What if I miss a repeating task?
I have repeating tasks for a set of exercises I'm supposed to do. I have some days when I just can't manage it, either because I ran out of time or I can't physically do it that day.
What's the best way to deal with a repeating task you didn't do? Right now it's showing up as an Overdue task on my Today view.
What's the best way to deal with a repeating task you didn't do? Right now it's showing up as an Overdue task on my Today view.
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
Hi mmoore100,
You have a few options here, which kind of depend on the task, so Remember The Milk offers both "every day" (etc.) and "after 1 day" (etc.) repeats.
(You can see more about those with some more examples on our help page.)
So what you may want to do depends on your repeat, but here are some ideas:
* You can postpone yesterday's task to today and complete as you can.
* You can complete yesterday's task and have today's task ready to go already.
* If you have "every day" set, you can delete yesterday's task and select "continue repeating" to have today's task already set.
Hope this helps, but keep me posted on what you find!
You have a few options here, which kind of depend on the task, so Remember The Milk offers both "every day" (etc.) and "after 1 day" (etc.) repeats.
(You can see more about those with some more examples on our help page.)
So what you may want to do depends on your repeat, but here are some ideas:
* You can postpone yesterday's task to today and complete as you can.
* You can complete yesterday's task and have today's task ready to go already.
* If you have "every day" set, you can delete yesterday's task and select "continue repeating" to have today's task already set.
Hope this helps, but keep me posted on what you find!
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
Hi mmoore100,
I'm glad that option helps.
You may want to double-check the repeats on your tasks—even deleting by keyboard should show that prompt, but it will only appear for tasks that repeat with an "every" interval.
(In other words, since "after" tasks only generate the next task when completing, deleting would just not create the next one.)
Hope this helps, but let me know if it's not what you're seeing.
I'm glad that option helps.
You may want to double-check the repeats on your tasks—even deleting by keyboard should show that prompt, but it will only appear for tasks that repeat with an "every" interval.
(In other words, since "after" tasks only generate the next task when completing, deleting would just not create the next one.)
Hope this helps, but let me know if it's not what you're seeing.