Hi, Leszek. You have already discovered my best answer, which is to use lead time. You are correct that this gives you the desired start date but does not also address the due date. This is ok by me, as I use due dates in the GTD sense of the date on which a task becomes meaningless and can no longer be completed in any meaningful way. So I do not have many due dates and the technique you described does the job.
In most cases this also takes case of "days after" situations as follows: US Election date is the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. In other words, it is on the first Tuesday in November except that if the first Tuesday falls on the first of the month (as in 2016) then it is on the 8th. Another way to express this is as the date six days prior to the second Monday of November. So you can create an item due annually on the second Monday of November with a lead time of six days and the start date will always fall on election day. To make up for the future due date you could create a reminder at, say, 4pm of the start date. Hope this helps, -Dwight On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 10:51:41 AM UTC-5, Leszek wrote: > > While I think MLO is incredibly deep in all the functionality it covers, > there is something I need to do that I have not been able to figure out. I > have a repeating monthly event which always happens on the 2nd Wednesday > of every month, it’s not a fixed date. I have a number of repeating tasks > and reminders that I need to set up, some of which happen before that day, > and some after. So for example, say I need to set up a repeating monthly > task which needs to happen on the Monday, 2 days before. I can’t set this > to “2nd Monday of the Month”, because depending on how the calendar falls, > this would not always be correct. So the way I have tried to do it, is to > set the Due Date to the 2nd Weds of the month, and then use a lead time > of 2 days. This is close, but it’s not quite what I need, because really I > want the *Due Date* to be on the Monday, not the lead time date, because > the task actually has to be completed on the Monday. How can I do this? > > > > Similarly, I also need to assign some tasks that have to happen on the > Friday, 2 days after the second Weds of the month. Here I am really stuck, > because there is no way to use a negative lead time. Again, I can’t say “2 > nd Friday of the month”, what I need is “2 days after the 2nd Wed of the > month”, which may not be the same thing. > > > So far, I have not found a way to set this up, is there a way? > > > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/195cacfd-1be4-462d-841c-d34c15a945ea%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
