from pprint import pprint
+from operator import itemgetter
+from itertools import groupby
+
+
+w = TaskWarrior(marshal=True)
+tasks = w.load_tasks()["pending"]
+tasks = list(filter(lambda t: t.get("status") == "pending", tasks))
+
+# Recurring tasks have a "parent"
+tasks = list(filter(lambda t: t.get("parent") is not None, tasks))
+
+for k, g in groupby(sorted(tasks, key=itemgetter("parent")), key=itemgetter("parent")):
+    # Postpone all but the two most urgent tasks
+    to_postpone = sorted(g, key=itemgetter("urgency"))[:-2]
+    if not to_postpone:
+        continue
+
+    print(f"Postponing {len(to_postpone)}x {to_postpone[0]['description']}")
+    for t in to_postpone:
+        t["status"] = "waiting"
+        t["wait"] = datetime.datetime.combine(datetime.date.today(), datetime.datetime.min.time()) \
+                        + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
+        w.task_update(t)