Re: [MLO] Recurrences, due dates and folders

[maze3d]

Thanks for your input! The reason why I chose a folder as a parent was initially, that I work a lot with folders and have workspace and view filters where folders are my grouping method. Though it of course does not have to be a folder; I might as well set my "Punch-list" as a task as I found the reminder for the entire list works best for me. Initially I had alerts on quite a few of my punch-list tasks, but was somewhat frustrated with the only option to complete even uncompleted tasks if I wanted to be reminded of them again. Maybe some sort of option to distinguish between the actual task status (complete or dismissed) and an independent alert itself would be worth while. Now I will just try to treat that parent reminder as an alert to review the entire list. It just struck me strange, that I could set recurring alerts to folders so they become tasks - which of course, one cannot complete since there is no option (checkbox) to do so. Also, to add to the confusion, I was able to set both start and due date to today, nevertheless the time frame was set to never expire. Logically thinking the task should not have an end date then, no? I am not trying to find flaws though, so please dont take it as a complaint, rather my thoughts while I tried to get to know the details or recurrence feature. Thanks so much for pointing out the important settings on the advanced recurrence dialog - I had missed it and find the result now really beneficial. I have independent due dates now plus I get the reminder for the entire list. Have a great thursday =) Brienne On 07.02.2013 04:19, Lisa Stroyan wrote: 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 <maz...@googlemail.com> 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. 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