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Tasks with time to live

risk says:
I have some tasks that are tagged #reminder and repeat *daily or *weekly that I only want them to show for the due date then automatically expire if I don’t manually complete them.

Take vitamins for example. If I don’t complete it for a couple of days, my due tasks list will have multiple Take vitamins tasks. Is there a way to automatically set tasks to expire after due date?
Posted at 2:31pm on March 24, 2011
raymond.bergmark Power Poster says:
One improvment is to have the tasks repeat after 1 day/week. That way the tasks duplicate only after you complete them.

Unfortunately, there's no way to have the task autocomplete, but you could use smart lists to automatically hide overdue tasks, at least with the tag #reminder.
Posted 13 years ago
brendan says:
risk,
As rajjan mentioned (thanks rajjan!), you could create a Smart List with the following search criteria:
tag:reminder AND NOT dueBefore:today

This will display only your reminders that are not overdue.

Hope that helps!
Posted 13 years ago
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