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Originally Posted by Singleton

Well now boys don't get your panties in a wad....

My panties are quite fine, thank you. Appreciate your concern though.

Originally Posted by Singleton

It shouldn't matter if you are making something DAILY REPEAT.
Give me an example of why you would want to set something in these two different methods of decision, and I will understand the reasoning behind the extra decision making.

The difference between REPEAT FROM ASSIGNED DATE and REPEAT FROM COMPLETION DATE is that the first is used when you want a reminder of a hard due date; the second is used when you still want a reminder, but there's some flexibility as to when the task can actually be completed. Here are some examples:

Let's say you create a project entitled "Marjorie's Birthday," which contains a list of tasks such as: think of a present, buy a card, mail the card, etc. Now her birthday is on June 5th and she lives in another city, so you probably need to be finished with all of the tasks associated with her birthday by May 26th, in order to allow enough lead time for the present or card to get to her. Here's how that would look:

PROJECT: Marjorie's Birthday June 5th DUE DATE: 05/26/09

A present or just a card this year? CONTEXT: Thinking

Get a card at the Hallmark store CONTEXT: Errands

Mail card CONTEXT: Errands

But: 1) Marjorie's birthday occurs on the same date every year; and 2) You don't want this project cluttering up your daily view until you actually need to start dealing with it.

So, re: item 1, you select the project, "Marjorie's Birthday" and go to the Inspector window where you check REPEAT EVERY. The number 1 will automatically appear in the blank space, with the MINUTES option preselected. Change that to YEARS. Then beneath that, in the REPEAT FROM field, change the preselected option from COMPLETION DATE to ASSIGNED DATE. Why? Because Marjorie's birthday falls on the same date every year, and you need the same amount of lead time every year as well. In other words, it's a hard date, with no flexibility in when it can be completed.

Now, after you check off each task and then ultimately mark the project as complete, the entire project will pop up again, this time with the date of 05/26/10. (Upon completion, OF automatically bumped the project forward one year from your ASSIGNED due date of 05/26/09.)

Which brings us to item 2: You don't want that project that's not even due again until a year from now cluttering up your view every time you open OF. So when you first create the project, you not only assign a due date to it, but a start date as well. Say, you'd like a one month's lead time each year to prepare for Marjorie's birthday. Here's how it would look:

PROJECT: Marjorie's Birthday June 5th START DATE: 04/26/09 DUE DATE: 05/26/09

Now when you mark the project as completed this year it will disappear from your view until next year on 04/26/10 when you'll need to start working on it again.

The next example deals with the other repeat option: FROM COMPLETION DATE.

You have a Single Action List named "Miscellaneous Tasks" in which you want to create a task to remind you to clean your cat's litter box every week. Here's how that would look:

MISCELLANEOUS TASKS

Clean cat box DUE DATE: 04/07/09

You set your Repeat prefs in the Inspector to REPEAT EVERY 1 WEEK. REPEAT FROM COMPLETION DATE.

Tomorrow morning you open OF, and there it is in red: Clean cat box. But you've been mining for poop in that box every day since you last cleaned it, and it still looks pretty good. Your cat still seems pretty happy with it--he hasn't yet flung any feces at you after all--so it can probably wait another day or two. Now you have two choices in OF: Ignore the red reminder staring at you for the next two days, or if it bothers you that much, you can just go to the due date, make sure it's highlighted and enter 2d. That will push that task forward two days to 04/09/09 so you won't see it in red anymore. Two days later, on 04/09/09, your cat is no longer talking to you and when you open OF, there it is in red again: Clean cat box. So you go ahead and clean it. When you're done, after first making up with your cat of course, you mark the "Clean cat box" task as complete. As soon as you do that, it shows up again in your task list, but this time with the date bumped forward one week (04/16/09) from when you actually completed the task. You open OF one week later, on 4/16/09, and OF displays the reminder to you in red again. This time though, you decide to clean it exactly on that day. You mark the task as complete, and OF again bumps it forward one week. This repeated reminder continues on that way in perpetuity unless you delete the task or change the repeat interval.

Do you see the difference? Again, although you want to be reminded of two different tasks (or projects), one has a hard date attached to it, while the other has a due date that is flexible.

Originally Posted by Singleton

what was happening was I was getting a REPEAT
You try to check it off
it comes right back!
no check it off!
it comes right back!

Select the task or project, then go into the Inspector and you'll probably see that there is a check mark in front of the REPEAT EVERY pref. Uncheck that and those tasks should stop repeating. If they don't stop, then you need to go to your HELP menu and click on SEND FEEDBACK. Your email manager will open with a new message already addressed to the Omni folks. Just describe your situation as clearly and concisely as you can and send off the message. They will usually reply within 24 hours--that's been my experience at least.

Hope this helps.