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Re: How to display count of repeating events

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In article <20160928203847906-garyw1@hotmailcom>, Gary
<gary_w1@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 2016-09-28 09:32:25 +0000, Gary said:
> > 
> > It is important to remember to take 30 pills, one a day, starting 
> > October 1.  I want to create a daily repeating event in my Mac calendar 
> > that says something like Pill 1, Pill 2, ... up to Pill 30.  Is there 
> > some way to accomplish this in either MacOS or in IOS?
> > 
> > It's easy enough to create annual birthdays and show age, but it 
> > surprises me there isn't a straightforward way to do this with other 
> > than annual events.
> > 
> > Any suggestions (other than creating 30 events)?
> 
> -- Thanks for all the good ideas, especially the AppleScript.
> Just to comment to those who said "why do you really need what you are 
> asking for?", the answer is that I don't really need it.  I just wanted it, 
> and I was surprised that there didn't seem to be a way to do it.  I could 
> imagine that, some day for some unanticipated reason, I might want 
> something much more important to me to have sequential numbers on the
> successive occurrences of a repeating event.  I wondered why Apple didn't 
> provide it.

Probably because nobody / almost nobody would ever use it. There's
little point in tacking in features that only two people on the planet
would use (once) ... that's what Adobe and Microsloth do, and there
apps are more and more bloated and buggy with every release.

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How to display count of repeating events Gary <gary_w1@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-28 05:32 -0400
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-28 14:43 +0000
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-28 16:33 +0000
      Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:58 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:57 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 11:55 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 12:46 -0700
      Re: How to display count of repeating events android <here@there.was> - 2016-09-28 22:06 +0200
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:59 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-09-29 08:23 +1200
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:56 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:55 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-09-28 18:40 -0400
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 17:02 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Gary <gary_w1@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-28 20:38 -0400
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-09-29 13:59 +1200
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 19:24 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 19:57 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-29 04:30 +0000
      Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 21:44 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-09-29 08:19 -0400
      Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-29 09:41 -0700
        Re: How to display count of repeating events android <here@there.was> - 2016-09-29 20:38 +0200
          Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-29 11:57 -0700
            Re: How to display count of repeating events android <here@there.was> - 2016-09-30 03:11 +0200
              Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-29 18:14 -0700

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