Often times, if you have a recurring task and miss it for whatever reason, then it should be dropped the instance the new recurrence appears.
For example, if I have a daily task of Brushing my Teeth, and I miss a day, the next day its not reasonable to do this twice.
A more likely real world example could be to mow the lawn once a week. If this task was missed, you cant mow the lawn twice a week later, but both recurrences right now do appear.
Toodledo handles this beautifully and worth having a look at, where you can select a special recurring task that will remove the previous instance of the task so only one will show up.
I agree, but I prefer it the other way around: If you already have an uncompleted instance a new one will not be generated. This is for two reasons:
- because you may have added special notes to the task and do not want those to be deleted
- the creation date (the spawn date) (would be very useful if this was visible) should indicate the spawn date of the FIRST uncompleted task in the series, not the last one, e.g. in your example, if you have skipped brushing your teeth for ten days you want to see this, not just see that you should do it today, which is what it would say even if you had not missed a single day.
