I have a similar tree of recurring tasks. The parent doesn't have to be a folder, does it? you can make it a regular task, and set it to recur, and still have all the subtasks. if you need a folder (perhaps you have a view that looks for this folder) then you can have a regular task underneath the folder and then the regular task can have all the children. if you click on recurrence on this parent task, and select advanced options, you will see one called disable automatic reset. this is what you need if you don't want completion of the parent to affect the children. that way you should be able to have a reminder on the parent which you can say "complete" without affecting the children.
what I do, though, is I have these tasks show up in my regular view. I have a start date which determines when I will first see a task. Then, I set the reminder close to the due date. That way I only get the reminder if I failed to complete the task at its regular time. you are right that dismissing the reminder doesn't make the reminder come back, so instead I always use the snooze feature on the reminder. This works for me, again because the reminder is my consequence for not having done the task so I don't want it to be dismissed. Another thing to think about is how to incorporate those tasks into your active actions views. So for example, you could put a context on all of these tasks. Then, whichever view you look at every day, could have an advanced criteria to include these tasks. I hope this helps, and if not, clarify more of what you are trying to do. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Mazey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all =) > > I just got the time to dive deep into the new version 4, which is very > promising to me. > Today I ran into some difficulties regarding recurring tasks. Please > forgive me if the following is not the best terminology, I do try to learn > mlo-nese ;) and I read your mails quite carefully to catch up > knowledge-wise. > > Setup is as follows: > I have a folder named punchlist in which I collect my recurring tasks. > They have diverse recurrences, some re-occur daily, some once a month. I > was in the past working with reminders which only reset the task status > (regenerate the task) when the task is completed, but not when it is > dismissed. This wasnt working well for me so I tried the other approach to > be reminded of the parent folder, "Punchlist" daily by mail. The problem > that arrises is, I cannot complete this task since it is a folder. I cannot > set the due date to any other than today as well. I switched of inherit > parent tasks, because I need to subtasks in the list to have their own > recurrence dates. > > Any thoughts, input on this would be highly appreciated. > > Have a wonderful evening, > Brienne > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > mylifeorganized+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to > mylifeorganized@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> > . > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/mylifeorganized?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- Lisa ------------------------------ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
