Dwight, Neal & Lisa I'm working with recurring tasks intensively. Your idea and setup description works great for me. Till now The feature for automatic recurrence when any subtask is completed didn't make sense for me,bbut with your idea its a further time I love MLO a little bit more.
Regards Bedrudin On 29 Jun., 20:22, Dwight <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Neal & Lisa. With your help I've got this figured out. Assume I have > seven maintenance tasks, and I need to perform one each week, so each one > gets done once every seven weeks: > > This solution > - Never shows more than one of the tasks in "active tasks" > - If I complete a task on time, none of these tasks will be active until > next week when the next one will activate > - If I miss getting a task done it will show as overdue till I do it, then > the next one will activate. > - If I get two weeks behind schedule and then finish a task, last week's > task will activate already overdue > - If I get behind and don't want to make the effort to catch up, I click > completion on the parent project enough times to bring it to today (or on > Windows I can right-click the parent project and select "skip occurences", > then select "skip all occurences up to today" and I end up with the task > that's next to do, but its due this week. > - If I add another task,it just slips in wherever I pit it, and now each > task reoccurs in eight weeks instead of seven > - If I need to reorder the tasks I can just do so by drag & drop and all of > the scheduling and due dates fall into place > Best of all, all of this works on a phone version of MLO so I don't have to > keep running back to Windows. > > Here's the setup > 1. create a task, named "Maintenance" or whatever. > 2. Make it a project, with subtasks executed in order. > 3. Set start date = this Monday and due date = this Friday, recurring every > week. > 4. advanced recurrence options: subtasks recurr when all completed, > automatic recurring when any subtask completed > 5. then add the subtasks, in the correct order > That's it. > > My database contains a lot of tasks with recurrence every seven weeks (or > every 42 days) or every 27 weeks. I could not get rid of almost all of them > and use this task cycle instead. I would then be able to do almost all of my > scheduling right on the phone (android) - the only remaining issue needing > scheduling on Windows would be quarterly scheduling, and I can probably > overcome that by creating a template for a task that reocurrs every 91 days. > -Dwight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
