How do I "snooze" a reoccurring task?

[Bill Border]

I have a reoccurring task that creates a task for me on the first of every month to do something. That works fine. 

The question: On the first I see the new task, but I won't be able to do this until Friday. How do I effectively move the start date for this occurrence to Friday? 

Thanks. 

[Lisa Stroyan]

I struggle with this all the time. I don't think there is an obvious answer.

One option is to use "recur x intervals after completion" (e.g.recur one month after this is completed) for any tasks that could work that way, then you can change the start date in recurrence options. Your only choice otherwise might be ctrl-d to duplicate, remove recurrence, change start date. It's a pain especially with a task tree.hopefully someone has something better.

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[Dwight Arthur]

I don't have a good answer either. What I do is drop the importance very low and set a reminder. Since the lists I work from are all sorted by importance, this keeps the task in question off the front page. I have to remember to put the importance back up when the reminder sounds.

Lisa's suggestion of using "reoccurs 1 month after completion" seems the easiest to me but you have to remember to set the date back to the first for the following month.

[Nick Clark]

Couldn't you just change the recurrence to "first Friday of every month" or is it only this one occurrence that you want to change?

If the latter then i'd just mark the job as complete, thereby generating the next month's task, and then uncomplete it. This divorces it from the recurrence and you are free to change the dates however you want.

Nick

[Richard C]

Yes - the ability to postpone/reschedule an instance of a recurring task has been much requested.   

Until that gets implemented, the approach I use is to create a sub-task of the recurring task which inherits the dates of the recurring task and which will appear in the To Do list based on this.   You can then change the date of the sub-task as many times as you wish.   When you complete the sub-task, it will automatically complete the parent recurring task and reset the child task to undone (good) [1] but it will set the date of the sub-task to the new date for the parent task plus x days (where x is the number of days that you delayed completing the sub-task) (not so good).    You then need to remember to click the 'Inherit Parent Dates' on the sub-task to reset its dates back to those of the parent task.

[1]  You will need to fiddle with the Recurrence Advanced settings to get this behaviour. 

Richard

[Stephen Jones]

How I deal with this one is to create a sub task called "Delete this item" and then I set it to the date I want - eg in this case Friday. This will hide the recurring task. Then on Friday the task "Delete this item" pops up, I delete it and then my recurring task shows up.