I'm a medical student, and I generally make a new project for each rotation or block I take. Within each project, there are several one-off tasks, and several repeating tasks. Some repeat on a time basis (log patient encounters every weekend or ever 5 days), and others are just linear (do 9 electronic cases before the end of the block).
For the latter, what I've been doing is to
- make a task
- cmd D (or C&P) to duplicate however many times
- go back and manually number them sequentially
- group them
- set the group to linear
I
love the end product, as a quick glance at whichever perspective will only show me the available task in the group "case number 3" as well as any other available tasks in that project, without cluttering the other cases.
This workflow of duplicating and numbering the tasks that I want to group seems like it would be very easy to automate, but a few searches haven't turned up any evidence that anyone has written a script for it. Does anyone know of such a script or a quicker way to do this? I could probably just do some plaintext grep stuff in textwrangler and drag-and-drop the text, but this would sure be a handy applescript and seems like it would be simple enough.
Normally this isn't too arduous to do manually, but I'm about to embark on an endeavor that will likely have a group of around 240 such sequential tasks, and that sounds like a pain to do manually.