more flexible task recurrence options
There is no option to repeat the task on certain days of the week e.g. only workdays.
in my special case i have a job named 'answer emails' and i do it only at workdays...
Also, monthly on the last or before the last workday. Right now the recurrence is day number based, so it would be nice to have more abstract options like possibility to count from the end of months/years, take consideration workdays/weekends as option to count
more detailed examples:
a.) first tuesday OR thursday of the month (or of the quarter or the year), which is at least the fourth workday of the month(quarter/year)
b.) the n-th (work)day before the last (work)day of the month(quarter/year)
c.) 15th of a month or the next workday if 15th is a weekend
Also, additive functions, so multiple settings (e.g. first Tuesday of the month AND every Sunday).
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Sand red commented
This is a very necessary feature.
for example, I want to schedule a task
on certain days such as
Mon,Tue,Thu.
i can't do this i (task coach)
This is very inconvenient. I have to set myself an alarm clock.
on every day
I note that the alarm clock has this function
http://freealarmclocksoftware.com/ -
AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) commented
This is done well by Things on the Mac, and Task Coach should steal that concept.
If weekly is chosen, show checkboxes for each day of the week
If monthly: entry for # date of the month, or entry for #th weekday day of the month (e.g. 2nd thursday)
If yearly do the same as the monthly thing but add dropdown to choose which month(s)
See: https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/Can_I_create_a_repeating_tasks_for_weekdays_/_weekends%3F_%28FAQ%29
and: http://culturedcode.com/things/blog/2011/02/repeating-tasks-for-ios.htmlThings otherwise is much weaker than Task Coach, it just looks nice and has this one feature better than Task Coach.
Also, quarterly stuff isn't needed specially. It can be achieved by doing every 3 months, if the other requests here are completed.
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Don Dwiggins commented
I recommend checking out the recurrence dialog in the Stickies app (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/) -- it provides for daily, weekly (time of day, weekdays), monthly, either by day or "nth weekday", and yearly (date). (I can send a screenshot by request, or just install the program -- it's quite useful.)
Also, I agree with the suggestion to allow setting negative days of the month, to allow "last day" or even "n days before last day".
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Martin Fanta commented
Yes, tasks recurring only at workdays are a very common use-case. Also, an interesting idea would be to have tasks recurring on hourly-basis (currently the shortest recurrence is one day). I would suggest to have the possibility to define a custom schedule (e.g. each working day at 9am; each Wednesday at 10am and at 3pm and so on) and then apply the custom schedule to any task. Of course, it would take a little more thinking to align it with the start/due/reminder data concept.
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Lisa Foister commented
This would be wonderful -- there are so many things that happen on certain days more than once a week -- get the kids ready for school, work out, etc.
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Lisa Foister commented
This would be wonderful -- there are so many things that happen on certain days more than once a week -- get the kids ready for school, work out, etc.