Same situation here. - recurring task "take medicine": starred by default (needs to show up in Active Starred view, i.e. daily tasks, automatically) - recurring task "sweep floor": will be starred manually (from Active Tasks view) when I feel like it, and star must be cleared on completion
In Active Starred view, I can either complete the task or clear the star, but not both (either operation will remove the task from the view). I thought that this might be possible with the new triggers in MLO 6, but it's not, at least for now. [email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 22. Juli 2022 um 10:34:23 UTC+2: > I think the solution for the problem above is a simple new functionality: > > *[FEATURE REQUEST] Advanced recurrence - toggles to remove star / flag > with task completion* > > In the *advanced options for recurrence*, there is a toggle switch for a > *completed > copy*. > > I propose there should be *two additional toggle switches* added next to > it: > - *remove star* - removes star from the task when an occurrence is > completed > - *remove flag* - removes flag from the task when an occurrence is > completed > > All these three toggles should be independent. > > The remove star / flag functionality should remove the star / flag only > form the "live task", meaning when combined with completed copy enabled, > the completed copy will remain starred / flagged and only the next > recurrence will have the star / flag cleared. > This is not important for my use case in any way, it's just that it makes > more sense this way then also resetting the completed copy and it also > makes the new feature backwards compatible with existing custom views etc. > > Please please please MLO team, I think this makes sense, is clearly / > logically needed and might not be that hard to implement I imagine. > > R. > > On Wednesday, 20 July 2022 at 10:15:08 UTC+2 Radek Pilich wrote: > >> Oh, and one important thing... >> >> ...thinking about it now - it's clear to me, that I will have to use >> stars for this, and dedicate some maintenance time to remove the stars from >> recently completed recurring tasks... >> >> ...which is where the second part of the problem with handling reccuring >> tasks comes - reccuring tasks with recently completed reccurance don't show >> up on the recently completed list! >> >> They only show on the recently modified list, where they are mixed >> together with all other modifications to the tasks, so it is not possible >> to simply select the recently completed tasks from that list either. >> >> Anyways, I will test drive this and see how it goes. As I generally >> tackle tasks only once they are past due, it might be possible to filter >> out recurring tasks with future due date and unstar those. >> >> On Monday, 18 July 2022 at 20:01:06 UTC+2 Radek Pilich wrote: >> >>> I don't know how to select a couple of tasks to work on next from a list >>> of recurring tasks. >>> >>> It's easy to use flags for this with non-recurring tasks, as once the >>> task is completed, the assigned flag doesn't matter that much. The same >>> goes for using the starred function for this. >>> >>> However that's not true with recurring tasks, as the currently assigned >>> flag / star will stay with the task even for next recurrance, which is not >>> wanted in this case, as in time of next recurrance I want to do the >>> prioritization from the tasks default state rather than from the "selected >>> todo" state. >>> >>> This bothers me a lot. MLOv4 on Android is pretty much the definitive >>> solution to allow me have my life activities organized and handled. I have >>> migrated all the habits and tasks into it, created contexts, tags, views, >>> inboxes..... dozens and dozens of hours of work. Everything is pretty solid. >>> >>> This one fatal flaw however makes it not easily possible to do daily >>> tactical prioritization and take action on recurring tasks. Which again >>> makes me inescapably overwhelmed by the system and therefore much less >>> effective than I would be if it was simple to put a few tasks into the >>> "actions for next few dozens of hours" bucket by tapping on them in the >>> widgets. >>> >>> Any advice / ideas on how to deal with this? >>> >>> I already use flags for more static / long term prioritization, although >>> there is always possibility for additional flag for the "actions for next >>> few dozens of hours" list, the problem is, that every task should have a >>> flag assigned, so this next action flag would have to work as temporary >>> override of the standard flag. >>> >>> Similarly, I already use stars for "arming" tasks to be worked on, i.e. >>> I might have a habit of riding a bike every 15 days, which will be starred >>> during march - october, but in november - febuary, I will take the star off. >>> >>> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/c2ab9bf6-de4a-43cb-9f57-888f3dc6b6f4n%40googlegroups.com.
