How to postpone a recurring task?

[JuddMuir]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone knows how to postpone a recurring task. I
don't mean "skipping recurrence", I want to postpone a monthly
recurring task by a couple of days so that it doesn't appear in
today's to-do list.

Thanks!

[Richard Collings]

I think the only way to this is to open up the Task Recurrence box and make
an adjustment there. This is what I do.

I would certainly vote for a 'Postpone recurring task' mechanism of some
sort which makes a temporary adjustment to the current due date of a tasks
for the current recurrence without affecting date of the next occurrence.

Richard

[Kudos]

I do it with MLO Hotkeys:
http://www.autohotkey.net/~Kudos/MLO_Hotkeys.zip

I have recently added some scripts to increase/decrease the due and
start dates of any task, recurring or not. Just press Ctrl - or Ctrl =
to change the due date or Ctrl [ or, Ctrl ] for the start date.

It's a new feature but it works quite reliably so far.

Note that there is a requirement to have your computer display short
dates in YYYYMMDD format at the moment.

Kudos

On May 5, 7:51 pm, JuddMuir <clie...@barcelona-internet-marketing.com>
wrote:

[Kudos]

Hmm.. although if you only want to postpone the single instance and
not change the overall pattern then it doesn't do that.

It's probably not that hard to do a script to skip the current
occurrence then make a single copy of the task and set the date a day
or two forward.

Kudos

[XO]

Hmm a "snooze" function a la Outlook.

[JuddMuir]

Looks like that's a "no" then! Definitely a desirable feature, quite
often I need to "snooze" a task for a day or 2, without changing the
overall recurrence pattern.

[James Murphy]

2008/5/5 Richard Collings <r...@rcollings.co.uk>:

> I would certainly vote for a 'Postpone recurring task' mechanism of some
> sort which makes a temporary adjustment to the current due date of a tasks
> for the current recurrence without affecting date of the next occurrence.

I think the magic word in this case is "defer" and the action should
be to move the due date/time for the current task by the requested
time period (without affecting the recurrence pattern where its by
date). This is something I would like too.

--
Murph

[Jan Thomä]

I was about to ask for the same thing. I currently handle this by marking the task as "hide in todo" and adding a reminder for a few days later, when I manually remove the "hide in todo" flag again. It is workable, but some automatic defer functionality that keeps the recurrence pattern intact would be nice indeed.

[Stephen Jones]

I postpone them by adding a subtask called DELETE THIS TASK. I can then set the date I want it to appear. Then when it appears I simply delete and then my recurring task is on the list.

Cheers

[Grant]

I think is is a much needed feature - MLO need these kind of things that make it work in the real world for people busy with things other than configuring and scripting MLO ;-)

[Jeff Smith]

Jeff liked this post.

In fact he loves it

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 01:40 Grant <gran...@gmail.com wrote:

I think is is a much needed feature - MLO need these kind of things that make it work in the real world for people busy with things other than configuring and scripting MLO ;-)

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