Yes, your 'clear dead plant' example is precisely the sort of 'one-off task' I was talking about - although in this case it is mixed in with tasks that you do want to reset to not done - which makes the requirement slightly more difficult to address.
Perhaps a 'Recur this sub-task when parent recurs' flag against the sub-tasks? I have sacrificed one of my votes on UserVoice to add this. As for the missed daily task, if you have multiple occurrences outstanding, would you want it to recur immediately, which is what happens when you mark it done?. The 'recur 1 day after' doesn't work for reasons that I outlined in my reply to Lisa. At the moment, I do use the 'Skip occurrence' option but given that I still can't see why you would immediately want to see another occurrence of the task if you have just marked it done, I would still favour an approach which, when you mark the first instance done, cycles through the repeat pattern until it gets to date/time in the future From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of dwight Sent: 06 February 2011 4:10 AM To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [MLO] Feature request: when marking a recurring task completed, keep completed sub-tasks with completed copy of task Hi Richard. Regarding your "one-off" scenario, I do not entirely follow what you are saying but I do have a similar situation - Is this anything to do with your request? I have a recurring weekly task having to do with closing my office for the week. There are a dozen or so subtasks. The recurring task is defined as a project, with "reset all subtasks to uncompleted" and "Automatically recur when all subtasks are complete" - I love the way that this works. Sometimes I think of a new thing that needs to be added to the routine, like "fill birdfeeder" and I stick in a new subtask, which will recur from now on. And sometimes there's something I just want to remember to do once, like "discard dead plant". Maybe this is like your one-off. So I will add it to the project, and when I've finished the project I have to remember to go in and delete it from next week's project. It would be great to have a way to add in this subtask in a way that says, "when everything else recurs, do not recur this task. If THAT's what you mean, and you put this up on uservoice, I'll vote for it. Regarding the missed daily task, if there is something I am supposed to do daily and I miss a couple of days, there's a good chance that I have to do it a few times to catch up, and it's helpful to have multiple occurrences. If it does not really matter if I missed it or not, so long as it's in my task list every day, I would do as Lisa suggested and have it recur one day after each time it's completed. Or, if I really want to do it daily but I miss a few days, I would right-click the task and select "skip occurrence" then pick "skip all occurrences up to today" then perform today's task, mark it complete, and the task will reoccur for tomorrow. -Dwight From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lisa Stroyan Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 10:44 PM To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [MLO] Feature request: when marking a recurring task completed, keep completed sub-tasks with completed copy of task At 11:40 AM 2/5/2011, you wrote: If you have a recurring task and then add (one-off) sub-tasks to it and then mark these done followed by marking the recurring task done, the completed sub-tasks are left attached to the 'new' uncompleted task (assuming you don't have the automatic resetting of sub-tasks enabled). Logically, they should be left attached to the completed copy (assuming you have this enabled) as they were effectively completed as specific sub-tasks of that particular instance of the recurring task. How do you create one-off subtasks under a recurring task? I thought the recurrence applied to the tree...I suppose if you don't "inherit dates" it could be seen either way....I'm confused but it's been a long day so it's probably me :) And whilst I am on the subject of recurring tasks, another minor annoyance is that if you have a recurring task with a short recurring interval (eg every day) and several days (say) have passed, when you mark that task completed, the new occurrence should be set to the next occurrence after the current date/time. Are you looking for the already existing feature, "recur 1 day" (or X days) after this task is completed? I think this feature already exists and you just have to choose it. 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