Tasks out of sight until the due date???
islareina says:
Either I'm doing something wrong or this application is no where close to meeting complicated demands. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have signed up for this feature exclusively because it syncs with my Google calendar. I have two issues:
#1. For example, I must take an online certification exam by November 30. I set the due date as Nov. 30 but now this task does not appear until Nov. 30! The idea is for it to appear today, and if it isn't completed, it automatically moves to the next day. It will automatically move every day until Nov 30 when it tells me its overdue, or until I complete it. I don't want to set it to "every day" because it is not something I have to do every day. I just want it to appear until I have completed the exam.
#2.Sometimes I have several sub-tasks within a task. For example, for "Grade the oral exams" I want to set subtasks to "grade 11am class"; "grade 3pm class", etc. Yes, I put these in the notes, but notes are not visible in Google Cal? I wanted to have *everything* in one place instead of opening windows and traveling the net to find everything.
Any help any of you gurus could offer would be greatly appreciated.
#1. For example, I must take an online certification exam by November 30. I set the due date as Nov. 30 but now this task does not appear until Nov. 30! The idea is for it to appear today, and if it isn't completed, it automatically moves to the next day. It will automatically move every day until Nov 30 when it tells me its overdue, or until I complete it. I don't want to set it to "every day" because it is not something I have to do every day. I just want it to appear until I have completed the exam.
#2.Sometimes I have several sub-tasks within a task. For example, for "Grade the oral exams" I want to set subtasks to "grade 11am class"; "grade 3pm class", etc. Yes, I put these in the notes, but notes are not visible in Google Cal? I wanted to have *everything* in one place instead of opening windows and traveling the net to find everything.
Any help any of you gurus could offer would be greatly appreciated.
#1: That's the way RTM works by default, showing dated and high prio things up top and the rest underneath. Your task should be in the list where you put it. The text gets bold on the day it's due and also underlined when it's overdue. No need to repeat the task to get this behaviour.
#2: Why not make several tasks instead: "Grade oral exam 11am class" etc?
#2: Why not make several tasks instead: "Grade oral exam 11am class" etc?
lwallach says:
#2. Notes DO show up in Google Calendar. At least they do for me.
#1, Raijjan, I think islareina is talking here about how Google Calendar shows these things, not how they appear in RTM.
I think the issue here is that you are dealing with two interfaces. You have data in RTM and you are pushing it to a "viewer" of sorts in Google Calendar. Google Calendar just sees the due date and so puts the task in the slot for that date/time. It has no idea that this is a "task" just that it's some iCal object with a date/time attached to it. Google Calendar does not have tasked management built in, it's just a Calendar, so you are trying to view your tasks within a Calendar frameset and so of course there's going to be a disconnect. If you want something smarter, you have to go with something that has both a calendar and a task manager and they were built together with some interoperability. Even then, though, there's no guarantee that the functionality you describe will be available as it is pretty specific.
#1, Raijjan, I think islareina is talking here about how Google Calendar shows these things, not how they appear in RTM.
I think the issue here is that you are dealing with two interfaces. You have data in RTM and you are pushing it to a "viewer" of sorts in Google Calendar. Google Calendar just sees the due date and so puts the task in the slot for that date/time. It has no idea that this is a "task" just that it's some iCal object with a date/time attached to it. Google Calendar does not have tasked management built in, it's just a Calendar, so you are trying to view your tasks within a Calendar frameset and so of course there's going to be a disconnect. If you want something smarter, you have to go with something that has both a calendar and a task manager and they were built together with some interoperability. Even then, though, there's no guarantee that the functionality you describe will be available as it is pretty specific.