Marking a series as complete, then having it renewed tomorrow

I’m not sure how to say this, but I would like to set up a recurring task (for example for my daily singing practice) that includes 10 different things I do almost every day. And I want to indicate the set of tasks is complete for each day, but I want to preserve a few tasks that, for example, I did NOT complete yesterday.

As of now it seems to make a parent task as complete I am required to mark all its child tasks as complete. Is there a way I can mark parent complete while some of its subtasks as INcomplete?

Thanks for any suggestions.

O.

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usually i use shift-space (instead of space to complete the task) for these cases. It allows me to disable the incomplete tasks while completing the parents.

Not sure how it interacts with the recurrig stuff though…

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Hi.

Get a task manager. Todoist is a pretty good one and it’s what I use to manage tasks (in exactly the way you describe.

AFAIK Checkvist is a list manager and that’s the way I use it.

Beware of Zawinski’s Law!!!

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Thanks to both of you for your suggestions.

O.

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The only way to overcome this is to mark a subtask as irrelevant with shift+space, as @nocaoper suggested.

You can avoid completion of the parent when all children are closed (with an option in settings), but this is opposite to what you’re looking for. Still, worth mentioning probably.

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Hhihihihi, this loooks fun. I’m exactly feeling this with checkvist. It’s got tons of functionallity but tons of them++. Anyways, still fast :see_no_evil_monkey: can’t believe what’s the magic.

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As always, it depends on what you want the system (Checkvist) to do for you. If you only want to mark the parent as done, you can use a custom tag for that, e.g. #done. Checkvist won’t know its meaning, but you’ll know when you see it. That might be enough - or not. I use it occasionally, and the tag is visualized using custom CSS as follows:

Or the other way around, you could mark the things you didn’t do with a tag. In my lists, it would look like:

Then you could use Checkvist’s “complete”, and still know what you didn’t do.

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