Hi, Joe. You are asking to have a recurring task where you can "get ahead" by completing future recurrences of the task. In order to have the future recurrences appear in your active tasks list, you are looking to have the tasks with no start date, or at least to have each new recurrence have due dates stepping out into the future but the start date stays on today and the lead time gets longer.
I don't think you can do what you are asking but I think there are other ways to handle it. You cannot create a recurring task without a start date. Also, I cannot think of a way to make the lead time get longer on each recurrence of a given task. However, what I think really matters to you is to make the next recurrence of this task appear in your to-do list even if it's well into the future. You are using "active tasks" to filter your to-do list. I cannot suggest a way to make future recurrences look active but I can think of lots of ways to make a few selected future tasks appear on your to-do list. Here's one suggestion: create a context called +GettingAhead and add it to every task that you want to manage this way (in addition to any other contexts that are already on these tasks. Set up normal start/due/lead times: in your example I would say start=April17, Due=April 23, recurrence=weekly on Tuesday. I would then create a custom view called "Joe's Tasks" including all (as opposed to active) tasks with an advanced filter roughly along the lines of ((activeTask AND (startdatetime before now OR startdatetime does not exist)) OR (not Complete AND context includes +GettingAhead)) The Joe's Tasks report will show all tasks that are active (including that they are not waiting for a future start date, which needs to be coded in explicitly) and also all tasks with the context +GettingAhead that aren't complete. In Task Recurrence Advanced Options be certain to select the option to allow completed copies of recurring tasks to be created. -Dwight On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:31:57 AM UTC-4, Joe wrote: > > I'm trying to achieve the following... > > - I have a weekly article to write for a website. I want to be able to > mark it as complete when I have finished it so I have a record of when it > was completed. > - I want its task to then automatically regenerate one week after the > completion date but not have a start date so I can now see (in my task > list) when the next article after that is due. > - The idea behind this is that if I complete, say a few extra articles > ahead of time, I keep pushing back the due date for the next article to be > written but I still want a lead time starting from now so that I can see > my > pushed-back future deadline on my active list. > > > An example of what I mean in case the above is not clear... > > - Today is April 16. I write the article. I mark the task as complete > - My next article needs to be written in one week - by April 23. > - Let's say I do that article tomorrow instead of next week - I now > want the next recurring task "Write article for website" to show up with a > due date of April 30 (1 week further) but still be visible now in my task > list i.e. have no start date, or have a start date of Today. > - Let's say I write the April 30 article tomorrow also - I then want > the recurring task "Write article for website" to still show up in my > current task list with a due date of May 7 (1 week further on) because > that's when the next article after that is due. > > In effect, I'm getting ahead with future recurring tasks but still always > having current visibility of how far I can let things slide before the > deadline catches up with me. > > Any ideas on how to do this in MLO? > > Thanks > -- 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.
