Re: [MLO] Closed Contexts

[Eberhard]

Hi Rachel,

 

if you go to the filter menu (which in my case is left of the outline) there's a little checkbox at the end of the context selector where you can activate or deactivate "include closed" ... try it out! If deactivated it should do what you're looking for.

 

Alternatively simply add a new view and set the advanced filtering to "context" "contains (consider open/closed)" and add the requested context. Like for instance

 

"context" "contains (consider open/closed)" "Paris"

 

That should work as well and should only give you tasks currently being active for "Paris".

 

Let me know, in case that won't work.

 

Eberhard

 

 

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Rachel A <rachel.rut...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been using MLO for a while and I have found it very helpful. Up until now I have not really used any context filtering. I am currently doing some work that involves moving between cities. I thought if I classified tasks that could only be done in a specific city and closed the contexts they would be removed from my to-do list but it seems like only tasks that do not have any other contexts are removed. For example if the task has the contexts 'phone call' and 'city A' it stays on the list even if city A is closed. Also, I made some sub-contexts which are city specific and made them included in the city contexts and tasks in those sub-contexts are also staying in the to-do list. For example if I had a task I need to do with Mary, a person in city A, I set the context as '#Mary' and then included the context #Mary in City A but when I close city A tasks with the context #Mary are staying on the list.

Maybe I'm going about this wrong. Is there another way to exclude tasks that can't be done where I am? All I can think of now is to make all the tasks that are city specific just have the one context of that city name but then I am losing the benefits of having more specific contexts for those activities while I'm in that city.

I would really appreciate any advice on this issue.

Thanks,
Rachel

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[Dwight]

Hi, Rachel.
I have some experience with a similar situation, and I found "closed context" not to be a very effective way of handling it. Any time I traveled eary or late i would end up jiggering the times. Also, it was hard to check, while traveling, whether I finished everything in the place I was leaving or plan what to do when I arrived.

I was going to recommend making two to-do lists, a "London to-do" that includes everything *but* tasks in Paris and a "Paris to-do" that includes everything but tasks in London. But I see that you working with excluded contexts so you probably have that figured out.

You might like to use the "context text" advanced filter. "Context text does not contain 'Paris' " will exclude @Paris but also #Mary@Paris.

One last suggestion. On Android (and maybe other mobile platforms) you can define a location for a context. A 'nearby' view shows tasks near where you are, and a map view shows a pin in the map where a context lives. Clicking the pin shows active tasks at that location. You could set a location like 'within a 50km radius of tge Eiffel Tower' - but not on Windows.
-Dwight

Rachel A <rachel.rut...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you Eberhard, I had already made sure that the "include context" box was unchecked but that still left items with a second context on the list. Setting up an advanced filter with Context Does Not Contain "Paris" succesfully removed all items which have the city as their context.

It does still leave tasks which have a context that is a subcontext of the city. Like in my example if the context is set as "Mary," who is in Paris, items with that context stay on the list. To get around this I can manually make sure I enter the city as as the context in addition to the context "Mary" but do you know if there is a way for it to filter out items with contexts that are included in the context being filtered out? In the advanced filtering menu, I could see options for filtering things based on their top level folder, parent or project but not top level context.