Repeating Tasks Immediately
toddgrotenhuis says:
Anybody know of a way to cause a task to repeat without due date?
The behavior I am seeking is that when I complete a task, (say, "Read a Chapter of That Big Book I Have to Read"), it re-adds the same task, immediately. It should not be due the next day (or, ideally, due at all), but just be re-added to the list.
Alternatively, it looks like I could duplicate the task before marking it complete, but there does not appear to be a fast (keyboard shortcut) way of doing that.
Anybody else encounter this use case and have a workaround?
The behavior I am seeking is that when I complete a task, (say, "Read a Chapter of That Big Book I Have to Read"), it re-adds the same task, immediately. It should not be due the next day (or, ideally, due at all), but just be re-added to the list.
Alternatively, it looks like I could duplicate the task before marking it complete, but there does not appear to be a fast (keyboard shortcut) way of doing that.
Anybody else encounter this use case and have a workaround?
Hi toddgrotenhuis,
I had responded to you via email on this, but thought this might be useful for other users as well. It's possible to use advanced search operators to view only the non-repeating tasks from a list. For example, try searching for:
list:Personal AND isRepeating:false
While your repeating tasks will still have due dates, this may help hide the tasks from view in situations where you want to ignore the due dates.
Hope that helps!
I had responded to you via email on this, but thought this might be useful for other users as well. It's possible to use advanced search operators to view only the non-repeating tasks from a list. For example, try searching for:
list:Personal AND isRepeating:false
While your repeating tasks will still have due dates, this may help hide the tasks from view in situations where you want to ignore the due dates.
Hope that helps!
Dear @brendan,
I'd like to second this request for repeating behavior that simply duplicates the task after completion, without adding a particular due date. As @toddgrotenhuis suggested with his book-chapter example, this would seem to be a relatively common behavior for tasks that correspond to doing a small repeatable unit of some larger project. I know I'd appreciate such a feature as I try to stay up to date with Sisyphean projects such as processing my Google Reader starred items.
Has there been any discussion at RTM HQ about such a feature? I can see that it could difficult to figure out the syntax for that behavior, and that for whatever syntax you choose you'd need to decide how it should affect tasks that have a due date (or how to make the syntax incompatible with such tasks). Maybe 'repeat with no due date' would work, and it would clear the date on repeat? Also, would there be a technical limitation to having tasks repeat that way (perhaps with their internal representation in the RTM system)?
A workaround I've tried out recently has been to set the task to 'repeat after' some very long period of time (e.g., 1 year). My smart-lists of salient tasks are typically built around date-filtering plus including tasks with special tags, so those tags (which persist on repeat) pull the task into those lists despite its far-off deadline. So far, that's working, but I'd like to eliminate the far-off due-date if possible. And I too have rejected manual duplication as both cumbersome and too prone to error: if I forget to duplicate before completing then I lose that task unless I retrieve it from the completed-tasks graveyard.
In any case, thanks very much for your attention to these issues!
Best,
Eric
I'd like to second this request for repeating behavior that simply duplicates the task after completion, without adding a particular due date. As @toddgrotenhuis suggested with his book-chapter example, this would seem to be a relatively common behavior for tasks that correspond to doing a small repeatable unit of some larger project. I know I'd appreciate such a feature as I try to stay up to date with Sisyphean projects such as processing my Google Reader starred items.
Has there been any discussion at RTM HQ about such a feature? I can see that it could difficult to figure out the syntax for that behavior, and that for whatever syntax you choose you'd need to decide how it should affect tasks that have a due date (or how to make the syntax incompatible with such tasks). Maybe 'repeat with no due date' would work, and it would clear the date on repeat? Also, would there be a technical limitation to having tasks repeat that way (perhaps with their internal representation in the RTM system)?
A workaround I've tried out recently has been to set the task to 'repeat after' some very long period of time (e.g., 1 year). My smart-lists of salient tasks are typically built around date-filtering plus including tasks with special tags, so those tags (which persist on repeat) pull the task into those lists despite its far-off deadline. So far, that's working, but I'd like to eliminate the far-off due-date if possible. And I too have rejected manual duplication as both cumbersome and too prone to error: if I forget to duplicate before completing then I lose that task unless I retrieve it from the completed-tasks graveyard.
In any case, thanks very much for your attention to these issues!
Best,
Eric
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
Hi Eric,
Thanks for your feedback as well. We don't have any announcements at this time but you are free to propose the idea in our Ideas forum.
Thanks for your feedback as well. We don't have any announcements at this time but you are free to propose the idea in our Ideas forum.