Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using a Smart List to find stale tasks

Finding your older tasks can be very helpful: “Oh, that’s easy to do now!” or “I can check this off because I did something different since then.”

mjbenoit asked a specific question about this: How do I find tasks that haven’t been updated, and may need to be worked on or completed, etc.? And the best part is that the resulting Smart List doesn’t even need to be managed: the tasks will appear and disappear automatically just by using the apps.

The following should give you something like that:

NOT addedWithin:“1 month of Today” AND NOT updatedWithin:“1 month of Today”

So the added date is before 1 month ago, and the updated date is before then too.

Thanks for inspiring this tip, mjbenoit! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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