Giving names with times without setting due date?
msmith25 says:
Sometimes when I have a Smart List that includes a due date specification, I'd like to add something to the list that refers to a time without it falling off the Smart List. For instance, I have a query that searches for:
list:shared tag:goals tag:health priority:2 due:"30 days from today"
This lets me draft a list of goals for my health that I want to achieve in 30 days. But I just now tried to put in a goal:
Be doing 10 minutes of "Tree in Harvest"
(which refers to a kind of chi kung exercise I have to build up to). Unfortunately, this made it not appear in the list as with the other goals. Instead, it set the task "Be doing of "Tree in Harvest"" due 10 minutes from now, so it disappeared from the search I was using to create the list in the first place.
This isn't the first time this challenge has appeared. Sometimes I want to set a task that has a time name in it but that I don't want a due date for. For instance, if I want to create a task "Find a suitable drawing of Wednesday Addams" appropriately tagged for a GTD system but without a due date, I'm stuck having to let RTM rename the task "Find a suitable drawing of Addams" that's due this coming Wednesday.
Is there a way around this problem that doesn't involve deactivating the otherwise really useful due-date-setting option or requiring me to chase the task down and adjust its properties?
list:shared tag:goals tag:health priority:2 due:"30 days from today"
This lets me draft a list of goals for my health that I want to achieve in 30 days. But I just now tried to put in a goal:
Be doing 10 minutes of "Tree in Harvest"
(which refers to a kind of chi kung exercise I have to build up to). Unfortunately, this made it not appear in the list as with the other goals. Instead, it set the task "Be doing of "Tree in Harvest"" due 10 minutes from now, so it disappeared from the search I was using to create the list in the first place.
This isn't the first time this challenge has appeared. Sometimes I want to set a task that has a time name in it but that I don't want a due date for. For instance, if I want to create a task "Find a suitable drawing of Wednesday Addams" appropriately tagged for a GTD system but without a due date, I'm stuck having to let RTM rename the task "Find a suitable drawing of Addams" that's due this coming Wednesday.
Is there a way around this problem that doesn't involve deactivating the otherwise really useful due-date-setting option or requiring me to chase the task down and adjust its properties?
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In this case you need to use Be doing "10 minutes" of "Tree in Harvest"
Later, you can remove unwanted "".
In this case you need to use Be doing "10 minutes" of "Tree in Harvest"
Later, you can remove unwanted "".
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
msmith25,
In addition to what rajjan said, the following example will also work:
~Be doing 10 minutes of "Tree in Harvest"
Keep in mind in that case, no other properties would be picked up (e.g. lists, tags, etc.)
Hope this helps!
In addition to what rajjan said, the following example will also work:
~Be doing 10 minutes of "Tree in Harvest"
Keep in mind in that case, no other properties would be picked up (e.g. lists, tags, etc.)
Hope this helps!
msmith25 says:
Ah, excellent! Thank you both!