Agreed, this is a good feature and can serve multiple purposes. To answer your immediate question - if you use contexts that segregate home/personal stuff from work then on desktop you could try going to (or creating/copying) a view that shows your personal/at home contexts and at the bottom of the contexts list, check "include closed". This will show the even in their closed times.
Longer term, the simplest (and most desired to me) solution is a simple checkbox near/at the top of the view to include and/or invert the closed contexts. I see something like this: First tick = check mark = includes closed contexts. Next tick = other color check = inverts open/closed contexts. Tick again = empty check box = goes back to normal behavior (typical open/closed contexts.) This is an essential feature imo to the mobile, even more than the desktop (but needed on both, no doubts.) When I was a Life Balance user on the Palm (a program very similar to MLO that pales in technical prowess but could *definitely *teach MLO a few things about UI) - there was a tick box to include closed contexts near the top of the 'to do' view. This opened up contexts open/closed times to be so much more useful as in addition to use case like you describe, one could designate certain contexts that were typically closed during work the day (for instance personal errands) but then still quickly check them when wanted by toggling the check box at the top of UI (for example if your were out running a business errand or unexpectedly find yourself in a CVS or similar during lunch/work hours.) Automating the check box to make a "holiday button" wouldn't be difficult once it's done. Just need a settings page for a timer and logic to set it (to inverse for example) and then set it back after timer (8 hours for example.) Heck you could even use AHK/AutoIt to handle the automation if the box exists (or Automator on Mac or e.g. Tasker/Llama on Android) Today I can sort of mimic this behavior on mobile but the reality is the checkbox to include closed contexts is buried in settings and requires like 3 or 4 clicks (including moving off my current screen and train of thoughts) to get to and toggle it, then navigate back to my view and then repeat all that movement again to revert back. In truth it makes it too much effort and so not doable/usable. It could be pretty easily remedied by just putting the box on the 'front' of the UI though. On Monday, May 26, 2014 9:51:54 AM UTC-4, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Hi, everyone. Today is a holiday in the US and I should be doing yard > work. But my @Yardwork context is closed and my @Work context is open and > my TODAY view is full of stuff about getting the work week off to a good > start. I went in to the "manage contexts" window and set @Yardwork to > always open and @Work to always closed, but this totally wiped out the > schedule that I had created for each of these contexts - tonight I will > have to re-establish all of the days and hours that I want each of these > contexts to be open. > > What I would really like would be a command that I could use today to say > "Treat this Monday like it was a Sunday" and have all of my open and closed > contexts from Sunday in effect. I probably would have also asked for this > Sunday to be treated as a Saturday. > > Second choice, probably a lot less coding, would be to have buttons on the > "hours" tab in Manage Contexts to say Override: Open context and Override: > Close context, as well as End Override. > > Do any of you share this issue and how do you deal with it? > -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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/1217ffdc-ff53-4d21-8865-5054a6564aba%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
