[Bruce L]

I have found what appears to be an anomaly in OF. Sometimes when I accidently check a recurring 'ToDo' as complete and then uncheck it because I haven't completed it yet, the item will duplicate itself for the next period.

So let's say that I have a recurring 'ToDo' to backup my computer every Saturday, and accidently check it off as complete because I meant to check the item above it. So I uncheck it until I do complete it. Then next Saturday I will have the exact same 'ToDo' appear twice. So I delete one of the 'ToDos' and everything is okay again.

I wanted to report this in case anyone else has noticed this anomaly, and so that OF team is aware of this.

[Chris]

Yes, I see this too, but hadn't associated it with checking and unchecking an item.

[brianogilvie]

This occurs because marking a repeating action complete is what tells OmniFocus to generate the new action. If you hit Undo (Command-Z), you'll uncheck the action AND get rid of the duplicate action in one fell swoop.

[Bruce L]

Thank you Brian. I did not know that. And thank you for the keyboard command.

[Chris]

I didn't realize that either (that undo would work). But this seems like a hole in the UI. Surely the intent of the user is not to duplicate his or her actions in this situation. Perhaps the new item shouldn't be created until the user hits "Clean Up" equivalent.

[Brian]

What Brian said before is correct. Undo is the way to go here.

While we could try to write a whole bunch of code that did 'the right thing' if you checked and then unchecked an action, it would be prone to doing the wrong thing in edge cases, and it would be duplicating existing Apple code that they've spent years refining.

It's just not the best use of engineering time.