Hierarchically recurring chains and widget display

[Radek Pilich]

My primary use case for MLO should be the organization of all sorts of recurring activities.

I would like to use hierarchical structures with folders on the levels above the final bottom level task.

Only the bottom level tasks will be checked out manually, but the folders themselves will have recurrences as well with advanced option set to automatic recurring when any subtask is completed and disabled resetting of subtasks.

All recurrences reset x days after completion.

In example:

RESTORATIVE ACTIVITIES (2)

--- HYGIENE (4)

---   --- [] FACE SHAVE (6)

---   --- [] HEAD SHAVE (12)

---   --- [] FINGER  NAILS (15)

---   --- [] TOE NAILS (35)

--- RELEASE (2)

---   --- [] YOGA (3)

---   --- [] SAUNA (10)

---   --- [] EPSOM BATH (10)

In the example above, you can see that I want to do some sort of restorative activity every other day, do some hygiene activities once in four days, cut my finger nails every 15 days etc.

I'm not into doing things before do date, I prefer to have small amount of bottom level task slightly overdue and pick those I feel like doing at the moment.

This all works nicely. My issues are around filtering and displaying the TODOs in a way I would like to see them - especially in widgets, as it is not possible to display hierarchy in widgets at the moment.

Basically I would like the top down hierarchy of everything due and before today + 1, ordered by due date ascending. 

The closest to my liking so far is to group by folder, but it works well only with one level of folders and tasks directly below them. And even in this case, it's not possible to sort the folders by due date, only alphabetically :|

It's even more problematic with more levels of folders, as it duplicates the folders that have another folder above them.

Does anyone have experience with similar setup? How do you display this in widgets?

[Radek Pilich]

OK, I've found a solution flattening the hiearchy (tinkered custom view settings) and workaround for ordering the grouped folders (double digit / two levels prefixes in folder names to maintain a consistent logical ordering.