You're welcome. I hope I didn't just derail you from a system that works
for you! ;-)
- Trevor.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 1:44 AM Huw Evans wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed explanation Trevor, that's exactly what I was
> looking for. Definitely not saying a feature shouldn't be included, I
>
Thanks Dan, between yours and Trevor's explanation I now get this. It was just
not an approach I'd considered before.
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Thanks for the detailed explanation Trevor, that's exactly what I was looking
for. Definitely not saying a feature shouldn't be included, I agree the
flexibility of MLO is also what attracts me to it. I wanted to understand your
thinking because I'd never considered using start dates in this
I used to think of the due date more like that, until I read the
"Getting Things Done" book. I realized I've been clogging up my calendar
with too many things that don't have to be done that day, or I was no
longer taking the due date seriously because too many of them just went
past and I often
+1 Trevor's thoughts about overloading Due Dates. If you assign synthetic
due dates to tasks, David Allen predicts accurately what will happen : you
will become numb to the huge # of tasks that are "overdue" and will ignore
(or have a hard time focusing on) the few tasks that genuinely have dates
The GTD strategy only makes dates for things that won't make sense to do if
you don't do them on their due date. So, if you don't take your flight, or
go to your meeting, or pay your gas bill, well, then, it's not due anymore.
You missed it. Those items need due dates. The gas bill still needs to
I think, if I understand this correctly, that your comment refers to
strategy rather than software, is that right?
I ask, because your strategy is currently possible with MLO and most
(every?) other task manager I've ever seen, and allowing my strategy would
not impact that at all. My
Hi,
I'm also only using start dates, here's why:
- for the tasks that have a specified duration, I use Calendar
- most of my tasks have "Due" dates, which are totally created by me. In
this case, the "Overdue" task seems like a false alert.
- Many tasks makes sense only in a specific
I use it for "do when you can" recurring tasks. E.g., "clean the
refrigerator condenser coils". I want to know when these _begin_ to become
due but they don't have a hard due date per se. And they recur x weeks
after they are completed. So I want them to "start" but not be "due" and I
want
Hi - I'd love to know how you're using start date for tasks. It obviously
seems important to you, but I've never needed it. The way I approach tasks is
very schedule focused, so I'm interested in what I need or plan to do today.
So a couple of examples:
1. wash car - this is a repeating
I actually disagree. IMHO every task has a date after which it should
either have been done or it should be abandoned, even if that date is
several years in the future. For example, even something as vague as
"consider enrolling my daughter in a new sports club" will expire once my
daughter
Trevor, I re-upped with Toodledo and tried to do it as well. Whatever my
memory was, it must have been faulty. In any case, it doesn't look
feasible with their current feature set.
Dan g.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:30 PM Trevor Peck wrote:
> I've been using Toodledo since at least 2010, and
I've been using Toodledo since at least 2010, and I've never figured out
how to do that. Just checked today and still no luck.
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:40 PM Dan Gordon wrote:
> It's been a while, but I recall Toodledoo did start-date recurrence just
> fine.
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:22 AM
It's been a while, but I recall Toodledoo did start-date recurrence just
fine.
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:22 AM Trevor Peck wrote:
>
> Start date recurrence seems to me to be the number one thing that would
> make using any digital planner fit GTD better, but I've never found one
> that handles
Start date recurrence seems to me to be the number one thing that would
make using any digital planner fit GTD better, but I've never found one
that handles it well. MLO is the best at it, IMO, but it's still clunky and
annoying.
If you want a task that recurs by start date in MLO, you set the
I found the same thing as Dan.
That, and it's just too messy to have all those future due dates clogging
up my view. Start date should rather be viewed as a defer date which could
keep getting pushed as daily/weekly reviews progress.
Love the ability to nest context, which is an advantage
+1
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I really agree with this. I never add due date unless I seriously made that
commitment!
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 15:30 Troy Lundblad wrote:
> This is a real killer for me and keeping me from leaving omnifocus. Due
> dates should be used sparingly, but this encourages an overuse of due
> dates.
>
This is a real killer for me and keeping me from leaving omnifocus. Due
dates should be used sparingly, but this encourages an overuse of due
dates.
Hopefully this functionality can be added. Really the only thing missing.
That and the calculation of importance should really stop
Alyona: great suggestion! That's what I've been looking for.
On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 4:08:05 AM UTC-4, Alyona (MLO Support)
wrote:
>
> There is no possibility to create a recurring task without due date.
> However, you can put the due date so far in the future that it never come
>
There is no possibility to create a recurring task without due date.
However, you can put the due date so far in the future that it never come
due. Every time you complete a recurring task, its start and due dates are
pushed forward as indicated by the recurrence interval. So, you can simply
Thank you so much guys.
On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 12:37:34 PM UTC+2, Elisau E wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> Is it possible to have a recurring reminder that is assigned to a
> recurring task?
> Currently I can only set a reminder for a specific single-time task.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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Steve is correct. When you set the reminder, future recurring reminders
will be relative to the due date. For example, if you set the reminder to
10 am on the due date, each recurring event will be at 10 am on the due
date.
