Hi, Mike, I understand that you are looking for a quick and easy solution, such as a single click button, to postpone an active task for a small period od time. I don't have a solution although I agree with Stéph that AHK (I'm not an AHK user) might provide what you want.
That said, your mention of repeating tasks brings to mind a hack that I'd like to share in case it helps anyone. I have a problem snoozing repeating tasks as it can mess up the recurrence. Suppose I have a task that I do every Tuesday, with start and due dates both pointing to Tuesday. This week, because of a busy Tuesday, I want to do it Wednesday. If I go into the recurrence and change the start to Wednesday, MLO will change the due date to Wednesday and will complain that the recurrence (every Tuesaday) does not match the due date (Wednesday). By the time the revised task is saved it will be set to reoccur every Wednesday. Unless I remember to go set it back to Tuesdays (unlikely) I will miss doing this task next Tuesday. Solution, create a child task under the task in question called "wait for Wednesday" and give it a start and due date of Wednesday, set urgency to max and set the star. (clearly this is not a one-button solution but again AHK could help.) The parent task will be automatically marked inactive due to having an uncompleted subtask. The child task is also inactive due to future start date. So there's no sign of this task in my to do list and I can busy myself with Tuesday's things-to-do. Note that the snoozed task itself has not been changed, it still wants to run on Tuesdays. Come Wednesday, the "wait" task will be marked active because the start date is no longer future. In my system the star is one way to guarantee that the task, if active, will appear on my to-do list, and the max importance guarantees that it will be at or near the top. I recognize this task when I see it and I delete the task because the "wait for Wednesday" is done. Note that if I just marked the wait task as completed it would have come back next week and I would be missing my Tuesday task again. Once the child is deleted the parent is returned to active status and returns to my to-do list, showing (appropriately) as an overdue task. My example involves waiting for a whole day but you could just as easily turn on "time" for start date and wait for today 2PM if you like. -Dwight On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 9:43:16 AM UTC-4 Stéph wrote: > Hello Mike. There's definitely no "preset value" button you can use within > MLO. Some people are using an app called "Auto Hot Key" (or "AHK" if you > want to do a text search in the forum). I haven't tried it, but you might > be able to create a script to do what you want. > > Another thing which might work for some would be to use flags to set > things up for the morning and afternoon. From my point of view, reminder > alarms are quite distracting, so I'd rather only use them for scheduled > appointments. I'd use views to see what's scheduled for the day, starting > with the urgent or important stuff and then working down the list - with a > flag or star, I could distinguish between things I've got planned for the > morning and things I want to put off into the afternoon, then use grouping > so that I see them in two different lists. > On Wednesday, 28 September 2022 at 18:01:01 UTC+1 carshow2 wrote: > >> Hey, all- >> >> I'll apologize in advance for any imprecision in terminology and any >> failures on my part to know about a feature that accomplishes what I'd like >> to see - I've gotten so used to using MLO during the years, it's possible I >> missed an update that covers this functionality. >> >> What I'd like to be able to do in the "Active Actions" view is "snooze" >> certain tasks (this is different than the alarms, which I don't use and I'd >> prefer not to use). To give a sense of how I use MLO, all my active actions >> have a "due date" assigned. I use this as a "check in date" by sorting all >> Active Actions by this "due date" so that every task with (for example) a >> due date of today, 9/28/22, will be at the top of my Active Actions, >> followed by tomorrow's tasks, and so on. I also use start dates and, in >> particular, start times to get my most urgent things to float to the top >> (any Active actions that have a start time will appear first among the >> tasks with today's due date). >> >> What I'd really like to be able to do is quickly and easily snooze a task >> to later in the day. I know I can accomplish this by giving it a "start >> date and time" later in the day. This is an *okay *solution for tasks >> that are one-offs. However, for my repeating tasks (of which there are >> many), it's kind of a hassle to go into the recurrence, add a start time, >> modify the start time to later in the day, and then close it. >> >> A magic button that automatically added a start date and time that was, >> for example, 2 hours in the future, would be amazing. I understand this may >> not be possible, but it would be lovely. >> >> Anyway, if anyone has any better ideas how to accomplish this, I'm all >> ears. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mike >> > -- 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/775fc0f0-0c00-435b-9cfc-a3cb863f5a0an%40googlegroups.com.
