Start Date from the Filter Pane

[Klaus]

Hello.

How exactly setting "Start Date" from the Filter Pane influences on the urgency of a task (in To-Do view)? The urgency automatically changes but I can't find any details for that in the MLO manual.

Built-in views ("Start date in next 7 days" and "Start date in next 30 days") uses it. But if you create a custom (advanced) filter rule using only StartDateTime then urgency of a task will not be changed.

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Hello Klaus,

"Start Date" from the Filter Pane affects Computed Score priority as if now is the date you've selected for filtering (in other cases today's date is used). The principle of Computed Score is described in the manual: https://www.mylifeorganized.net/downloads/files/MyLifeOrganized%20User%27s%20Guide.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A839%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C57%2C675%2C0%5D

[Klaus]

Alyona, you mean that in the manual's section "Date dependant weights / If Due Date and no Start Date" the first string is "Remaining = now - DueDate".
For the case when "Start Date from the Filter Pane" is not set then this string is equal to "Remaining = Today - DueDate".
But if I set ["Start Date from the Filter Pane" = Today - 1] then the string will be equal to "Remaining = Today - 1 - DueDate".

And similar method is applied to the section "Date dependant weights / If Start Date and no Due Date" where the first string is "Elapsed = now - StartDate".
For the case when "Start Date from the Filter Pane" is not set then this string is equal to "Elapsed = Today - StartDate".
But if I set ["Start Date from the Filter Pane" = Today + 5] then the string will be equal to "Elapsed = Today + 5 - StartDate".

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks!

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

It looks correct. In other words, the following rule is applied to the tasks with start/due date in future: the closer the start/due date to the date selected for filtering, the higher importance it has. And for the tasks with start/due date in past: the farther from the the start/due date to the date selected for filtering, the higher importance it has.