Sometimes I have a single task that should be done every week.
I cannot set it as due or flagged. (Flagged means to do a task more or less today.)
Of course I can have a perspective which shows all weekly tasks, but is there a more appropriate way to do it?
I’m afraid I will not see it, that it will not come up.
/okn
Why not use a due and/or defer date?
https://support.omnigroup.com/documentation/omnifocus/universal/4.3.3/en/the-inspector/#repeat-inspector
Yes, there it is explained.
Due is for real serious due tasks, I’m using deferred.
Best is probably to test it and see if it appears in one of my Perspectives (or in Forecast?)
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best regards,
OmarKN
Generally, why couldn‘t you set it as due?
It is a time specific topic, so looking at Forecast would not be wrong.
I personally would decide if there‘s a certain day I want to/have to do it. Then work with defer (beginning of the week) and a due date (end of the week). Finally, I‘d usually notice it via Forecast perspective. That‘s what I look at at least once a day.
why couldn‘t you set it as due?
Not set as DUE probably because this task (cleaning screenshots regularly) is not really that important compared to a writing report which has to be ready at a definitive date.
Well, I have to see how it works and test it, I’ll report back on it.…
/okn
I don’t understand your problem. I have many tasks that repeat in certain rhythms (rather unimportant ones), such as descaling the espresso machine, refilling the heater with water, watering the plants, saving the iCal data as an ics file… and so on . All repeat tasks get a defer date and repeat themselves in different rhythms. I display these tasks in my Today perspective, in addition to important tasks (with due dates) and flagged tasks and tasks tagged with “@Today”. Where is your problem?
Not 100% sure what you are looking for, but have you tried using the forecast tag feature, e.g.you could use a tag like “next” and set your forecast view preferences to show that? And combine that with your defer date. so when that day comes round you will have that show up in your forecast from the defer date forwards.
Alright.
This is the task, set to repeat daily from deferred time 1 day:
And it did not show up today because of my Today Perspective…
… set to ”First Available”
ok when with ”Available” instead!
So far so good, however my Perspective ”Today general” now is very long, i.e. many tasks tagged with “soon” !
This could probably be improved, but how?
== OmniFocus is a thing! ==
/okn
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Check the project type of the parent project also, if it is parallel, sequential or single action, this can change what is filtered with “first available”.
Thanks for asking,
yes it’s parallel, and there are too many tasks which need to be done “soon” !
/okn
Yes, this is more or less my methodology, too.
/okn
How is this done? This is interesting.
I see that Forecast would catch ”Items on notification date.”
OF online UG has no SEARCh module!
/okn
