Thanks Lisa! That helps quite a bit. :) On Oct 3, 11:15 am, Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote: > At 05:16 PM 10/2/2009, you wrote: > > >now has a new time of when I checked it off instead of 5:00 am. I > >tried using the lock feature put that does not work as I expected, I > >thought it would cause the regenerated tasks to repeat at the original > >time. Can someone tell me if this is possible? > > Yes. I had this same problem as well. I solved it by not > using "regenerate task one day after I complete this task" but > instead "recur every day (or every weekday)". When I don't get to > the task for several days, I click the "skip recurrence" button and > say, "all recurrences up to today" (or I just complete it 3 times to > get it current). > > Then in advanced, I say, "do not create duplicate copies," so that I > won't have a zillion of them as completed tasks. > > Let me know if that is confusing and I can tell you exact names for > the fields; I'm going by memory right now. > > The other thing you can play with is whether you have the parent > recur, or the children. I have some of both. For example, my > "evening routine" has tasks that I don't want to show up until 9 pm > (close down apps for backing up, for example), but it also has tasks > that I might pick off earlier in the afternoon, like preparing things > for the next day. So for those, I have the children recur, and they > have different start times. (By the way you can select multiple > tasks and apply just the date changes to them all at once). I have > other parent tasks which are more of a "block" - I'm going to do the > subtasks all together. For those, I let the children inherit parent > dates, so that I can have all tasks reset when I click on the > parent's complete checkbox. > > Lisa > > ---------- > Lisa Stroyan, > <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
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