Thank you for your advice. Good idea. I'll give it a try. ====== Bedrudin
On 20 Aug., 10:55, daneb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > you probably cannot do it. How I would do it - from my experience, I > tend to using MLO more and more easily, it enables me to focus more on > actual work than on organizing and customizing THAT macro or rule. So > I stopped to use all recurrences at all, and when some tasks is > recurrent, I use symbol % in caption. When it is tasks which should be > repeated sometimes in the future but it depends on many circumstances > (e.g. to buy new batteries - I do not know exactly when the old > batteries will run out), I put only % (% buy new baterries) and when > completing this task, I mark it as hidden (do not delete it) and > during weekly review I go through all the tasks, checking if % tasks > needs to start (I call it "repeated as needed" tasks). > > When I have regularly repeating tasks, I put time interval after %. > Thus "jogging (%w)" remember me to run every week. But - for me the > biggest advantage of this system is that I do not know exactly every > week if I will jog on Monday or Sunday, so I can adjust due date case- > by-case, day-by-day, which is something you cannot do if you have your > recurrences set on. That is the main reason I found recurrences > inflexible. > > So I would solve your problem by adding "%sa" to the task name, which > reminds me to put new due date to next Saturday immediately after > completing this tasks. And again, if by chance you decide that just > for NEXT WEEK it would be better to schedule it for Friday, you can do > it easily, which is something you cannot do with recurrences set on. > > Best > Daneb > > On Aug 11, 4:29 am, Bedrudin <[email protected]> wrote:> Hi, > > > one time I asked myself how to realize the following in MLO recurrence > > definition: recur on saturday after completion. > > > For e.g. if I have a task which is due on friday, 12th of August 2011, > > I want it to recur on Saturday after completion. So if I complete it > > today (Thursday, 11th August 2011), I want the new due date is on > > Saturday 13th August 2011. And if I was delayed and complete it on > > Sunday, 14th August 2011, I want the new due date on Saturday, 20th > > August 2011. > > > Any ideas how I can realize this? > > > Regards > > ======= > > Bedrudin > > ======= -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
