Hi, Dave. As you know you cannot create a recurrence without a due date. Here's a workaround, which fails on your requirement for something "simple" but more-or-less does what you want. -Create a task named "parent" with start and due date set for the intended start date of your next instance of the thing you have to do. Create a context named "hidden" and set "hide-in-todo" in the context properties in the F8 manage contexts popup. Assign your parent task to the hidden context. In the recurrence popup, set the parent task to recur 3 weeks after completion or any other "recurrs after" schedule you like. In advanced recurrence options, select "reset all tasks to uncompleted" and "automatically recurr when any subtask is completed". Now, create a child task under this parent. Name it after the thing you have to do. Do not set any recurrence. In the timing and reminders section, turn on the checkbox next to start date then turn off the checkbox next to due date. You should now have "inherit parent dates" turned off, with the next time you have to do this thing as the start date and the due date blank. If the dates have gotten messed up at all, edit them to put the correct dates in.
Now, in your to-do list, once the start date has arrived you should see the task but not its parent, the task should have the correct start date and no due date. When you complete the task it should be recreated with a start date 3 weeks later (or whatever interval you chose). There's one gotcha: If you assign a due date to the task, let's say three days later than the start date, when you complete the task and it is regenerated, it will have a due date three days later than the new start date. Unavoidable, sorry, when that happens you just have to clear the due date yourself. To answer your question, I would be in favor of allowing recurrence with start date and no due date and would vote for this in uservoice if you set it up. However, there are a lot of other things I would consider a higher priority, like showing the result of start date parsing in the parsing results window, and allowing both start and due dates to be specified separately in parsing a task caption. -Dwight On Monday, September 2, 2013 5:32:26 PM UTC-4, Dave Cunningham wrote: > > Hi, friends. I'm interested in creating recurring tasks without the > requirement that there is a DUE date. I just want the task to start > appearing a certain number of days/weeks/months after I completed the last > instance. I want this because I don't want the due date for many tasks - > their due date isn't firm, and I want due date to represent a commitment in > my task list. (I'm finding that not respecting the due date in an absolute > way causes me to spend too much time figuring out what I should work on). > > I reviewed several previous posts, and I didn't find anything that > provided a clean answer. I know I can achieve this with views and playing > around, or I can create the next instance myself when I complete the > current task...but I don't want to do either. I want a simple way to have > the task appear beginning at a certain time, and I'll decide then when it > really should be completed. Is this feature significant enough to others > to consider for a future release? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/67e75711-d1b5-4a2e-9b46-36251aa32bd8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
