Hi James,
While setting up a back on an external drive, i noticed you could set the action to begin upon mounting of the drive or minutes afterwards.
A thought came to me perhaps when I connect this drive I may not wish to begin a backup, but rather restore for example a document.

Perhaps it might be an idea that when you mount this drive that a dialog pops up if you wish to begin an action... Yes or No.
The user that may not be so savvy in computers will be pleased to know that the back up is occurring because they pressed yes, or they can continue with their restore after pressing no.
Just a thought

Cheers
Daniel

Another addition that might be quite useful when it comes to scheduling.
Events such as "Once an action has finished" (Select the action from a list of your actions)
i.e. you have a capture action, and the merge will take place once the capture action is finished (you just specify after which action)...

I find that I often have to set up backup schemes for clients and find anything that makes their way of operation easier, then it is often worthwhile

Daniel,

Good suggestions. As for prompting, I too find myself in situations (mostly because I'm always installing new versions of QRecall for testing) where I don't want a bunch of scheduled actions to start running. Being able to stop them would be handy.

On my to do list is a feature request to put up a prompt/dialog before an action starts (this would be an option in the action's schedule), allowing you to start it immediately or cancel. If you don't respond to the dialog in 60 seconds, it would proceed automatically.

As for a "once action X has finished" event, how do you see this as materially different than scheduling the subsequent actions to run after the first? My original concept for a sequence of actions is that they would simply be scheduled to run in order (capture at 1:00, merge at 1:01, compact at 1:02). The scheduler automatically takes care of not running them concurrently.