Text Tag v Context

[chrisleeuk]

Does anyone know what the intended purpose of the new text tag feature is in MLO 5?

The help section mentions it, but doesn't really explain the benefit of the text tag over regular contexts?

From what I can see it acts very similar to context's, except that you can only pick one text tag.

Obviously you can filter on it, but I can't really see how that would be any more beneficial than just adding a context?

I'm just wondering what the use cases are, in case I can get some use out of it.

[Stéph]

Similar to flags, really, except that you can't assign an icon to a text tag and you can create new text tags on-the-fly. It means you now have three different ways of tagging items (along with hierarchy, dates, effort, importance, urgency), all of which you can use for whatever you want. Text tags are meant to be more temporary and immediate.

Personally, I try to limit how many different types of metadata I tag items with, because they mean I spend more time managing my task list and, therefore, less time using it.

Stéphane

[robisme (Olivier R)]

I tend to use them in order to build specific views. Or often, I set a text tag to mean "this task is that kind of stuff". Then I group tasks by text tag to identify them.

Ti be specifi, I'm a teacher. I have my entire program organized by subjects, but sometimes I need to group them in another way : which taks belong to a book? which task is a template I re-use every year, while subtasks are to be cleared (create a flat view grouped by text tag, erase everything but the template.

Also, I use them to quickly assign  temporary context I may want to use, specificly on the mobile app (task relatives to a specific event, journey, people, whatever I want to display conveniently).

[Richard Emes]

I use text tags to track how many times I've followed up with someone. If I've sent them one reminder I use a '1' text tag. If I've sent two reminders I use a '2' tag.
I then have two automatic formatting rules which assign a '1' or '2' icon next to the task depending on the text tag.
I can then easily see the tasks with icons against them and can then call the individual once the icon is a '2' ie they've had 2 reminders!

Hope that's useful

Richard

[westpo...@yahoo.com]

I use it to group how certain tasks should be treated, as opposed to when/where they should be treated.  Like, if I want to do something later, I’ll just change the text tag rather than fumble with date/time.

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[lewy]

For me I use text tag to create 52 set of week numbers for planning purpose, so some tasks are assigned with the week number, text tag is grouped/filtered in a custom View set up.

Regards,

LEW

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

This discussion encouraged us to create this blog post: https://blog.mylifeorganized.net/2020/04/what-is-use-of-tags.html
Thanks to everyone for sharing your use cases!