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When I complete a task that repeats "after 1 day" I miss one day

freddyy says:
I have a task that I want to do every day at 8pm "feed cow".

The "after" feature won't add a new task as long as I do not mark the old one as completed, which is a great feature. So my schedule is not cluttered with tasks every day.

When I did complete this task since saturday evening, and I complete the task and I mark it completed on tuesday afternoon maybe, something that I would not expect, happens.

Rtm creates the next task on wendesday evening. But I would have expected that the next reachable point in time, which would be tuesday evening 8pm, would be created as a task.

I think this is an issue. I would expect that after I mark an issue that repeats "after 1 day" is created not on the next day but on the next reachable point in time as soon as I complete it.

Maybe there are different methods how people work and how they use rtm. But for my expectation this is something strange, and what happens is that I simply miss tasks.

Because when I hit the "c" key - completed - the task disappears from my view and my mind and I trust I won't miss it.
Posted at 2:32pm on October 20, 2009
raymond.bergmark Power Poster says:
But would you really want a new instance at the next reachable point in time? Suppose you feed the cow at 7.45 pm and mark the task as complete. I bet that you don't want a new task due in 15 minutes, I mean there's a limit as to how hungry a cow is ;-)
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