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Recurring tasks

Submitted by fbcrmn on October 24, 2008 to Usability

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 (4 comments)

gordoreg wrote on October 24, 2008, 2:58am

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.

polycat33 wrote on October 24, 2008, 5:38am

I sure hope no one has to pay their cell phone bill once a week!! :P

ebaur wrote on October 24, 2008, 10:01pm

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.

MicrowaveDave wrote on November 5, 2008, 1:51am

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.

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