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No respawn on overdue recurring.

tvjames says:
If I have a task recurring every day, and I don't check it off on Monday or Tuesday, I don't want to see three on Wednesday, I just want to see the one item, overdue.

I use it for household tasks I'm supposed to do daily, like run/fold laundry. If I skip a day, it's not something I'm going to do twice as much of the next day.

Or, I'm supposed to mow the lawn each weekend. If I neglect to do it one weekend, I can't really do it twice the following weekend.

(Yes, I really do micromanage my life like this. I keep it in a to do list so I don't have to think about it until I'm ready to focus on chores. I'm now learning this is a GTD thing, so I don't feel so bad about my OCD list obsession.)
Posted at 6:36am on June 12, 2007
ranbarton Power Poster says:
TVJames, have you tried repeat after as opposed to repeat every?

See here: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/basics/repeatformat.rtm
Posted 17 years ago
tvjames says:
Thank you. This must explain why only one or two of mine are actually respawning. I'll have to look more closely and I bet you're right, I'll find that some it assumed after and some it assumed every. Sorry. Feel free to nuke this topic. (Because I don't want it to distract from the very important "start/show date" plea.)
Posted 17 years ago
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