Make the day's list a pull of committed work, not a push of everything unblocked

2026-09-03T02:34:25+00:00

due_date had been carrying two incompatible meanings: "this has a real deadline" (Bills, meds, a signup cutoff) and "this is when I intend to work on it." Chains leaned entirely on the second -- every step was stamped due_date = now the moment it unlocked -- so a five-minute call and a six-month certification both arrived looking overdue, and the only way to quiet them was to hand-reschedule. The list therefore always contained work that could not be finished that day, which made ending a day at zero impossible by construction rather than by effort. Splits the two apart: - due_date keeps only its real meaning: an externally-imposed deadline. - committed_date (new, migration 031) means "I chose this for today." Chain steps no longer get a due date on unlock (CreateChain, advanceChain, and the delete-promotion path), and are excluded from the undated list so they don't simply fall through to it instead. They reach the day only by being committed, via a "+ today" control on the chain card. Bucket-active items get the same control. BuildTimeline pulls in committed tasks, deduped against tasks already present for a different reason (committed and due-today are two reasons for one row, not two rows). Migration 031 also clears the auto-stamped due dates from open chain steps; completed steps keep theirs as historical record. Two supporting changes made while in here: - Extracted the native_tasks SELECT list into nativeTaskColumns. It had been copy-pasted into nine queries that must each agree exactly with scanNativeTasks' field order; adding committed_date meant editing all nine correctly or silently breaking whichever was missed. - Extracted templateFuncMap() and added TestTemplates_AllParse. New() only logs a warning when template parsing fails, so a malformed template shipped silently and surfaced as a broken page at runtime. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AwnALZL6bD4VBtATDVv3B

doot.git/migrations/031_task_commitment.sql, branch master

Make the day's list a pull of committed work, not a push of everything unblocked