How to make a list for something you have to repeat a lot?

[Ryan Vaterlaus]

I wanted to do something like do 1000 pushups over a month, but I can't seem to find a way of making that task in this program that I can track my progress with, other than making 1000 subtasks under the pushup task.

[M. Leigh Bender]

Depending on how many your do at a time or day, make a daily repeating task of “Do 34 pushups a day” and make it recurring daily

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 1:23 PM Ryan Vaterlaus <rya...@gmail.com> wrote:

I wanted to do something like do 1000 pushups over a month, but I can't seem to find a way of making that task in this program that I can track my progress with, other than making 1000 subtasks under the pushup task.

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Respectfully,

Leigh

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Good question,  first I’ll do some grandstanding (is that the right word?) and show how your excellent question is an argument for why delays should default to assuming the previous sub-task.

 

BOTTOM LINE: The acceptable solution I’d use isn’t presently implemented in MLO (see below). For this pushup project, I’d use a different app.

 

DESIRED SOLUTION: I create a project with 1 subtask, with a delay of 1 day, then copy paste it 29 times. Presently this wouldn’t work because it would ignore the delay unless I set 29 dependencies…which “sure as hell” ain’t happening.

 

PRESENT SOLUTION: Since I sense what you’re after is a bar chart showing how far along you are in your progress, personally I wouldn’t use MLO for this because I do indeed want 29 subtasks.  As Leigh said, I’d create a daily recurring task with an end date of “end after 30 times”.  Admittedly, though, this lacks two things: it doesn’t show progress, and more importantly, doesn’t tell me when I’m done; rather, it just ends.

 

 

 

Michael Emerald, CFA

Sturbridge, MA

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[Dwight Arthur]

I experimented with a different approach which doesn't work. My idea was to use a daily repeating task which is configured to create and leave behind a completed task after each repetition. The idea would be to go into the task each day before marking it complete and enter how many pushups were done today, and ten find a way to view all of the completed pushup tasks of the preceding month and view the sum of the effort. Unfortunately although each completion in my test gts an effort value of 2, 10, or 100 the views showed only values like "little" or "normal" so it didnt work

-Dwight

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