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I understand that there are times that you have repeating tasks
that do not really have a pre-determined date when they are due,
and that MLO makes you put on a due date, which is annoying. My
position is that if I set up my tasks well, I can just pick some
meaningless due date, which is a small, insignificant annoyance
that does not actually cause me any issues and does not need to be
addressed.
I have checklists like the vacation things mentioned below. The
parent task is a recurring task set to reoccur one day after it is
completed. In the "task recurrence" window, click "advanced
options" and in the next window check "Automatically recur when
all subtasks are complete" The start and due dates are set to
approx the last time I used this checklist (for the one I'm
looking at, all the dates are about two years ago.) The parent
task is set to "complete subtasks in order". The first task under
the parent is a kickoff task, with a name like "kickoff vacation
prep" and is marked "hide branch in to-do". The entire checklist
is considered inactive. The parent is inactive because it has
uncompleted subtasks, all of the individual tasks are inactive
because they are running in order and the first one isn't done
yet. The first one is inactive because it is hidden. So the whole
thing is out there in my database and I can see it when I look at
"all tasks" but it will never show up on any to-do list.
When I want to run this list, I go into the All Tasks view, find
the kickoff task, and mark it completed. This causes the second
item in the list to become active. If I just have a flat list of
tasks, they will show up on the to-do list one at a time, each one
showing up as its predecessor is completed. If I want them to all
show up in the to-do list at once, just make a folder as the
second item in the list and put all the other tasks into the
folder. After I complete the last task, the list regenerates and
the hidden kickoff task is back in control, putting the whole list
back to sleep until its needed.
On 10/17/2022 6:52 PM, Luis Enrique
Cisneros Loeza wrote:
I also wish MLO could do this.
I
think this would be a very good addition - but I think people
commenting are missing the point. Imagine, for example, a
checklist -say "Things to do before leaving for Vacation". I
don't have a due date - but I want to be able to go through
the list, check things off, then leave for my vacation. When
I get back, it would be nice if I had a ready to go checklist
for leaving on vacation automatically regenerated, without due
dates.
On Sunday, March 25, 2018
at 8:10:54 PM UTC-4 TL wrote:
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.
>
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