OK - as you were - I think I've cracked it !
So I've abandoned "sub rules" (I always get confused by them) and have
added an additional rule which defaulted in as an "AND". I then edited the
first rule to end with "OR" instead of "AND".
My second rule now says:
"CreatedDateTime after now-0.0002"
Which seems to buy me a crucial minute or so which is enough for me. What's
slightly unnerving is that "now" is only re-valuated when you edit
something!
Nice one - many thanks
J
On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 15:59:12 UTC+1, J Smith wrote:
>
> Dwight
>
> Sounds ingenious - love it! However I'm having to admit defeat on how to
> implement this.
>
> My progress so far:
> 1. I have created an Advanced Rule:
> "Context contains .Someday "
>
> 2. I clicked "Add sub-rule" and created:
> "ModifiedDateTime after now-0.002"
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Cheers
>
> J
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 13:48:27 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote:
>>
>> Here's a trick for solving your "one slight problem ". I didn't
>> originate this, I learned it on the forum, but I forget who posted it.
>>
>> For your someday view, write a filter that says:
>> Context contains someday or modifiedDateTime is greater than now minus
>> 0.002. Then, whenever you add or modify a task it will stick to the
>> someday list for almost 3 minutes to give you time to finish editing it.
>> After 3 minutes if you have not added a someday context, it will drop off.
>>
>> Slight new problem: if your time zone lies to the west of GMT and to the
>> east of the date line, tasks added via TaskByEmail will linger in the new
>> someday list for a number of hours equal to how many time zones you are
>> west of GMT (adjusted for DST).
>>
>> On August 2, 2016 6:54:49 AM J Smith <ship...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> I'm loving the simplicity of this. (Aside: Why didn't I think of that?!)
>>>
>>> So to get clear, in order to get your list of Active stuff, I guess you
>>> create a tab ('work area') that contains the Advanced filter with something
>>> like:
>>> "Context does not contain .Someday", yes?
>>>
>>> OK so, if I'm showing the hierarchy and I've got a complex project (i.e.
>>> parent) that I have flagged with the context of ".Someday", but which still
>>> has even one task that is not flagged with ".Someday" then the project it
>>> will still appear on that view. I guess I can live with that. (I might use
>>> some clever formatting rules to show items that are .Someday formatted)
>>>
>>> And then in order to create your list of Someday/maybe stuff, I guess
>>> you have another tab ('work area') with an Advanced filter with:
>>> "Context DOES contain .Someday", yes?
>>>
>>> One slight problem is that now when you are working in the "Someday"
>>> (only) view and you want to add something to another project (or task) the
>>> risk is that it will disappear from view immediately after you enter the
>>> name. One way around this seems to be set up a special hotkey for the
>>> purpose (e.g. say Alt/Shift/S) and to use it while you are still editing
>>> the name of the item.
>>> OR I guess you could add it as a child (using Alt/Insert), which will
>>> therefore inherit the .Someday tag from the current parent and then just
>>> out-dent it using Shift/Alt/Left-Arrow.
>>>
>>> This sounds extremely promising - thanks!
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 08:30:05 UTC+1, Nick Clark wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I just use a context @Someday to filter tasks out. I remove the context
>>>> to make something "Active".
>>>
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