When a task can't be scheduled before its deadline, FlowSavvy either schedules it after its deadline or "ignores" it and doesn't schedule it at all. This article talks about how each of these options work, and how to change this behavior for each task.

An "ignored" task is a task that is not being scheduled because it could not be scheduled before its deadline. This purpose of this feature is to prevent repeating tasks from stacking up multiple times on one day. For example, if you take a vacation or get sick and are out of the office for 5 days, you wouldn't want 5 "Lunch" tasks the next Monday.

When a task is ignored, it will show as "ignored" in the header on the day of its due date on the schedule view. You can click on it to edit it or allow it to be scheduled past its deadline, or you can simply ignore it. When an ignored task's deadline passes, the ignored task will be deleted.

By default, repeating tasks have auto-ignore turned on, and non-repeating tasks have auto-ignore turned off, meaning they just get scheduled after their deadlines. This setting can be changed for a task after it is created.

If you'd like a task to be scheduled even if it can't be scheduled before its deadline, or you want the occurrences of a repeating task to "stack up" when you miss them, there are 2 ways to accomplish this:

When "auto-ignore" is turned off and a task is scheduled after its deadline, the task will be colored red, and a red triangle will appear in the header. You can click the red triangle in the header to see and manage all your tasks missing their deadlines.

If you'd like a task to be automatically ignored and not scheduled if it couldn't be scheduled before its deadline, there are 2 ways to accomplish this:

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