Hi Dwight, So I recently came back to MLO after leaving it. When I started researching this issue I realize that I have already asked the question i was looking for an answer to! Well this work-around does work, except after trying Omnifocus I've gotten used to "start dates" as "defer dates". But I've learned that in MLO, you can't amend the start date of a recurring task so as to "defer" or hide it for another day or to until I'm ready to deal with it. But otherwise this trick works. So I very belatedly thank you for answering this issue for me. Cheers, Troy
On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 1:43:28 PM UTC-5, Dwight wrote: > > Hi, Troy. I support this suggestion and I hope it happens. But I know > that it would be a big change, and in the meanwhile I am all about the > workaround, so let's discuss how you could schedule your expense reports. > > First, you want the task to go away once it's completed and not appear > in your to-do list until the first of the next week. That's easy enough, > you juat have to set it to reoccur monthly with a start date of the > first of the month. The only problem is that you can't code "start date > = the first of every month" because all of the recurrence formulas are > for coding the due date. The start date is then calculated by due date > subtract lead time. So you can code the due date for the 28th of every > month with a lead time of 27 days. Whenever you mark this complete > (either because you genuinely completed it or because you decided to > skip this month) the task will be reset to start the first of the > following month and will remain inactive until the next month turns. > > But you are also asking for no due date. I'm guessing that means that > you do not want to have to deal with it if this task becomes overdue, > due or almost-due. In other words, if you skip making an expense this > month. you do not want the expense report to be showing up on your "due > in the next seven days" list on the 23rd. At this point you cannot do > away with the due date without wiping out your recurrence. So, my > suggestion is this: You still need a due date but you can put it pretty > far into the future. For example, set up the task with a start date of 1 > Nov 2016 and a due date of 28 Nov 2116. Lead time should be 100y 28d > (100 years and 28 days), then set the Lock Lead Time tickbox. Set > recurrence so the task reoccurs the 28th of every month. Now, when you > mark the task complete, the start date will reset to the first of next > month amd the due date will be 100 years in the future so it will never > show up in and due date reporting you might do. > > Please let me know if this helps. > > > -Dwight > > On 11/15/2016 4:23 PM, Troy Lundblad wrote: > > +1 for me. > > Another example would be to file my previous month expense report. > > Don't want it to show up until the first, but it doesn't really have a > > due date. I just want to be reminded and for it to reset once I complete > > it and I don't want it clogging up my screen until the first of month. > > > -- 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/45bfc882-3fa9-42ba-9eda-a63e28b11107%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
