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Customize when your day begins/ends (e.g. night owls might want their 'Today' list to show tasks due up to 2am, not midnight)

michael.vastola Pro says:

For people like me who are college students, or for night owls, "Today"'s To Do list often doesn't end at midnight.

It would be great if there were some way to specify *when* you want "today's" tasks to become "overdue" and when "tomorrow's" tasks to appear on "today's" list of things to do.

For instance, if I mark something as due on a given day, normally getting it done at 11pm is functionally equivalent to getting it done at 1am on what is technically the next day.

It's disorienting/overwhelming though when you're up trying to finish up today's tasks and suddenly RTM tells you your things are overdue when they aren't and your task list doubles because the next days tasks (which I don't want to think about 'till tomorrow morning at the earliest) are thrust into focus.

Posted at 4:17am on September 9, 2009

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mehardin Pro says:

That would be a nice feature. In the mean time, if I were prone to finishing a lot of task after midnight I would consider fudging on my time zone, using one that is one or two hours earlier.

The only task I have this happen on is exercise. Sometimes I don't get in my walk/run until the end of the day. I may leave the house at 10:30 and go walk for a hour and a half. Even if I get in slightly BEFORE midnight, I don't really want to get on the computer to mark Exercise complete until after my shower. If I mark it complete after midnight, and it's set to repeat "after one day" then it doesn't show up for another day.

I have to either mark it complete before I walk out the door, or when I get back just postpone it, so their will be another instance on the new day.

Posted 3 years ago

matthew.zagaja says:

I third this suggestion.

Posted 3 years ago

tatiana.colli Pro says:

Me too!

Posted 3 years ago

tatiana.colli Pro says:

Also I like to do a daily and weekly review of my completed tasks and doing things after midnight can be confusing because I'll never remember whether something was done on time or not ("on time" for me is before bed). Maybe Rmilk can permanently indicate the time that a task is completed so I can figure it out from there.

A workaround for me might be to mark all today's tasks complete and at the end of the day click "uncomplete" on whatever wasn't finished. It's a bit tedious but it'll work for now.

Anyway keep up the good work Rmilk!

Posted 3 years ago

ranbarton ProPower Poster says:

If you assign times of 6am (or later) to all of your tasks due on a given day, then you can use a smartlist set show items due:now, and it will not show you the next day's items until you have been up so long that it really is the next day.

More here: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/8068/

Another RTM niggle addressed by a smartlist.

Posted 3 years ago

tatiana.colli Pro says:

That helps, thanks!

Posted 3 years ago

codyeilrich Pro says:

+1

Mainly so a day doesn't get skipped when completing the after 1 day tasks after midnight. I'm not sure if fudging the time zone works. Anyone?

Posted 9 months ago

veep Pro says:

I've tried fudging the timezone to make this work (and the Help docs correctly warn you not to fudge your timezone, as things break.)

Daily recurring tasks are just broken if you do anything after midnight, and I get lots of stuff done after midnight (once everyone else is asleep).

A constant source of frustration.

Posted 4 months ago

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