Nice one Dwight! Haven't tried it yet, but it looks like you've sorted it from what I can see.
BTW, my comment "...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." is still correct (I think) because Steph was suggesting changing the date/time of the CURRENT task before completing it - He doesn't require the task to be completed or need a completed task as a record so it's much simpler in his situation. Also, I did suggest in my reply to Steph "...I suppose you could set the auto next appointment for a really short period so it appeared later the same day". That's basically your solution, although you've given full details of how to set it up. Maybe less of a fudge than I thought - If it works I don't care. Tolqua. On Friday, 13 May 2016 04:43:31 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > 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/48e96f22-d925-4721-867d-f65ff98c94c9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
