How to do what I want in Remember the Milk?
November 18, 2013 3:15 AM Subscribe
I have daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal tasks. I want these tasks to show up on their due date and stay on my to do list until I complete them. Then I want them to disappear until the next due date.
But instead of showing me what repeating tasks are currently due, my inbox shows me the next instance of ALL repeating tasks. How can I use RTM to only show me the tasks that are currently due?
Thanks.
Response by poster: Do you mean do a new search every day? Isn't there a way I can just use my inbox as a todo list?
posted by skidoom at 4:34 AM on November 18, 2013
posted by skidoom at 4:34 AM on November 18, 2013
I think most power users use various groupings and saved searches to interact with RTM. You can do everything you need in the tab it creates: complete tasks, delete tasks, tag them. The only caveat is that you can only create tasks in your inbox (or any other list you have made). But as you are making repeating tasks I assume you only need to do it once.
I made a screenshot to explain what I mean.
This solution will do what you need. It just won't be in your 'inbox'
posted by TheOtherGuy at 4:53 AM on November 18, 2013
I made a screenshot to explain what I mean.
This solution will do what you need. It just won't be in your 'inbox'
posted by TheOtherGuy at 4:53 AM on November 18, 2013
If you set up the search, you'd likely set that as your bookmark for remember the milk, so instead of doing a new search every day, it would just be your default way of accessing the function.
Depending on what other kinds of tasks you use it for, you could just use the 'Overdue' view as your default. You think of your tasks as things to start on whatever day they show up on your list, but RTM thinks of those as deadlines to finish them, basically, so if you set up the tasks such that they're scheduled on the day you want to do them and then view them through the lens of 'things that RTM thinks are overdue are actually due now', you should get a pretty workable solution, provided you don't have other more due-date oriented tasks on your list.
posted by jacquilynne at 4:58 AM on November 18, 2013
Depending on what other kinds of tasks you use it for, you could just use the 'Overdue' view as your default. You think of your tasks as things to start on whatever day they show up on your list, but RTM thinks of those as deadlines to finish them, basically, so if you set up the tasks such that they're scheduled on the day you want to do them and then view them through the lens of 'things that RTM thinks are overdue are actually due now', you should get a pretty workable solution, provided you don't have other more due-date oriented tasks on your list.
posted by jacquilynne at 4:58 AM on November 18, 2013
Any chance you are interested in using the mobile app rather than the web interface? The Android widget, and I think the iPad app as well although I use it less often, show me as their default setting stuff due today and stuff overdue that I haven't checked off yet. I can mess around with it and see future items if I want to, but by default I just see everything due now.
posted by Stacey at 5:32 AM on November 18, 2013
posted by Stacey at 5:32 AM on November 18, 2013
I'm biased, but my own todo list does exactly what you're asking for, with its recurring tasks (daily, weekly, monthly tasks with rollover) - though not seasonal, sorry. Happy to give you a premium account to try it out if you MeFi Mail me.
posted by mark7570 at 9:09 AM on November 18, 2013
posted by mark7570 at 9:09 AM on November 18, 2013
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dueWithin:"1 day of today" OR dueBefore:today
The search options in RTM are quite powerful. Check out the options here
posted by TheOtherGuy at 4:26 AM on November 18, 2013