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A cautionary note to those who may have used the “armada of parallel repeats” (AoPR) technique: using the new feature will give you less visibility to upcoming events in the Forecast view, because you’ll only see a single future event.  On Sunday, with a event repeating each weekday, the Forecast view will only show you that event on Monday, but not Tuesday-Friday, whereas with the AoPR approach, you’ll see the event for each weekday. 

Also, don’t complete one of these repeating actions on the iPhone/iPod until you’ve got 1.14 on board!  It will quietly turn into a regular weekly repeat on that day only.  Might be a good idea to mark any such repeating actions with a prefix to the name to remind you not to do so.

To answer to the titled question, since Saturday and Sunday are “weekend” days, they should be placed both at the end of the week, no?

A little story:

All this starts because here, in Quebec (and some other places), where I live, most people manage their calendars this way, i.e. MTWTFSS. This week structure preference is widely used. Sure, SMTWTFS is also widely used and in a way or another, everyone’s system is not discussable. That’s not the point.

No, here’s the point, in iCal on a Mac, you can choose which day will be your first day of your week view. This is a particularity of OS X because on iOS, this preference doesn’t exist. Since those two views doesn’t reflect each other, it can create a lot of mistakes when you have to manage your week in both ways from both Systems. For me as a french speaking person from Quebec, it is particularly a tough one, e.g. say you have a one only date proposition this Saturday. You look in your iPhone and see that there’s already a diner at your parent’s (but that dinner is, in reality, Friday because you looked the penultimate day of the week and thought it was Saturday). So you refuse this date and miss the chance of your life to meet this very attractive person! Mmmm. This is a burlesque example, but this situation frequently arrive with jobs and this is not cool at all.

In fact, there’s a workaround in iOS by choosing another country (U.K. for example) in format Preferences. But then, you’ll also change your iCal data display language (if you’re not a english speaking person), the phone number format, the currency format, etc. in your iPhone or iPad. Can’t work like this ether.

I wrote dozens of emails to Apple to try to explain this nonsense, never have an answer (‘wasn’t expecting one neither), and never saw a fix came in all those iOS versions.

The end.

So, all this to ask you my question : since this is very frustrating and till waiting for Apple to do something about this, I wonder if developers, as the OmniGroup Team, can offer to chose by which day the user would like the week to start? Dealing with OmniFocus with this limitation gives headaches sometimes.

Anyways, this is my 2¢ (USD cents !!), thanks for reading.

Bonjour
Dommage que les explications ne soient pas en français, car peut être que je l’aurais acheté
Michel

Bash,

it’s just as Derek said.  If you want something that repeats on M,T,W,Th,F, you make a set of 5 repeating actions, repeating weekly, one on M, one on T, one on W, one on Th, one on F, and you put a start date on each one so it doesn’t appear until that day.  It can be used for other things than weekend/weekday repeats.  If you wanted to do something to your yard every month during the summer, you could set it up with a handful of actions which repeated yearly, one on the first day of each of the summer months, for example.