Richard, I am not sure how it should work either but one way could be
to allow the user to set recurrence without setting a due date. What
is then recurred is only the start date. For instance, if I set the
recurrence of 'call grandmother' to 'weekly' this means that after
completing the task, a week later a new 'call grandmother' task
appears in todo view and without a due date, just sits there as any
other task that has not been scheduled. And only upon completion will
the cycle of 'weekly' restart. It is as if the cycle is on pause while
the task is not being completed.
As far as I am aware, this is currently not possible. Once you want to
set recurrence then start and due date are automatically added.
Recurrence, in my view, is all about 'start date' ("when do you want
to be reminded about this") but not necessarily about 'due date'. It
is this small change I am thinking of. Of course, your suggestion is
also an option but I think it would be a workaround.
If it is furthermore possible to have the 'computer-generated score'
calculate importance based on how long it is since the task's start
date in comparison with its cycle of recurrence (as I tried to explain
above) then this would become a really advanced and most useful
feature because one could have a host of recuring tasks that do not
nag us with 'due dates' but rather nudge up in the hierarchy based on
their calculated importance. It becomes a 'soft reminder' rather than
a 'hard reminder' and I think this would be more akin to how these
kinds of todos are experienced.
Does that makes sense and what do you think?
On Oct 6, 2:52 am, "Richard Collings" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is an interesting idea which I have a lot of sympathy with but unless I
> am missing something, I am not clear how this would work. Are you
> suggesting an additional date field? Or what?
>
> Would one way of implementing this to simply have an option ''Don't show
> dates in Todo view' (or something similar) which would allow one to still
> use Start/Due Date but they would not appear in the ToDo view so as you run
> your eye down the list, the only things that appear with Due dates are ones
> which are genuine deadlines. If so, I'd vote for this.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan
> > Sent: 05 October 2009 9:03 a
> > To: MyLifeOrganized
> > Subject: [MLO] Feature Request: Add 'routinely' to task scheduling
>
> > I really miss a feature to routinely schedule todos that do
> > not have a due date but nevertheless reoccur with a certain
> > frequency. At the moment, this can only be implemented with a
> > due date and a lead time. Yet, I feel this 'misuses' the
> > important of due dates for todos that are actually 'due' or
> > that one are planning to do on a certain day.
>
> > In contrast, the 'routinely' option (as I have found it in
> > the program "Life Balance" by Llamapgraphics) allows the user
> > to set a task to reoccur at any interval without having to
> > set a due date and then the 'importance' and urgency' sliders
> > can help the computer generate an overall priority of the
> > task. If the algorithm is really smart, it might be able to
> > make that priority dependant on the period of the recurrence;
> > say, if a task is set to recur routinely every 14 days, then
> > as one gets past 50% of the time unto the next occurrence
> > (i.e. one week), the task becomes more urgent and once 14
> > days of task visibility (the full period) have passed without
> > the user completing it, it might get another nudge up the
> > importance scale. But still it is not due. It should be up to
> > the user to decide when it will be completed, or put off completely.
>
> > This was just an example. The bottom line for me is to be
> > able to set a number of routine tasks that I have to remember
> > to do, but that are not immediately important nor urgent but
> > of which I still need to be reminded for planning purposes.
> > Here are a few examples of such tasks that I would like to be
> > able to assign to a 'routinely' schedule without them having
> > a due date (which is much too agressive for my style of scheduling):
> > - Remember to read new inspiring literature
> > - Transfering notes from hardcover notebook to the computer
> > - Calling my grandmother
> > ...and so on.
>
> > In fact, I find that most of my routine tasks are of such a
> > nature that I would rather have them gently remind me (with
> > increasing 'non-
> > gentleness'!) rather than posting as something that must be
> > accomplished on a certain day. I feel the ideal project
> > organizer combines these two features seamlessly: allowing
> > for 'hard'-scheduling of goals and tasks as well as the
> > 'soft' and routine-style tasks that follow the flows of our
> > life schedules.
>
> > I apologize in advance if this feature has already been
> > requested - I couldn't readily find it in the forum - and I
> > likewise apologize if it is simply my clumsiness which has
> > prevented me from implementing this function satisfactorily.
> > Anyway, MLO is a great program, with a rare and very
> > welcoming flexibility (reminds me a bit of Eastgate's 'Tinderbox'...).
>
> > Kindly,
> > Dan
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