Hi, David. Here's a way to think about the due date requirement on recurring tasks.
MLO actually recognizes the kind of use cases you are describing, and for that reason it's really good at handling tasks that have a start date but no due date. The exception is for recurring tasks. So, in order for the task to have a scheduled recurrence, you normally need some idea of when you will finish the current occurrence, right? So you can just set the current recurrence to finish just before the next one begins. I say "normally" because when you say "recurs x period after completed" you may well have no idea when you will complete it or when the next occurrence will actually begin. In those cases you can use the technique that someone posted and give a due date that's impossibly far into the future. That works for most cases, the exception being Dave the OP, who wants to treat tasks that have a due date assigned more seriously than those that don't. So in his case it's not just that the due date is an annoyingly pointless thing, it actually detracts from his task management. -Dwight Reminder: I'm just a user of MLO and this is just my opinion and may have no resemblance to the actual design philosophies and decisions of MLO developers. From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Rees Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 4:51 PM To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com Subject: [MLO] Re: Recurrence without a due date I don't understand why a due date is required for recurrence either. Many of my use cases are I don't want to start worrying about something until a particular date, that doesn't mean its due on that date. d -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/00d001cea971%2460ab7110%2422025330%24%40GrantSmiths.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
