I use it for "do when you can" recurring tasks. E.g., "clean the refrigerator condenser coils". I want to know when these _begin_ to become due but they don't have a hard due date per se. And they recur x weeks after they are completed. So I want them to "start" but not be "due" and I want them to recur after I complete them.
I hope that's clear. Dan g. On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 2:58 AM Huw Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - I'd love to know how you're using start date for tasks. It obviously > seems important to you, but I've never needed it. The way I approach tasks > is very schedule focused, so I'm interested in what I need or plan to do > today. So a couple of examples: > 1. wash car - this is a repeating task, due every 2 weeks. So it pops up > in my list when due. > 2. pay gas bill - this is a repeating task every 3 months, again it'll pop > up when due. > 3. create dashboard report - this is a task that will take me about 2 > weeks to complete, doing 30 min or 1 hour work chunks every 2-3 days. So I > create a master task for the overall job, then sub-tasks for a work chunk. > I can use the next action to see the next work chunk and keep completing > those until just the master task remains - when hopefully it's done :) > This last task is one where I could mark it as started, but I've never > understood what value that gives me. Is this where you would use this > field? > > My next question is, why would you want a task that repeats by start date, > not due date. May be answered by above. > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/gob4qdBC_gQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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/f882e39f-3916-46b7-90d2-d681aeae8b9f%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/CAGe5VP-vQEzUypZ_cATtbd_HydtdMLVFOL3_N3wYcYUQt%3DJwHw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
