Does MyLO have an "Optionally Due" option?

[Ken Heronheart]

Many todo programs have an "optionally due" option which will automatically roll over missed tasks to there next due date.  For instance, if I miss my "Morning Exercise" task it will just roll it over to the next morning.  Does MyLO have anything similar?

[Stéph]

Hello Ken.

In MLO, if you miss a due date the task becomes overdue. It's then a manual task to reassign a new date.

The only other feature is recurring tasks, so once you check off a task it can regenerate straight away with the next date in the sequence, or it can be set to regenerate after a time delay.

I'd love to see some scripting or more options, so that we have more control over how new tasks are generated and what dates, categories and flags they inherit, but I don't know of any plans to do that, yet.

Stéphane

[Dwight]

Hi, Ken. My daily routine works sort of like what you describe. None of the tasks are repeating tasks; they are one-time tasks in a repeating folder. Some of the tasks have a time-of-day context like @afternoon. The @afternoon context is open noon to 6pm every day, closed all other times.

Every morning when I first access MLO, I mark yesterday's occurrence of the daily routine completed, and MLO regenerates the tasks, but the afternoon tasks remain inactive because the context is closed. At noon all of the afternoon tasks activate. Some get completed and fall off of the list of active tasks. Other tasks remain uncompleted and fall of of the active list at 6pm when the afternoon context closes.

The next day the cycle repeats and at noon all of the afternoon tasks activate, irrespective of how they ended the day before. Tasks that can be done any time of day do not need a time-of-day context. Others might be @morning, @evening or even @weekday or @weekend.

-Dwight

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[boatshed36]

Hi again Dwight 

Sorry, I was sloppy in my request earlier this morning. What i should have said was "if you are *not* using the control template, or if you have customised it, would please describe your setup. 

Warm regards/gary

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[Dwight]

Here's a painful lesson I learned after a couple of years of getting myself organized: if you are spending more than a small percentage of your time managing your tasks (or worse, managing your task management system) as opposed to completing tasks, then your system isn't working.

I feel like giving a proper answer to your query would require fully describing my task management process which, over the years, has gotten quite complex. That would take more time than I'm willing to spend on task management, sorry. 

I'll just describe one thing, how I have ended up using the star. It is pretty much the inverse of someday/never. Many of my tasks are unavailable at any particular time because of dependencies, future dates, closed contexts, proximity requirements and other constraints. Those that are available generally have some sense of priority (coded as importance) that determines what goes first. Looking at the class of all unconstrained tasks, there are some I would be happy to work on right now provided only that everything with a higher priority had been completed. Those get a star. The unstarred tasks will appear on focused lists like waiting tasks, annual routines, catch up on phone calls but will not appear on everyday what-should-I-do-next lists.

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