Recurring reminders nested within a list
I'm doing the green belt training: mastering lists. I've never been able to work out how to do something and was hoping this training would cover it but it doesn't.
What I am trying to do is create a list that has recurring items within it but not show up as individual recurring task items.
I've created my list: Birthdays.
Within that list I want to have a sublist of dates that will recur on an annual basis with a scheduled reminder.
I have got around this by creating a task per date, setting it as a recurring one, and scheduling a reminder for each.
The problem is that every single date appears in my recurring tasks lists when actually the recurring task list name that I want to identify this group of tasks by is simply 'Birthdays'.
I think perhaps this way of doing things sits just outside the idea of what the current use of recurring tasks is. I have previously requested an idea - which is planned - called recurring reminders, which I think partly addresses this issue.
Can we just have recurring reminders that sit within a list and don't require setting as recurring tasks to have them recur?
Cheers :)
Saz Bailey
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Saz Bailey
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Thanks for including this in Simpleoplogy. I can't work out what has changed. I have checked my 'Birthdays' list to see how I might set this up now.
If I select one if my tasks (a birthday) and set it as a recurring task it then shows up (as it did before) as an individual bday (and so the problem remains in displaying all bdays in my recurring task list).
I also tried creating a recurring task called 'Birthdays' and listed one of the days in the nested list. It doesn't then provide the option to make the nested items recurring.
Can you coach me on how this should work?
Many thanks, Saz
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Lauren Smith
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I too want this feature.
In the meantime what about a folder call birthdays. Enter one task per birthday with a reminder date of the birthday. Each year you will need to reset it to the next year