Hi Joe, maybe I have a solution for you.
Having a recurrence without start date is not possible as far as I know. The desire when using a start date is to hide a task in the todo list as inactive as long as the start date is in the future. In your case you want your task "write the article for day X" show up always in your list. It doesn't matter how far the due date is in future. So what about setting a start date far in the past, lets say 1 year (alternativelty you can set the lead time to 1 year)? Then the task will always show up in your active tasks because in real life you would not write articles one year ahead the desired publish date, would you? Does this work for you? Regards Bedrudin Am Dienstag, 16. April 2013 14:31:57 UTC+2 schrieb Joe: > > 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.