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 3:50:25 AM UTC-6, Steve Gledhill
Hi Elisau
I may have misunderstood your question but I use reminders on recurring
tasks all the time and I do it the same way as I do for normal tasks: in
the timing & reminder section I tick the reminder box and set the
date/time. I can also set the reminder repeat schedule.
See attached.
I agree with the original poster that using time and regenerate doesn't
work well. I have recurrent tasks that need to start at a particular time
(taking medicine). I have to change recurrence to daily and use skip
occurrences to catch up. OTOH I don't see an easy way to provide another
option
Here's how I would handle this:
I would leave use time turned off, so that the start date and start due
date do not show any time
Then I would set a reminder on the task set for 19:00 on start date.
I believe that whatever time you complete the task it will be regenerated
for x days hence,
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From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com
[mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dwight
Sent: 16 October 2011 1:31 AM
To: MyLifeOrganized
Subject: [MLO] Re: Recurring tasks
@Richard
You mentioned that due date can often be 'you need to start thinking
Richard
I am referring to tasks that have a certain window of opportunity, and
once that window closes, you must wait until the next window of
opportunity. I'll give another example: Let say you always wanted to
see the perseids meteor shower and stuck in a reminder task in MLO.
The task would
Yes, I like this idea of expiring tasks that get marked complete
automatically. I think there probably shouldn't be a new concept, expired
task, as that would be a lot of work/change, but just an option auto
complete this task.
The same system for the alarms could potentially be used to trigger
of a
recurring task, pop along here and vote for it!!
Richard
From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com
[mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lisa Stroyan
Sent: 14 October 2011 1:38 PM
To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: Recurring tasks
You can catch up
The uservoice link you point to is something different, about keyboard
shortcuts.
Lisa
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Richard Collings r...@rcollings.co.ukwrote:
Definitely a major missing feature – the ‘due date’ can often be ‘you need
to start thinking about doing this task again at some
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Sent: 15 October 2011 1:39 PM
To: MyLifeOrganized
Subject: [MLO] Re: Recurring tasks
I agree that for most tasks you would want to continue to see them
even if they are late/overdue. There are some tasks that have
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[mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lisa Stroyan
Sent: 16 October 2011 12:10 AM
To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: Recurring tasks
The uservoice link you point to is something different, about keyboard
@Richard
You mentioned that due date can often be 'you need to start thinking
about doing this task again at some appropriate point in the near/not
so near future' That's exactly what I think Start Date means. If you
use Due Date for this, what does Start Date mean to you?
-Dwight
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On Oct 13, 9:54 pm, Lisa Stroyan lstro...@gmail.com wrote:
On the desktop, you can set a task to recur 1 day after this is completed
so at least that eliminates having to complete them once for every day they
aren't done, and once will catch the task up.
I did see that option on the Windows
You can catch up on a daily task by using Ctrl-o on the desktop. That
will skip ahead to the current day rather than having to click the parent
complete several times if you are days behind, but I don't think that helps
you here because it still requires selecting the parent which is inactive
and
You know I've noticed something else about uservoice. You can't ask for
just a subset of an already stated feature request. There is a request in
uservoice for Outline filtering and another one for Tab views. What I
really want from MLO is a Current Outline tab. Something that shows the
In other user forums I've seen, the developer gets involved periodically by
consolidating requests (as you suggest) and presumably where there is some
coding synergy. The developer would also give some indication as to the
likelihood of a suggestion being adopted and/or a status. An example of
Are you looking at the Outline or the To-do tab? You can use the
Next occurrence part of the Task recurrence dialogue to control
when the task next shows up on the To-do tab. For example, I have a
report which is due by the tenth of every month. This was set up with
a due date on the 10th of
I'm with Neal we need Outline filtering for this type of thing. Looks
like a popular enhancement from User Voice. If you use Mind Mapping
software (I know a lot of MLO people do) then this is something almost
all Mind Mappers can do with a visual outline which is conspicuously
missing from MLO. By
Yeah
Load balancing is a great idea.
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From: pottster kenwarren...@googlemail.com
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 10:52:37
To: MyLifeOrganizedmylifeorganized@googlegroups.com
Subject: [MLO] Re: Recurring Tasks
I think that the lack
That's pretty much what I was thinking. If you could choose a specific
number of occurrences that would show up as future tasks (e.g., 52 or 104)
and provide functionality to (1) automatically add another occurrence as one
is completed or (2) provide a Reminder once the number of future
I too use mlo as a calendar, and like Richard C, use the duplicate
function to generate multiple copies of the same task which I then
manually allocate to their future dates/times.. Would be very convenient to
be able to see the futur recurring tasks just by ticking a box.
Luc
2010/5/2 Richard C
This has been much requested but does present some problems for those
activities which are regenerated on the basis of when they are
completed.
However, the combination of the desire to see future recurring tasks
and the fact that you can't easily adjust the dates of individual
recurring tasks
I think that the lack of visibility of future recurrences together
with some sort of countdown of number of remaining instances (also
previously requested) are two serious omissions from the recurring
task functionality. The former facilitates load balancing of tasks and
the latter would allow for
I think that the lack of visibility of future recurrences together
with some sort of countdown of number of remaining instances (also
previously requested) are two serious omissions from the recurring
task functionality. The former facilitates load balancing of tasks and
the latter would allow for
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