Hi Dwight,
OK I think I 90% understand that. The problem is that I have about 8 contexts other than @Errands. Am I really supposed to create an evening version of each of them?! Following advice from elsewhere, I am now using Context to control the task's "executionable Status" too (e.g. SomedayMaybe, Soon, DoASAP, AsaBonus etc), as well as things like MajorProject, and LowEnergy / FreshMind etc So I would need an evening version of each them too?(!) I can see that it would work but it would be somewhat messy, no? And even worse would be if I decided to change what time of day I wanted to execute once the task was already in the system. e.g. "I have no time during the day to do this Work item, I'll do it this evening instead". Then maybe I change my mind and on the next day no, I no longer want to work on this during the evenings. etc [ASIDE: This is part of why I was calling for additional user-definable fields. Having physically separate fields for what in truth really are different types of data is vastly more powerful and avoids these kinds of workarounds...!] J On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 6:05:57 PM UTC, Dwight wrote: > > What you are trying to do is simple and easy but the way that you are > trying to do it is very complex. If a task has multiple contexts and any > one of them is open the task is considered active. So if you have a > context, errands, that's always open and a different context, eveningsOnly, > that's open in the evening, and you put them both on a task, then that task > will always be active, because there is at least one context (errands) > that's open. If you really wanted to do that you would have to build an > advanced filter that passed is the context Errands was present, and either > (eveningsOnly was absent OR eveningsOnly was present when considering > context open/closed status) - that's complex and awkward. > > Try this instead: > > Create two contexts: Errands and EveningErrands > > Errands is a normal context, always open, no special settings. > > EveningErrands is open from 6pm to midnight (or other schedule of your > choice), and is otherwise normal. > > ErrandsAll is always open, and on the Properties tab has a check in the > box for "hide this context in the task properties context selection. > > Create a view that filters for context Errands or EveningErrands together > with any other filters you want. This view will show you all tasks from > Errands or EveningErrands when those contexts are open. For Errands that's > always. For EveningErrands that's evening. > > On January 24, 2018 09:49:56 "John . Smith" <shi...@gmail.com> > <javascript:> wrote: > >> Hi Emerald >> >> Sorry I still don't quite understand Context "opening hours". >> Are we saying that the Context filter will only work in the evenings? >> >> Is there any way to using "opening hours" within an Advanced Filter so as >> to only show those tasks which have my "@EveningsOnly" context when the >> time is after (say) 6PM? >> >> e.g. How would I write an Advanced Filter to show tasks all my tasks that >> are "@Errands" during the evenings, but to *only *show those which do >> not have"@EveningsOnly" during the day? >> >> J >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 6:09:31 PM UTC, Michael Emerald wrote: >>> >>> Hi John. >>> >>> >>> >>> My answer will either be reasonable to you, or else insufficient for >>> you, but here’s how I’d implement it. Apologies if you already know this. >>> >>> >>> >>> I’d set up a context with hours, called @Evenings, with hours open from >>> 18:00 on. >>> >>> >>> >>> If I needed to see what was upcoming but not yet active, I’d play with a >>> couple of things.. Maybe a separate view that has “show closed contexts” >>> on, grouped by context so that I can glance at it to see what’s upcoming in >>> the evening, all the while my primary view has don’t show closed contexts, >>> hence showing only active tasks. >>> >>> >>> >>> Not what you’re looking for, and certainly not relating to timed flags, >>> granted. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeo...@googlegroups.com] >>> *On Behalf Of *John . Smith >>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 17, 2018 11:16 >>> *To:* MyLifeOrganized >>> *Subject:* [MLO] Re: How can I set a flag called ("~Evenings") to only >>> that show that task after 18:00 in the evening. >>> >>> >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> >>> I am still trying to set up tasks that are only shown after 18:00 in the >>> evening. >>> >>> >>> >>> Did "CurrentDateTime" ever get implemented? >>> >>> I would like to have time-of-day can be built into my Advanced Filters >>> so that I can grey out tasks which are set for "~EveningsOnly", but have >>> them go black in the evenings. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> J >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 11:05:56 PM UTC, Dwight wrote: >>> >>> You can get close. You essentially want a filter that says >>> ((flag is off) OR ((flag is on) AND (Now isGreaterThan Today+0.75))) >>> >>> note that Today is the current date and time at Midnight, 0.75 = 18:00 >>> because it's 18/24, and you dont have to test if the current time is later >>> than today at 23:59 because it never is >>> The problem is that the last phrase of this filter uses NOW before the >>> operator isGreaterThan and you can only use field names there. You need a >>> field name of CurrentDateTime and this would be feasible. I would be in >>> favor of a request to implement CurrentDateTime, it would make a lot of >>> stuff possible. >>> >>> Meanwhile, back to reality, do what Andrei says. >>> >>> >>> On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 8:58:36 AM UTC-5, John . Smith wrote: >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> >>> >>> How can I create an Advanced filter to hide any tasks that have a flag >>> is set (e.g. called "~Evenings"), except for if the time of day is 18:00 or >>> greater? >>> >>> >>> >>> i.e. To show tasks that have a flag called "~Evenings" only between >>> 18:00 and 23:59. >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> >>> >>> J >>> >>> -- >>> 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 mylifeorganiz...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to mylifeo...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized >>> <https://groups.google..com/group/mylifeorganized>. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google..com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/2b3608e3-3255-4652-bcf0-7065ef8fc56b%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/2b3608e3-3255-4652-bcf0-7065ef8fc56b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> 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 mylifeorganiz...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to mylifeo...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/1f02553c-2e0e-423d-a0ed-b372d684c389%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/1f02553c-2e0e-423d-a0ed-b372d684c389%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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