How can I copy and edit multiple tasks on the iPhone?
Due to RTM's lack of re-usable lists, I use a variation of the "+bessler method" from https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/5183/ to handle my shopping list (David Allen is right: checklists are useful!).
This workaround allows setting up the shopping list via the regular website on a PC and checking it in the store on an iPhone.
However, if I (somewhere between filling the list and actually using it in the store) discover that I need to buy any additional existing items and have no PC available (or if I want to do the entire setup on the iPhone), I would like to copy items and preferably edit multiple items at once on the iPhone (I use the App).
Is this already possible? How?
This workaround allows setting up the shopping list via the regular website on a PC and checking it in the store on an iPhone.
However, if I (somewhere between filling the list and actually using it in the store) discover that I need to buy any additional existing items and have no PC available (or if I want to do the entire setup on the iPhone), I would like to copy items and preferably edit multiple items at once on the iPhone (I use the App).
Is this already possible? How?
leah.shalom 
says:
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You can work wtih multiple items on the website but I don't know if you can simultaneously on the iphones.
You made a comment at the beginning about the lack of re-usable lists. If you use smart lists you can keep a base task in the smart list (like grocery list) and copy and paste the items in a note into a date specific task.
You can work wtih multiple items on the website but I don't know if you can simultaneously on the iphones.
You made a comment at the beginning about the lack of re-usable lists. If you use smart lists you can keep a base task in the smart list (like grocery list) and copy and paste the items in a note into a date specific task.
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
leah.shalom is right; the only thing you can do with multiple items is complete or postpone them.
The +bessler method won't work as such on the iPhone, but something other people have described for shopping is to go to their shopping list/tag and to uncomplete the items they need. That could get tedious on the iPhone though; marking a task incomplete is a bit more taps than marking one complete (makes sense, of course).
Like leah.shalom though, I use a note in a Grocery task to manage the items I actually need; that would be easy to copy/paste, and it also allows me to list the items in aisle order.
The +bessler method won't work as such on the iPhone, but something other people have described for shopping is to go to their shopping list/tag and to uncomplete the items they need. That could get tedious on the iPhone though; marking a task incomplete is a bit more taps than marking one complete (makes sense, of course).
Like leah.shalom though, I use a note in a Grocery task to manage the items I actually need; that would be easy to copy/paste, and it also allows me to list the items in aisle order.