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Recurring tasks
iCal can manage tasks, but they are not recurrent. Example: when you have to pay your cell phone's bill every 5th working day. This is not the same of creating a calendar entry. Outlook and Palm Desktop have it since long ago.
Also, iPhones do not sync tasks with iCal.
Include recurring tasks in iCal and sync them to iPhone.
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Discussion (5 comments)
I sure hope no one has to pay their cell phone bill once a week!! :P
iCal has really bad support for tasks all around... and the iPhone / iPod touch doesn't support them at all. For that reason alone, I don't bother... which is too bad. I don't understand why they never supported that.
Unfortunately I can't use ANY of Apple's included iApps because they are all crippled like this in some way. It's a real shame that people have to still use Entourage or Outlook for basic things like scheduling. Many other software packages perfected this simple task twenty years ago. Apple's 'It just works' campaign is so completely true - it JUST works.. only just enough to sell more computers, but not enough to be very useful in the real world.
I firmly agree to you fbcrmn, ebaur and MicrowaveDave: Thunderbird for instance does support timing for tasks but it is no real alternative (yet, I hope). And Apple delivers a complete package of PIM and multimedia applications making the only latter their unique selling point since Microsoft also has Windows Mail (Outlook Express for those who still remember) and AddressBook and cannot really compete with the multimedia live services (yet, I think) like MovieMaker for example. So obviously, Microsoft seems to neglect Windows PIM apps in favor of selling their Outlook and Apple seems to see no reason to get into the competiton on their very own platform, not caring about all those user who do not (want to) pay extra money for Entourage or other PIM software. This makes me really upset because PIM is one of the central software features a modern OS should nativley provide so that anybody can start to benefit from the tremendous power of such helpful applications!
gordoreg wrote on October 24, 2008, 12:58am
Task is something without a date to do. If you have a date to do it it`s an event!
Just add the task as a full day event.