My work around for no start date field
davidscottweaver says:
Hey gang, the one thing I was really missing coming from Toodledo was a start date field. I really mostly used it for bills and gifts though, so I thought with all the power of the search operators something surely could be done. Here's what I came up with. I decided to have a bills tag and a gifts tag, and put in the smartlist to show bills 2 weeks ahead and gifts 3 weeks out (just my personal lead time preferences). Here's the code behind my "@Home" list:
(tag:home OR tag:ipod OR tag:computer OR tag:calls) AND (due:Today OR due:Never) OR (tag:bills AND dueWithin:"2 weeks of today") OR (tag:gifts AND dueWithin:"3 weeks of today")
Now, whenever I tag something as a bill or gift, I get 2 or 3 weeks of lead time automatically, respectively. To me this is the the cleanest way of getting a heads up. Now I can have the Birthday tasks due on the actual Birthday and the bill dates due on the actual bill due date. Here's something else, I didn't want my Christmas list showing up 25 items all at once 3 weeks before the 25th, so I don't tags those "gifts". I just have a task called "Finish Christmas shopping" tagged as gifts and then all the people I need to shop for is in a list called "Xmas" that I just look at manually. So the gifts tag is for all other gifts (birthday, Mothers day, anniversaries, etc.)
Hope this helps someone as much as it does me!
P.S. I love RTM!!!
(tag:home OR tag:ipod OR tag:computer OR tag:calls) AND (due:Today OR due:Never) OR (tag:bills AND dueWithin:"2 weeks of today") OR (tag:gifts AND dueWithin:"3 weeks of today")
Now, whenever I tag something as a bill or gift, I get 2 or 3 weeks of lead time automatically, respectively. To me this is the the cleanest way of getting a heads up. Now I can have the Birthday tasks due on the actual Birthday and the bill dates due on the actual bill due date. Here's something else, I didn't want my Christmas list showing up 25 items all at once 3 weeks before the 25th, so I don't tags those "gifts". I just have a task called "Finish Christmas shopping" tagged as gifts and then all the people I need to shop for is in a list called "Xmas" that I just look at manually. So the gifts tag is for all other gifts (birthday, Mothers day, anniversaries, etc.)
Hope this helps someone as much as it does me!
P.S. I love RTM!!!
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