[julienl]

Hi,

Sometimes I use a repeating action if it's really just a single unbreakable action. I don't know if it applies to your situation but when I have such tasks, it is often because I know I need to "get to know" an idea (especially for relatively creative tasks) until I figure out how to do it, or because there is a large quantity of manual processing to do; it means I want to do some of it more or less regularly every day / week / 2 weeks / etc.

Let's say I want to prepare some slides for a presentation in a couple of months:
- I will create an action "Work on presentation for XYZ"
- possibly with the ultimate due date in the notes (but it would probably be in my calendar)
- due date on Friday
- repeat every Friday (or some other repeat pattern that makes sense)

If inspiration strikes early in the week I simply work a little bit, otherwise depending on your preferences as you get near to Friday it will be "due soon" and "overdue" if you wait long enough. Then when you have done your homework, you check the action and it will generate the next action which will be your next notification.

Julien