Hello
I want to change the colour used by Start Date so that there are 3
different possibilities:
a) Date is in the future [i.e. "No need to start this task yet" ]
b) Date is *today *[i.e. "You should have started this task today"" ]
c) Date is in the past [i.e. "You should have started this task already
before today"]
Is this possible?
To get clear, I want to see which tasks because due to start *today*. (I
find this particularly useful e.g. on my Morning Routine collection of
tasks the repeat every day, when been away for a day or two and I have
therefore gotten behind and I now want remove all of them apart from
today's tasks, which I can then tick off in an orderly manner).
I shouldn't need to ask this question, but I found the documentation to be
inadequate/ couldn't find the correct place (after 10 min of searching!)
BACKGROUND
I use Start Date a lot. Currently, I am not using Due Date very often,
because most of my tasks do not have *genuine *(exterior to me) due dates.
>From what I can see Due Date colours work exactly how I would like my Start
date colours to work, but Due Date does not take things off my Active task
("to-do") list.
DETAILS
For clarity here is where you can set up your Date Colours:
Tools > Options > Themes & Formatting > Edit (my theme) > Dates Color
The options here are:
- "Future Dates"
- "Near Due Dates" (**)
- "Overdue Dates"
(** But exactly what does "Near Due Date" mean - and can I change it?)
>From what I can see, the colour of the Start Date is affected by the date
in the Due Date.
e.g. If a task's Due Date has happened, then both the Start Date and the
Due Date go to "Overdue Date" colour. ==> Fair enough.
Interestingly if there is no Due Date set, then Start Date can not go into
"Overdue Date" colour. ==> Also fair enough
Likewise if there is no Start Date set, then the Due Date will only go into
"Near Due Date" colours if the date is Today.
==> So this means that on their own, Due Date colours are behaving exactly
as I would like Start Date to work.
OK, so you might think that I should simply use Due Date as my Start Date.
HOWEVER I am using Start Date to *disappear *off my Active tasks list (i.e.
my To-Do list) by putting them into the future. I find this extremely
useful. e.g. I might go "Alt/S" and then "3D", and that will take the
current task off my Active tasks list and I will not see it until 3 days
time.
However my problem is that changing Due Dates does not remove things from
my Active task list.
J
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