Hi, Robert. I appreciate your frustration with waiting for a fix. In my experience the best way to provoke the developers into spending time on this function is to have a thorough discussion of proposed fixes, to be certain that we have fully thought through what we are saying, have identified the problem areas and presented a suggestion that will be beneficial to lots of users while being detrimental to very few if any, then posting the proposal on User Voice and getting lots of votes. (If it turns out that you and I are the only people who care about this, the developers would be foolish if they were to invest a lot of time enhancing it for us.)
This all takes some time and effort, but if you want to try it, I will join you. Let me start with this: I believe that you have proposed two different solutions. Solution one: Mute any location alarm if the immediate prior location alarm of the same type (arrival/departure) happened within the last xx minutes. Solution two: Mute any location alarm if the immediate prior location alarm of the same type (arrival/departure) was for the same location. Questions: Solution one: If I’ve created location-based lists for grocery store, hardware store, and drug store and I’m walking through a business district with all three stores, I will only be alerted to the first one I pass. Is that acceptable to you? Or did I misunderstand your proposal? Solution two: If I’m passing the hardware store and MLO alerts me to open tasks at that location, but I don’t have time to stop right now, I will just walk on by. If I understand your proposal, if I pass the hardware store again tomorrow, when I –do- have time to stop, MLO will not alert me if I haven’t gotten any other location alerts in the meantime. In fact if I only have one location set for alarms, I will only be alerted the first time I pass it, all subsequent alarms will be muted. Is that acceptable to you? Or did I misunderstand your proposal? Possible hybrid solution three, combining aspects of one and two: Mute any location alarm if the immediate prior location alarm of the same type (arrival/departure) was for the same location and happened within the last xx minutes. Downside to this one is in places where the phone is switching between cell towers and my established location is jumping back and forth between two spots. This happens regularly to me near my home. If I would happen to have a location alarm set for one of the two locations Google is picking, and a different location alarm for Google’s other location, the alerts will continue to sound incessantly. But maybe this is an unrealistic scenario. Any user of Nearby, please join in: What do you think? -Dwight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
