On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 12:49:00 PM UTC-4, Tolqua wrote: > > [...]Changing the date of the existing appointment is okay as long as you > don't need a record of the completed appointment task, but no use if you do. > Not true. My proposal would be very close to Steph's. I would start on Windows and create a task "get haircut" with the following attributes: Start date and time: the date and time of my next haircut appointment. Due date and time: One minute later. Lead time: 1 minute Lead time locked. "Use time" turned on. Recurrence: from the Hourly section, recur one minute after completion. (The drop down menu does not offer 1 minute; just edit it to say "1m".) In the advanced recurrence options, be sure that the checkbox for "do not create a completed copy" is unchecked
OK, now when you go to your next haircut, use your phone to mark the task completed. You will now have a completed task representing the haircut you just had, and another open task that is probably a few minutes overdue. Make sure that you are using a view that will show both the new (uncompleted) and old (completed) tasks, otherwise these tasks may seem to vanish upon creation. So when you make your next appointment, edit the new task to show the new start date and time. Done. As an aside, I am not comfortable having stuff like this in my task manager. Google Calendar is a very fine calendar, which handles tasks but not very well. MLO is a superb task manager, which could be turned into a calendar by pretending that tasks with dates are appointments. But it's not a very good calendar. I like to keep things that happen at a scheduled time and date in my calendar and things that are managed to get as much stuff (and the right stuff) done as possible belong in my task manager. Maybe someday there will be a program which is the best available task manager and the best available calendar in a single app but I am not going to waste much time looking for that app. Back in the 20th century I had a Palm Pilot which kept my daily appointments and my daily to-do's in a single gadget (with an entire megabyte of memory). It was great but I expect a lot more from both calendars and task managers nowadays. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/2e6801b1-0930-42f4-8da5-35c9492b7b35%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
