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Great tip !

Posted at 12:25pm on May 26, 2009

That's a great idea!

Posted at 1:33pm on May 28, 2009

Great!

Posted at 4:29pm on May 28, 2009

Hi nmj3e,

Thanks for sharing this tip!

Just wanted to let you know that your tip is this week's Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner.

We've upgraded your RTM account to have a free year of Pro. :)

Posted at 8:28am on June 9, 2009

I have created the smart list called "Status Reports" that shows the following" completedWithin:”1 week of today” but I get nothing in the list. Any ideas as to why this is?

Posted at 3:19pm on June 9, 2009

leah.shalom

nmj3e,

Do you share the list with your boss or do you print it? Do you use any special printing format?

Thanks for the great idea.

Leah

Posted at 4:51pm on June 9, 2009

felixc

That is a phenomenal idea!

Posted at 8:05pm on June 10, 2009

My list is empty too :(

(and no that's not cos I haven't done anything :p)

Posted at 2:00pm on June 12, 2009

russwinkler

Thanks. As I work in the Federal Gov't and at home a few times a week, I have to submit a report at the end of the week detailing my work. What you described sounds just what I need!

Posted at 4:28am on June 14, 2009

no luck here. The resulting list is empty.

Posted at 9:53am on June 15, 2009

rajjan

You all get the wrong types of quotation marks when you copy the text. Use the keyboard instead and it will work perfectly.

Posted at 11:13am on June 15, 2009

benb

Great idea. I have a 6 monthly review, and this is going to be so much easier to see what I've been doing at work for the last 6 months.

Obviously you have to remember to put everything in, but you should be doing that anyway, right? :-)

Posted at 9:19am on June 16, 2009

synchromesh

If your search says completedWithin:"one week of saturday", then you can check the list mid-week without last week's tasks being included.

Similarly, completedWithin:"one month of end of month" will get all the tasks done this calendar month (give or take a day, perhaps - I can't test it because I haven't been using RTM for longer than a month!).

As a programmer, I'd vote for an additional, more complex query language with more functions and operators to allow more spreadsheet-like expressions for dates, ranges etc. But the current balance between complexity and power seems pretty nice to me, for what it does.

Posted at 1:30pm on June 30, 2009

shahsumit

Great idea. Thanks.
This is awesome and now I can send out my weekly reports lot faster and be more productive.

It would be great if I can publish smart lists. In other words send a link to my boss and he can see what I completed in the last week, meaning no work for me ;)

RTM, Is this possible?

Posted at 2:36pm on July 16, 2009

mikehayman

This is a great idea! Works perfect for me in regards to completed tasks.

Which brings me to my next idea/suggestion -- As a status report, I must also include a list of tasks that I've worked on that might not necessarily be complete -- say, for example, a task that may have multiple parts that might not get completed in the same week.

Is there any way to do that currently? Either by including tasks in the search that have notes updated within the last week, or by linking tasks together by dependency? (For the latter suggestion, i am talking about a main task<-subtask relationship).

The former would actually work better for my purposes -- the latter would have me creating (for example) up to 10 separate tasks for some things I do, when all I really need is a single task with notes under it. And that would kill RTM's usefulness for me. :(

Forgive me if I'm asking rudimentary questions -- I just found RTM a couple of days ago. (and, as you can tell by the little 'pro' icon, i already love it.)

Posted at 10:15am on July 17, 2009

Mike,
There's currently no way to search/display the modified date for tasks, but you can search/display the completed date for tasks, so if you were to add the separate tasks you'd have a status report at your disposal (with exactly the method nmj3e describes).

That is more or less derived from the idea (mentioned in GTD, among other methodologies) that you separate tasks into their individual components, so that a "project" is effectively a group of tasks. If you go that route, you could then collect a project's tasks via a smart list (that searches based on a tag, part of the tasks' names, etc.)

Hopefully it wouldn't kill the usefulness for you, but rather trade off the convenience of the number of tasks for the convenience of effortless status reports? :)

Hope this helps!

Posted at 1:38pm on July 20, 2009