Fast switching of context in todo in android

[Giros]

In active actions view in order to show tasks of a certain context, I
need to press "Menu", then Filer by context, then uncheck the current
context and choose the context I want then press OK. That is a lot of
actions. In Windows Mobile the context is chosen in two taps. Am I
missing something? or do I need to add a feature request? When I press
the upper part at the active actions view I am presented to choose
view. It would be better to be presented to choose context

[Lisa Stroyan]

I think that on one hand, filtering is too heavy handed to just switch to viewing another context. It should be for when you want to only see a limited view for a long time. But on the other hand, maybe improving other features could help because my workaround is several taps too.

Do you know about tapping the view name at the top and going straight to the Active by Context view? You can reorder the views too.

You can't re-order your contexts in this list but you can force an order using prefixes in your context names. Note that not all special characters sort the same way as on the desktop . I can find a post I sent to the beta group, if you want to know those that do sort in the same order on both.

Lisa

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[Giros]

Yes, I know about "Active by context" view. It is also present on
Windows Mobile version. This creates tree-like structure and if for
example a context has a lot of tasks in it, after viewing the contents
of the context you will have to scroll up to the plus sign in order to
fold it and unfold another one. Yes, this is some kind of a
workaround, but still it is not as comfortable as in Windows Mobile
version.

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[Lisa Stroyan]

There is also Collapse All, if the context is large.

I will admit I might have a conflict of interest here. I would like to see the Filter dialog include the three Goal settings and the Starred criteria (I've added it to UserVoice), which is probably a different direction than shortcuts to filtering, but perhaps both could be done at once.

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[M H]

I'm glad I read this thread.  I didn't know I could get to a single context filtered list.  I started with the Active by context button, not the Active actions button.  I never would have looked for this feature there.

My wish would be that there would be a button on the home screen that would open up the contexts pick list just like you get from Active Actions/Menu/Filter by Context.  If the app would start with the context choice menu instead of the Active Actions filter, the action would only have to deal with the entries that have the applicable context.  Not a large button press reduction, but it would be a significant CPU load reduction.

[Giros]

Should I add a feature request in UserVoice, what do you think?

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[Lisa Stroyan]

You might first want to have an idea of how you want it to work and see what people think...I like having the views as the choices when I tap on the view name, because I go between them much more frequently than I filter in on a particular context.  it could be an option, but since views and contexts are pretty different, that seems a stretch. I'd rather have both...

What do you think about a long-hold option on a context name in the Active by Context view, which could bring up a radio selection  (select one and choice is immediately applied) of contexts (and clicking one would filter to that context)...then they could do the same thing in the Goals view...and then the full filter dialog from the menu could have both (goals, contexts) as options for more precise filtering.

Lisa

[M H]

I like the long hold idea. The only change I would suggest, is not
radio buttons but rather check boxes. There are instances where I
would want to filter different context combinations. Until we have
views syncing, we need to give our manual filtering all the power we
can.

[Lisa Stroyan]

I thought the idea was to have less clicks, and leave the powerful filtering to the filter dialog? Perhaps there could be a button on the bottom that would bring up the filtering dialog?

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[M H]

I agree again. Thanks for keeping the speed component in there.

[Giros]

I think Lisa is absolutely right. Radio buttons is less clicks than checkboxes. And I personally would prefer a tap than long tap, because switching contexts is most often actions. It would be best if use could configure this.

[Lisa Stroyan]

Tap opens and closes the context, which feels pretty intuitive to me....

Would someone be willing to add a suggestion to UserVoice? I'm slammed this week.

Lisa

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Giros <nve...@googlemail.com> wrote:

I think Lisa is absolutely right. Radio buttons is less clicks than checkboxes. And I personally would prefer a tap than long tap, because switching contexts is most often actions. It would be best if use could configure this.

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