> I have been testing using Remind to handle tasks to-do that have a > recurring timeframe. The problem is that I often do not do them on > the day that I should.
As you note, this is a logical featuring to have in any task management system, and yet, almost none of them have this feature (the exceptions being Sciral Consistency and yeaGTD). > What I'd like to do is: > > REM September 30 2008 *1 #*38# MSG This is a task you've not done yet, > but when you do it, comment out the *1 and uncomment the *38 so that > it'll appear 38 days from today.% > > With the "#" acting as a commenting-out just for that portion of the command. > > Is there a character that currently does that? I'm not a Remind expert, so the way I would do this is to write a script that searches through my remind.txt file (for some unique sub-string of the event message) and revises the date and/or comment-state of the event. (I think you have to revise the date, otherwise the reminder will come 38 days after whatever the *original* date of the event was.) > Alternatively, has anyone else figured out another way to address the > problem of a task that normally needs to repeat a certain number of > days later, but in the meantime needs to stay on your schedule until > you do it? For a long list of attempts to do so in remind, see this thread: http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/private/remind-fans/2006/000707.html There seems to be no non-password-protected archive of [Remind-Fans]... The title of the thread is "basing task recurrance schedule on completed date/time" [sic]. You may find the TextMate bundle of interest. drw _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
