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I have tasks that repeat on the first Wednesday of every month and others on the last Monday. I haven't found a good method for this. What I do is repeat every four weeks and then, before completing the task, I manually check the calendar to see if the next instance should be after 4 or after 5 weeks.

This is a pain and when I'm in a hurry, I sometimes get it wrong or even forget that I must do this. In fact, for the tasks that I really can't miss I have switched to using Apple's Calendar which lets me repeat on a specific week day of the month.

Any hope for a fix in OF? Or maybe someone has a better method to suggest.

Thanks,
Ellen
 
Still a workaround, but you could set up six or twelve months at a time (and make a task to do that again for the next round).
 
Your suggestion is still better than my current method. I'll try it.
Thanks.

Is there a place where I can vote for a fix for this, or officially ask for one? Maybe lots of people need it but not many come here to say so. They just find a workaround like yours.
 
To make a feature request, or ask a question and be guaranteed an answer from Omni, use Help->Send Feedback.
 
I checked my mail archive and found that I sent feedback on this exact subject during the first week of my trial period in September 2008. Four years ago!

The reply was : “I've added your suggestion into our database. (We could really use this ourselves.)”.

It was the first thing I missed in OF. I got used to my crummy workaround and just recently got really annoyed with it.

Well, well. There must be some really big hurdles to get this into OF. And I just realized with some surprise that we're still at version 1. So, here's to hoping for a version 2...

Ellen
 
I only promise that submitting such a request will get it to the right people, not that they will necessarily drop everything and fulfill the request. I'm sure that if no other requests for features had been received, you would have gotten it by now, but I'm personally acquainted with quite a few requests, and I don't think everyone else is shy, either :-). They take the number of requests for a feature into account when planning their work, but I haven't heard anyone say that the age of the request is given any consideration.

Another workaround is to put a repeating event in iCal (which does offer such repeat options) that says "hey, put an action to do XYZ in OmniFocus" — with a bit more effort, you could come up with some AppleScript to run as part of that iCal notification that inserts the action for you.
 
 


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