Comment 5 for bug 734622

Hi Lucas,
   Sorry but I have since moved on from using gtg. I am currently using
remember the milk.

Cheers,
Arun Tejasvi Chaganty
Sent from my mobile phone
Please excuse any brevity.
On Dec 17, 2014 9:15 PM, "Lukas Barth" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Is this still in the making? In fact, for me, this is the biggest
> downside of GTG. So many things I have to do on a weekly basis, and no
> way of putting it in GTG.
>
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>
> Title:
> Repeating Tasks
>
> Status in Getting Things GNOME!:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> This is a wanted feature that would complete my transition to Ubuntu.
> I'd love to be able to create repeating tasks.
>
> For example, I have a task that is "Keep up with 2011 Finances". A
> subtask for this would be "Weekly Financial Record Keeping", which I
> need to do every week. Currently, to do this, I would need to create
> 52 tasks and change the start date for each to the beginning of every
> week. This would be a pain to do manually.
>
> Another example: I have a folder where I collect new info that I need
> to read and process. I tend to do this every two weeks although I
> sometimes procrastinate it out for 3 weeks. I would need this to
> repeat 2 weeks after I completed it.
>
> For people who have tasks like this, this makes keeping task list up
> to date much easier. For people who don't need it, it can be ignored
> easily.
>
> As far as implementation goes, this can be added under the start and
> due date in the task window. You would need a repeat drop down with
> "None" (the default), "Daily", "Bi-weekly", "Weekly", "Bi-monthly",
> "monthly", "Quarterly", and "Yearly". Then you would need an option
> for "Depends on Previous Completion". An alternative would be a number
> field and a Drop down for "Days", "Weeks", "Months", "Quarters",
> "Years". You could also have an option for end date or repeat n times
> although not 100% necessary.
>
> Programatically, for non-completion dependent tasks, you could go
> ahead and create a number of tasks with start dates specific to the
> repeat option choosen. When a task is completed, you can check if it
> is a completion dependent task and create a new one if it is. If you
> only wanted to offer one of the two repeat types, I think that
> completion dependant tasks are more common and probably easier to
> program.
>
> Repeat can be refined later, but getting some sort of repeat would
> greatly improve this app.
>
> Just as a note, I was previously using Mac app, The Hit List, which is
> my basis for the repeating task explanation. Also, if you end up
> deciding against this, maybe a duplicate task option would be a good
> compromise so I could duplicate and change the start date.
>
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