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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 1, 2019 at 01:54 PM
Is there any chance that you had inadvertently entered a search term? I did this once, and had a panic, but when I cleared the search box all was restored to normalcy.
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I put a note into it this morning, and it seemed to show up (the first
>word) on my calendar view for today. I also entered a note after that.
>This afternoon, the first words showed up in the calendar view, but I
>could not retrieve note #1. After clicking several times on the left
>side and then the right side (note side), the first note was gone. It
>then vanished from the calendar view as well. Very distressing in that
>the note that disappeared had the contact information for a student I
>needed to call this afternoon.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 1, 2019 at 02:01 PM
So some further testing shows something I should have realized earlier: Changing due dates copies the task to a new calendar date, but any edits you make to one version are not reflected in any of the other iterations of the task. Clearly, these are not “clones” of each other, which reflect changes made in one across all versions.
It seems to me that the best way to deal with this is to select the preference “Only add date when scheduling in notes”, and edit your project-related tasks in the project note. That way you’ll always see the up-to-date version of the task.
Does that make sense?
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Ah, I see what you’re saying. I didn’t realize how different that one
>preference selection has on the action of the tasks. So, basically,
>deselecting “Only add date when scheduling in notes” makes the following
>behavior:
>
>When you write a task in a general (project) note, then set a date for
>it, Noteplan forwards a copy of the task onto the calendar note you
>chose with a wiki link back to the general note. You can now edit the
>task in the calendar note, including rescheduling it. BUT, the
>reschedule does not appear in the original notation in the general note.
>That is confusing. I bet that is not intentional. I’ll email Eduard and
>see what he says.
>
>Captain CowPie wrote:
>That is some of the confusion that I have gone through in using
>>NotePlan. I played around with the preferences and probably do not
>fully
>>understand them at this time.
>>
>>The preference for “Only add date when scheduling in notes” seems to do
>>what you say when checked. But I unchecked it because I found it
>>difficult to reschedule the tasks for each day. I had a number of tasks
>>under each “Project” that needed to be rescheduled. But I had to go
>back
>>to the Note that held the tasks and then try to find each of them to
>>reschedule. Without the ability to sort tasks by scheduled date, it
>>became difficult to find them quickly (I made a request for that
>>option).
>>
>>Is there an easier way that I might be missing?
>>
>>It seems we need someone to do a comprehensive set of videos on using
>>NotePlan ;)
Posted by Captain CowPie
Jun 1, 2019 at 04:59 PM
I agree Stephen. I got rid of the duplicates for each day and converted everything over using the “Only Add Dates When Scheduling” option. It was surprisingly easy to change scheduled dates. I just selected multiple tasks and hit
D twice and everything went back to regular tasks with no scheduled date.
The way I would like to see it work would be the ability to reschedule tasks from the calendar view when the original task exists in a note, and have it reflected back to the note. That would solve everything for me.
As for finding the scheduled tasks inside of the notes, when I “Archive Processed Tasks” and it places it under “Scheduled” it makes it much easier.
One nice thing I discovered is that when you have subheadings inside of a note, and then schedule a task from that note, it places the task under the subheading in the calendar view along with the name of the note on the right hand side. A very nice touch, and it allows me to break up tasks inside of a note.
I am still getting used to using the program, but still enjoying it.
Posted by Captain CowPie
Jun 1, 2019 at 05:04 PM
That was supposed to say:
“I just selected multiple tasks and hit Cmd-D twice and everything went back to regular tasks with no scheduled date.”
I placed the word Cmd in brackets in the original post and it must have taken it as some type of markup.
Captain CowPie wrote:
>I just selected
>multiple tasks and hit
D twice and everything went back to regular
>tasks with no scheduled date.
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Jun 1, 2019 at 07:38 PM
That may be the problem. We use Filemaker Pro at the college for making contracts, and when someone complains to me that the program isn’t saving records, they are usually filling out the form from the “Find” screen. If Noteplan has a manual, I would like to peruse it. I find the small screened overview videos to be difficult to learn from.
Captain CowPie wrote:
That was supposed to say:
>
>“I just selected multiple tasks and hit Cmd-D twice and everything went
>back to regular tasks with no scheduled date.”
>
>I placed the word Cmd in brackets in the original post and it must have
>taken it as some type of markup.
>
>Captain CowPie wrote:
>>I just selected
>>multiple tasks and hit
D twice and everything went back to regular
>>tasks with no scheduled date.