Recurring SubTasks
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TechnoTigger
Mar 26, 2012, 9:41:41 AM3/26/12
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Good morning,
I found a post this morning that described my exact issue (however, I
appear to not be clever enough to post to that same discussion). I
have a set of morning activities that I do every single day. However,
I am not yet in the groove enough to ensure I am acutally doing them
every day. I had created a "Morning Routine" item with my activities
as sub-tasks. I set the Morning Routine to recurr daily and mark all
sub-tasks as uncompleted. I certainly didn't understand why it did
not recurr daily unless I'd done all sub-tasks the prior day. I would
like the ability to flag a set of tasks (or parent with sub-tasks) to
effectively skip if uncompleted and set to today's date on recurrance.
Thanks,
Elizabeth
On Oct 15 2011, 12:47 pm, Lisa Stroyan <lstro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I like this idea of expiring tasks that get marked complete
> automatically. I think there probably shouldn't be a new concept, "expired"
> task, as that would be a lot of work/change, but just an option "auto
> complete this task".
>
> The same system for the alarms could potentially be used to trigger the
> expiration, and that would have an additional effect that if such a task had
> an alarm, it should go away when the task expires.
>
> One issue, though, is that I don't think the option can go in the advanced
> recurrence options box this way, because it would seem to apply to
> individual subtasks whose recurrence is inherited. It almost would need to
> be another field, "expiration date", separate from due-date, and if an
> expiration date were set, the task would be marked complete at that time,
> and all other recurrence options would take over from there.
>
> If we can narrow it down a bit further you could add it to uservoice and
> start collecting votes :)
>
> Lisa
I found a post this morning that described my exact issue (however, I
appear to not be clever enough to post to that same discussion). I
have a set of morning activities that I do every single day. However,
I am not yet in the groove enough to ensure I am acutally doing them
every day. I had created a "Morning Routine" item with my activities
as sub-tasks. I set the Morning Routine to recurr daily and mark all
sub-tasks as uncompleted. I certainly didn't understand why it did
not recurr daily unless I'd done all sub-tasks the prior day. I would
like the ability to flag a set of tasks (or parent with sub-tasks) to
effectively skip if uncompleted and set to today's date on recurrance.
Thanks,
Elizabeth
On Oct 15 2011, 12:47 pm, Lisa Stroyan <lstro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I like this idea of expiring tasks that get marked complete
> automatically. I think there probably shouldn't be a new concept, "expired"
> task, as that would be a lot of work/change, but just an option "auto
> complete this task".
>
> The same system for the alarms could potentially be used to trigger the
> expiration, and that would have an additional effect that if such a task had
> an alarm, it should go away when the task expires.
>
> One issue, though, is that I don't think the option can go in the advanced
> recurrence options box this way, because it would seem to apply to
> individual subtasks whose recurrence is inherited. It almost would need to
> be another field, "expiration date", separate from due-date, and if an
> expiration date were set, the task would be marked complete at that time,
> and all other recurrence options would take over from there.
>
> If we can narrow it down a bit further you could add it to uservoice and
> start collecting votes :)
>
> Lisa
Lisa Stroyan
Mar 26, 2012, 2:57:05 PM3/26/12
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I don't think there is any way to have tasks automatically recur based on time.
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What I do is I have a grouping, Morning Routine, but each task has it's own recurrence. Most of mine are set to "recur 1 day after this task is completed." This way, I don't have to catch them up if it has been a few days.
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Dwight
Mar 26, 2012, 10:23:15 PM3/26/12
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Hi, Elizabeth.
I handle the morning routine a little differently. I have a task that reocurrs daily starting at 6am due at 11:30 am. It has a dozen or so subtasks, each of which inherit their start and due dates from the parent.
The parent task has the following advanced recurrence properties:
Reset all subtasks to uncompleted
Automatically recur when all subtasks are completed
Each morning I do as many as I can get to. If I get them all, the parent cycles to tomorrow with all of the subtasks active.
Sometimes in the morning I see yesterday's date on the morning routine with one or two subtasks uncomplete. I click the completion box for the parent, the remaining tasks are discarded and the parent cycles to today with all of the subtasks active.
This works for tasks where there's no "catching up" - If I forgot to check my email yesterday that doesn't mean that I need to check it twice today.
Maybe this way of doing it would be helpful to you. Missed tasks don't expire by themselves but it only takes one click to clear them away.
