Thanks Eberhard for taking the time to respond. I wasn't sure how to use 
the advanced features so I appreciate you letting me know. 

Joel

On Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:10:13 AM UTC-4, Lisa S wrote:
>
> It's certainly viable to have a particular view, probably a subset of an 
> Active view, that shows you only the tasks with Due dates.  You might want 
> also to look at other ways that would narrow your task list, so that you 
> can use due date only for hard, fixed dates by which a task must be 
> completed.
>
> I believe it is by design that tasks without due dates show up in the 
> various Active views. (To see what makes a task Active, look in the help on 
> the desktop version).  If every task has to have a due date to be 
> actionable, then due dates tend to become artificial and lose their 
> meaning. At the least, they have to be changed a lot as priorities ebb and 
> flow. 
>
> I use Start dates if a task really can only be done in the future. That 
> way it doesn't show up on any of the Active lists. Context, Goal, and 
> Starred are other ways to "slice" the tasklist. On the desktop, there are 
> flags, but they don't transfer to mobile apps (at least not Android).
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Eberhard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Go to "Advanced Filtering" and set "DueDateTime" to "exists". That should 
>> do the trick.
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Holmes245 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to  hide tasks that don't have a due date in the To Do 
>>> list? I've have mine sorted by Due date but I also have tasks that aren't 
>>> dated in there as well. I'm not even sure why undated tasks make it into 
>>> the to do list but maybe I'm missing something. Is there a way to do that? 
>>> Anyone? Anyone? :)
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