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[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To cherry-pick only one item...

On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 17:01 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:47:44PM +0200, Elias Jarlebring wrote:
> > * Weekly review adding script:
> > 
> > As a part of my weekly review I have a number of actions (subtasks)
> > and a project (task) which are things I want add, e.g., "Do sports
> > 1", "Do sports 2", "Water plants (wednesday)",  "Do stretching
> > exercise 1", "Do stretching exercise 2", etc. This is quite long
> > list in my case.
> 
> Yeah, this sounds like the 'recurring tasks' feature which a lot of us
> hope to see in gtg.
> 
> Your workaround seems sane, although I use a different approach to
> workaround it.  For each task that is going to recur, I write it
> like this:
> 
>  "Water plants; then replan for next Wed"
>  "Clear inbox by 50%; then replan for tomorrow"
>  "Do filing 2 hrs; then replan for next month"
> 
> This then reminds me when I do these tasks to instead of marking them
> Done, to instead change the start date to the next date occurrence.

  Most applications which support iCalendar have some support for its
concept of recurrence, which is ONE event that occurs repeatedly. To
mirror this concept in GTG would require some sort of container object
that contains multiple tasks, or tasks that don't actually get marked
'Done'. IMO, that would be awkward and perhaps not a 1:1 match to any
actual GTD concept.

  Bryce's approach suggests a different model: automating the 'replan'.
Tasks marked as recurring (or having a tag marking them as recurring)
are actually marked 'Done', but a new, duplicate task is automatically
created with dates advanced by a specific interval.

  For Elias' situation, where there is a *set* of hierarchical tasks, a
cron-like regular import from a specific file might be helpful.

-- 
Paul Kishimoto
MASc candidate (2010), Flight Systems & Control Group
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS)

http://paul.kishimoto.name — +19053029315

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