I handle the morning routine a little differently. I have a task that reocurrs daily starting at 6am due at 11:30 am. It has a dozen or so subtasks, each of which inherit their start and due dates from the parent.
The parent task has the following advanced recurrence properties:
Reset all subtasks to uncompleted
Automatically recur when all subtasks are completed
Each morning I do as many as I can get to. If I get them all, the parent cycles to tomorrow with all of the subtasks active.
Sometimes in the morning I see yesterday's date on the morning routine with one or two subtasks uncomplete. I click the completion box for the parent, the remaining tasks are discarded and the parent cycles to today with all of the subtasks active.
This works for tasks where there's no "catching up" - If I forgot to check my email yesterday that doesn't mean that I need to check it twice today.
Maybe this way of doing it would be helpful to you. Missed tasks don't expire by themselves but it only takes one click to clear them away.
Lisa Stroyan
Mar 27, 2012, 8:28:16 AM3/27/12
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Dwight, for your morning routines, do you work from the Outline, or from another view? This scheme sounds appealing, but I don't work from my Outline, so I would have to switch to it to complete the parent.
But it does have the advantage of being able to complete the whole routine at once which is nice. maybe that would get me to do them as a group, whereas now I pick them off individually.
Lisa
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Timothee Howland
Mar 27, 2012, 8:03:51 AM3/27/12
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Excellent, Dwight!
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Luc Poitras
Mar 27, 2012, 11:21:04 AM3/27/12
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Lisa said:
"What I do is I have a grouping, Morning Routine, but each task has it's own recurrence. Most of mine are set to "recur 1 day after this task is completed." This way, I don't have to catch them up if it has been a few days."
For me Lisa, I prefer the idea of "catching up" on a series of tasks to get them back to today's date for one of these two reasons:
First, every time I get into the process of ticking the boxes and catch up, I automatically question myself if these recurring tasks have really there reason of being there. If not, I will need to change something in my routine, or delete some of them;
Secondly, if I find these tasks have really there place, the more I 'm not to date on these recurring tasks, the more it creates a tension inside, and pushes me to find a way to stay up to date; In other words, it tells me to be more proactive!
Hope this makes sense here!
Luc
Dwight
Mar 27, 2012, 6:48:24 PM3/27/12
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Hi, Lisa. If I'm working from Android I do the morning routine from
Outline. It's the first subtask of my first folder so it positions
well at the top of the page.
From Windows I use a to-do view that shows all (all, as opposed to
active) tasks with "morning routine" as parent, sorted by completed
date. That way, whenever I complete something it stays in the view but
jumps to the bottom.
Warning: due to incomplete implementation of sync conflict handling, I
often get fouled up by completing most tasks on android, then going to
the next day and using windows to complete the parent (to go to the
next day) and then completing the first few tasks, then cloud sync.
Likely outcomes are that todays completed tasks become uncompleted, or
that the due date which should be today becomes the day before
yesterday.
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> Lisa Stroyan, mailto: lstro...@gmail.com <lstro...@gmail.com>
Outline. It's the first subtask of my first folder so it positions
well at the top of the page.
From Windows I use a to-do view that shows all (all, as opposed to
active) tasks with "morning routine" as parent, sorted by completed
date. That way, whenever I complete something it stays in the view but
jumps to the bottom.
Warning: due to incomplete implementation of sync conflict handling, I
often get fouled up by completing most tasks on android, then going to
the next day and using windows to complete the parent (to go to the
next day) and then completing the first few tasks, then cloud sync.
Likely outcomes are that todays completed tasks become uncompleted, or
that the due date which should be today becomes the day before
yesterday.
> Lisa Stroyan, mailto: lstro...@gmail.com <lstro...@gmail.com>
TechnoTigger
Mar 28, 2012, 6:18:20 PM3/28/12
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I must say, I am highly pleased at how responive this forum has been!
Thank you Dwight, I had my parent configured that way, but didn't
realize
I could click the parent to reset all the children! Very neat.
With the feedback from you and Lisa, I now have a couple different
setups - some with parents I'll click to finish if needed and some
where
they recur one day after completion.
Thank you all!
Elizabeth
Thank you Dwight, I had my parent configured that way, but didn't
realize
I could click the parent to reset all the children! Very neat.
With the feedback from you and Lisa, I now have a couple different
setups - some with parents I'll click to finish if needed and some
where
they recur one day after completion.
Thank you all!
Elizabeth
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