Comments on: Recurring Tasks XXL

By: ds

ds — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:54:52 +0000

What does this mean: “And on Leopard you can even use iCal events as a pattern (think ‚ÄúBirthday calendars‚Äù).”

I’ve seen that option in Things and can’t figure out what it does.

By: Mario

Mario — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:39:10 +0000

Thanks Jürgen and the Things-Team!

I love the repeating to-do-feature, just one thing that drives me mad is that cannot assign those templates to projects! I have lots of repeating to dos and I’d like to be able to drag and drop the template on a project, so the todo always gets created as part of a certain project…

Otherwise the whole organising structure of “projects” is breaking down!

Hope that will be possible soon.
Thanks again and cheers
Mario

By: Kai

Kai — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:38:37 +0000

For me, this one feature moved ‘Things’ from the pretty-cool category into the can’t-live-without-it category. I’ll be purchasing my copy of Things within the week. This is absolutely *fabulous* software – thanks so much for your hard work in developing it!

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:23:20 +0000

@Saxon. This is possible. Select “Projects” in the sidebar and double click the relevant project. You will find an action gear button on the lower right. If this doesn’t work then your project is in an area. Unfortunately there is a bug relevant for projects in areas. This bug will be fixed very soon (this week).

The procedure above repeats the entire project. There is currently no way to repeat to-dos within projects. But that will be remedied in a future update.

By: Saxon

Saxon — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:58:40 +0000

The recurring tasks feature looks extremely well designed; thanks!

Is there any way of extending this to projects? I have about 17 tasks in a project I have to do at the end of every month and it would be wonderful to just stick them all in one recurring project than to make 17 recurring ones and move them into a project every month.

By: Ken Botwinick

Ken Botwinick — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:06:47 +0000

But other than that I think the implementation is fantastic and absolutely the best I’ve seen for repeating tasks… :)

I look forward to the same well thought out quality for dependent tasks… I still really like my idea of grouping them together like photos in an Aperture stack so you can collapse the stack and hide the dependent ones until the top task is complete… Then you could have stacks of dependent tasks and other normal tasks all together in the same project… ;)

By: Ken Botwinick

Ken Botwinick — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:02:40 +0000

“Instead, on the dates you specified, copies of the relevant templates are made and put into the Today list.”

I think repeating tasks/projects should have the option of being created in Next instead of Today. Maybe I don’t want to think about doing a task again until one week after I’ve done it. But that doesn’t necessarily mean I want it to pop up in the Today focus at that time.

For instance, I have a lot of little things that can never really be finished that I work on all the time. To try and force myself to spread out the effort, I might work on one for a half hour or so. But then I don’t want to work on that for another couple days so I can be balanced and work on some of the other things. So I don’t want it on my lists for a couple days (out of sight, out of mind), but when it comes around again it’s not necessarily a Today priority…

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:25:37 +0000

@pgauntlett: Say you are in the Scheduled list. When you create a new repeating to-do which you set to repeat “after last completion”, Things is also creating a copy in “Today”. This is your first actual to-do you can check off. Of course, it can be moved to other lists if you so desire. 3 month after you marked it complete a new one is created.

You can also work the other way round. In any list, suppose you have created a task you want to repeat after completion. Double click the item to edit it, use the gear button to make it repeating and set it to “after completion”. In this case a template is created for you in Scheduled and the to-do you were just editing is used as the first copy waiting to be completed.

By: pgauntlett

pgauntlett — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:38:57 +0000

This looks great – its what I have been waiting for to migrate my tasls from Omnifocus. Just one question. If I set up a scheduled “to do” as, say, three months after completion of the last one, how does Things know when the last one was?

By: rishabh

rishabh — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:47:27 +0000

lovin’ the new update. keep up the good work!