Yeah, I made the same mistake.
The way quick add works is.
You can specificy a project level item:
my project
and a task level item (using a period)
.mytask
and then everything else is tags or text so it pays to have a well
understood tagging methodology. There are no order dependencies on quick
add entries. so
Lets say you have a project defined in your wiki - 'my project'
and a context defined - 'Home'
and a contact defined - 'My Best Buddy'
.my other task|my project|Home|My Best Buddy|W or
.my other task|Home|my project|W|My Best Buddy etc.. (its all the same as
order doesnt matter after the task)
in quick add will create a new task, in my project under Home context
delegated to My Best Buddy
If however you did it like this:
.my other task|My Project|at home|some other guy|W
Assuming that My Project is not a project or a context or a contact (same
for other tags) you will end up with a item which is tagged with all the
items specified in waiting status.
Make sense?
Again - quick add kicks ass but you have to know your tags. If I had a
better memory I could make much better use of it.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:18 AM, ike9898 <ike9...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, good explanation. However, I think that the examples built into
> MonkeyGTD should be edited. I'm sure others get confused on the same
> point - the '@' looks like part of the syntax.
> Anyway, thanks for the help.
>
> On Aug 17, 10:39 am, Matt Devlin <mdevlin1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The @ in the example refers to a context that is literally '@Home' You
> may
> > not have your contexts set up that way. If your context is 'Home' then
> > just use Home in your quick add. Otherwise it will just get added as a
> tag
> > '@Home' and will not register as a context. Quick add is great, but you
> > need to know your tags/contexts/contacts etc to fully leverage it. I
> often
> > end up fat fingering or remembering tags incorrectly and end up with a
> lot
> > of stuff tagged incorrectly.
> >
> > Make sense?
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM, ike9898 <ike9...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Okay, duh. I found it ('About quick add' linked from within the quick
> > > add box), but I still have a question...
> >
> > > when I quick add:
> > > .Mow lawn|@Home
> >
> > > The action is created, but with no context (should be Home). Any
> > > hints?
> >
> > > On Aug 17, 9:26 am, ike9898 <ike9...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > Can someone point me to an explanation of how to use quick add? I
> > > > thought I had found something like that once, but I can't find it
> > > > now.
> >
>
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