User blog:Taldin/Striving Not to Be One of the "Inn Crowd"

(...or, 'how do you take a break without going in the inn?") As much as I'm a bit of a workaholic, there are times when I do, in fact, go on vacation.  And this'll be the first one I go on where I've been a member of Habits.   The base operating procedure is to put yourself in the Inn, so your dailies don't get unchecked at cron and you won't get penalized for not doing them.  But not everything that I have as a Daily is not doable on vacation.   I expect to Eat Healthy on vacation, and certainly I'm not going to go for a week without Drinking Water.   It's also a writer's retreat, so sure as heck I plan on Making my Daily Wordcount.   Ergo, the thing to do is to turn off any Dailies days that I won't have the opportunity to do while I'm out of town.   You do this by going to any Dailies you have and clicking on the pencil icon.   That opens up the Edit Task screen. Look for the part that says "Repeat". A true Daily has all of the days selected (darkened). Weekday ones only have Monday through Friday. When you click on the day of the week, it goes faded greyish. Darkened is a 'live' daily day. So if you have things you're not going to do at all that week  ("Productive Work", "Clear Your Desk Before Leaving", and "Fill out Toastmasters Schedule" are mine)? Shut 'em all off. It'll look a lot like this "weekly", where a task only has to be done one day a week. But keep the ones that you'll be doing live, so you're still practicing good habits on things that you can do while you're on vacation. Good thing I don't have an 'Eat Unhealthy' negative habit, because mmmmmm. Cheesecake. ;9 Back to my vacation!Taldin (talk) 05:57, July 16, 2014 (UTC)