I think I’ve found the cause. It appears that the culprit is the start date, when I was looking for the due date all along. While I am not aware that you can enter or display start dates from within the phone, the start dates exist in the Outlook entries in the PC and must have got sync’ed over to the phone.

It appears that the logic for showing the task in any day’s view in the Calendar is:
1. If the task is past due or due today, then show in today’s Calendar only.
2. If the task has a start date but not yet due, then show in all days from the later of (today or start date) until the due date.
3. If the task has no start date and not yet due, then show in due date only.

Now that I think I understand it, I can tweak the start date fields to show how far in advance I want the task to show up in the Calendar. Quite a useful device really. :)

Now Nokia will just have to fix the Active Standby screen as described in this post. ;)

The funny thing is that the number of to-do entries vary from one day to the next, with some future to-do’s only appearing on the due date, but others appearing on all days up to the due date. It is very confusing, and I can’t figure out a 100% consistent pattern either.

Have you, Nick, or others found this an issue too?

It will be much more helpful to show x overdue items, y due today items and z due in next (say) week.

Cool name!!! After ready your comments i was wondering do you know where i could download an alternative standby plug in for my n95?

Cheers Nick.