Hide Only Subtasks in Todo

[jimja...@gmail.com]

I would like a way to mark a task which hides all Subtasks from Todo branches, but keeps the tasks itself available for Todo. This way I could easily add Subtasks for smaller components of tasks, without having to individually mark them with Hide, and still see the main tasks as an overview for task tracking.

Or is there already a way to easily accomplish this?

[Stéph]

The only advanced filter term which hides a subtask based on something to do with its parent task is the "ParentName" filter. So, the only way I can think of doing this is to select a character or phrase to put in the parent name (eg "{hidesubtasks}"), then setting up an advanced filter in your ToDo view with the logic "ParentName contains {hidesubtasks}"

You don't need a long phrase like {hidesubtasks}. you could assign a single character in the task name which means you want to hide its subtasks - maybe something unusual like ¬ (which is shift and the key just above the tab, on my keyboard)?

Hope that helps.

Stéphane

[Dwight]

I thought I had posted this but I don't see it, apologies if you get duplicates.

Like most things in MLO there are many different ways to do this and the "best" one depends on how you personally manage your tasks. My solution would be to make your "main tasks" into projects. You could then have an overview based on the "projects" view which would hide everything but the main tasks. Added bonus" the projects would each show a progress bar which would let you know at a glance, without opening the list of subtasks, how far along the work had gotten on each of the main tasks.