How do I create a reminder which doesn't move?

[Michael Emerald]

Hi All.

I was hoping that disabling the "repeat alerts" checkbox would keep the reminder from re-occuring.  Yet, I found that my reminders were "moving around", for lack of a better word.  I'd set a date, and sometime later it would be another date.  Either because it changed if and when I changed the due date, or else it changed when I recurred the task (all of my tasks are recurring).

How do I set a single reminder date which doesn't move?

thanks in advance.
Michael

[Lisa Stroyan]

Yeah, repeating alerts is just for whether you want it to keep bugging you until you pay attention or not.

I think reminders always change with the task. I've had some where I change the dates and the reminder somehow gets changed *past* the due-date, which I think is clearly a bug, though I'm not sure what the best process to figure out a new time is.

But usually, I want the reminder to recur with the task. Can you give us an example of a task that recurs where the reminder shouldn't also recur?

Recurring tasks are designed to do the same task multiple times. For example, take medicine every day. I have a "take medicine" task today, and (though they aren't created yet), a new one for tomorrow, the next day, etc. I'm curious why you would you want a reminder on one day's, but not the others, on a frequent basis.

Lisa

Michael

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[Richard Collings]

I also find the logic behind reminders really puzzling with reminder times being set that seem to bear no relationship to the time of the task itself.

 

I would favour a facility where you can enter a reminder period (5 mins before, 1 hour before, 1 day before) rather than an absolute time.   Or the option to specify either a period or an absolute time with  the other one automatically adjusting.

 

Richard