Hi Dwight. Yes, I did see this although I'm not sure how it's useful.
I want direct access to subtasks after opening the task on the phone as this is where I'll be reacting to most reminders and taking action as a result. Having subtasks represent the items on my checklist seemed the most obvious way to do this, but without that pathway it doesn't work. Skipping tasks is, as you say, really useful and I can how see the 'skip all up to present' would be useful although I haven't had a situation yet where it is (only a matter of time, though), but skipping is also the easy way to generate the next instance without leaving a completed task. Whilst this is normally not a problem, there will be situations where having a record of which instances were actually completed, rather than skipped could be very useful. As I said in my reply to Laurence, it was when I was using a folder as the checklist itself that I had not been able to use Skip because it isn't available on the phone app. Tolqua. On Wednesday, 11 May 2016 03:40:31 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > On 4/28/2016 3:55 AM, Tolqua wrote: > > I'm quite surprised to learn that recurrence options actually don't > > apply to folders at all > Did you catch Laurence Glazier's post? He pointed out that you can set > up a recurring folder and then cause it to regenerate its subtasks by > right clicking the folder and selecting "skip occurence" > > I'm still amazed that there's no clear path to sub-tasks when opening > > a task - Am I missing something obvious or is there some logical > > reason that this wouldn't work? > On Windows, if you are using a view that does not show subtasks because > it's a flat (or non-hierarchical, or to-do) view, you can position the > cursor at the beginning of a task and doubleclick and MLO will open an > "all tasks" (hierarchical) view with the same task selected. Its > subtasks will be right there under it, unless it's collapsed in which > case a single click will expand it. > > There also appears to be no way to 'skip' an instance of a recurring > > task from it's reminder (as in Outlook, for example). Looks like this > > can only be done in the properties window in the desktop app. Surely > > not? This is a really basic 'must-have' - I'm finding I can only do > > this by completing the task then deleting the completed task - very > > clumsy. > Skipping is a really great feature especially if you have missed several > occurrences of the task and you want to skip all of them up to today. If > you are just trying to skip a single, current occurrence I do not > understand what is so important about skipping - why notjust complete > the task, which you can easily do from any view or from the reminder. I > am guessing that it's because you don't want to be bothered about > deleting the completed task. But there are other excellent ways of > avoiding that. For one thing you can turn on automatic archiving of any > task that has been completed for more than one hour. Or, when you set up > the recurrence pattern (using the Task Recurrence pop-up) you can click > the Advanced Options button and then, in the Task Recurrence Advanced > Options popup, tick the checkbox for "Do not create a completed copy of > this task on recurring" > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/6de1d086-2458-4677-8be4-a014e43a0a53%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
