Automatically Advance Date of Incomplete Task

[Adam Shulman]

Is there a way to set a task so that if you do not complete it by the due date, it automatically moves to the next day until you complete it?

The scenario is that I have some tasks I want to complete today, but if I don't get them done, I want them to become the tasks for tomorrow, and the day after, etc. and so on.

My weekly/monthly review process would catch it, but not until I do the review.

Thanks!

[imajeff]

I think instead of using the due date just to filter what shows up today, there should be better ways using advanced filtering. Your idea would not work for most because a due date is only important if it is actually the deadline.

[Michael Emerald, CFA]

I’ll take a stab at it. I won’t pretend I know how your workflow is, so I’ll share how I set up my tasks for moving from date to date.

1. I don’t like seeing overdue ANYTHING. If I I want to do 10 pushups a day, but miss days, I’ll change the recurrence to 10 pushups every TWO days.
2. If I want to fill the bird-feeder (haha I don’t have a bird-feeder!) today, but it slips to tomorrow, then my due date wasn’t today. My due date was actually tomorrow, or next week. I.e. my due dates aren’t wishes; rather, they are “real” dates. I put real in quotes because most due-dates aren’t even due dates. Taxes on 4/15^th is a true due date. Fill the bird-feeder tomorrow isn’t really a due date. Heck, the birds can eat pine cones if I’m late 😊.
3. For overdue tasks that are overdue only because I ended my day, I put those in a little bucket (typically a text tag, star, or folder) to indicate that they aren’t really overdue. Example: If I want to check email every 3 hours I can do that. But not at 3 in the morning! So when I wake up and find my 3-hour recurring tasks is overdue, I put that in it’s own little bucket to indicate it wasn’t my fault it’s shown overdue (Remember my default is #1 above for overdue tasks)
4. I also use from time to time text tags to indicate HANDLING of texts. Like “1 Mission Critical”, “2 Goals”, “3 Active”, “4 Later”, “5 Whenever” would be typical. And my view would have “group by text tag”, to ensure that the stuff that needs to get done really gets done, and the stuff that can wait, does wait.

 

Maybe that helps you; maybe it doesn’t.

 

Have a good week next week,

 

Michael Emerald, CFA

 

Performance Business Design

Owner, Business Strategy Consultant

(retired)

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