I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this. It really should be obvious and easy... I suspect I'm just missing something.
I want to create a task that's almost always available, except when I've just completed it, and that has a due date. In this case, the task is, "dump BlackBerry tasks into Inbox". My BlackBerry (work-provided, don't hold it against me ;) is the only thing that I have with me 100% of the time, even more than pen and paper, so it tends to get random notes as I think of them throughout the day.
So, I created an action that repeated daily, started at 3pm the next day, and was due at midnight the next day. What I thought that would do was give me an action that I must do daily, and starts to yell at me (with an overdue) if I don't, but then once I do it, leaves me alone until the next afternoon.
That's what I thought it would do... instead, as soon as I click the checkbox, a next item gets created, with a start date of December 4th. (Why the 4th? Dunno. That was probably when I created the first action.) The due date is tonight at midnight. I click the checkbox, a new one, start of December 4th, end of midnight tonight, gets created. And so on and so on.
Yes, I wanted to play "whack-a-mole" with this action, but I did want a brief breather between the appearances of the mole... this isn't whack-a-mole, this is Sisyphus :)
Is it possible in OmniFocus to do what I want? Have an action, like vacuuming the apartment or brushing teeth or whatever, that can almost always be done, except when you just did it, and gets more and more insistent (i.e., becomes overdue) the longer it's been since you last did it?
I give up on trying to do it with the "Repeat" and "Dates" inspectors; they seem intuitive and obvious, but their behavior is actually quite arcane, isn't it?
I want to create a task that's almost always available, except when I've just completed it, and that has a due date. In this case, the task is, "dump BlackBerry tasks into Inbox". My BlackBerry (work-provided, don't hold it against me ;) is the only thing that I have with me 100% of the time, even more than pen and paper, so it tends to get random notes as I think of them throughout the day.
So, I created an action that repeated daily, started at 3pm the next day, and was due at midnight the next day. What I thought that would do was give me an action that I must do daily, and starts to yell at me (with an overdue) if I don't, but then once I do it, leaves me alone until the next afternoon.
That's what I thought it would do... instead, as soon as I click the checkbox, a next item gets created, with a start date of December 4th. (Why the 4th? Dunno. That was probably when I created the first action.) The due date is tonight at midnight. I click the checkbox, a new one, start of December 4th, end of midnight tonight, gets created. And so on and so on.
Yes, I wanted to play "whack-a-mole" with this action, but I did want a brief breather between the appearances of the mole... this isn't whack-a-mole, this is Sisyphus :)
Is it possible in OmniFocus to do what I want? Have an action, like vacuuming the apartment or brushing teeth or whatever, that can almost always be done, except when you just did it, and gets more and more insistent (i.e., becomes overdue) the longer it's been since you last did it?
I give up on trying to do it with the "Repeat" and "Dates" inspectors; they seem intuitive and obvious, but their behavior is actually quite arcane, isn't it?
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