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says:IMO, I think that would be helpful.
Posted at 12:22am on November 12, 2007
How would you sort by tags? Considering you could have 10 tags, which one would it sort by and how useful would that really be?
Posted at 1:16am on November 12, 2007
says:I think I suggested this a long time back, but how about showing the tags directly in the list? Something like the way gmail displays labels from the list view. In my opinion, the hover properties thing is flashy but not so functional. I'd rather have more information available on my tasks all the time and not just when I have selected a single task.
Posted at 3:09am on November 12, 2007
says:Perhaps you could specify the tags that mattered for the sort? So that of my 300 tags, I only cared about my six context tags?
Much more on sorting over here: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3145/#12497
Posted at 8:08pm on November 12, 2007
says:Erik, Gmail's labels are a great model for how tags could be exposed within the list - this would be very helpful in smart lists where the context of a task may be lost.
Posted at 8:09pm on November 12, 2007
says:I agree - I would love it. I would set my next actions smartlist to sort by tag. I would probably keep the rest of my lists sorted by task name and/or priority.
Posted at 4:42pm on January 10, 2008
Sort by tags would be helpful because it would group tags together. It would be fine if it sorted the tags alphabetically. I would really appreciate this added functionality.
Lowell
Posted at 5:46pm on January 31, 2008
My vote is this option
Posted at 11:55pm on February 1, 2008
+1
I organize my projects per tag and I am not going to create 10 smart lists for each project
Posted at 8:55am on October 16, 2008
says:+1, for exactly the same reason as garnierjm
Posted at 12:34am on March 31, 2009
says:This is a great idea. I would love to be able to print one list that had all my @phone tasks listed together, all my @phone tasks together, and so on.
Posted at 10:58pm on June 27, 2009
I use a list for my grocery shopping - and I think it would be really great to sort a list by the tag -- so that my "grocery shopping list" could be sorted by items tagged produce, dairy, meats, bakery etc. I can think of lots of good uses for this, this is just an example.
Posted at 5:36pm on July 8, 2009
says:YES! I'm eager to be able to sort by tags and, as osmaneralp says, be able to print groups of tasks relative to the context/location of what I have to do
Posted at 6:27pm on July 9, 2009
says:I figured it out: use smartlists! Check out "Tips & Tricks" forum for Tuesday, June 23, 2009 by Emily Boyd about how to make smart lists. I made one for each of my 6 tags and now they show up right along with my folder tabs at the top of the main tasks window.
Posted at 6:12pm on July 11, 2009
says:Smart lists are wonderful, but the desire of sorting by tag is to permit one to have one list where the tasks are logically grouped within it, rather than having to refer to multiple lists. This is useful for export, for Gcal, for printing, and for assessing relative effort across multiple areas.
Per-list, multi-variate, customizable sorting remains in my mind one of the areas RTM could really easily improve their task management without having to revamp the UI drastically.
Posted at 8:01pm on July 14, 2009
says:I'd like to see sorting by tags too.
To answer lwallach's question using sarah.whitfield's example, let's say you have the following tags: groceries, produce, dairy, meats, bakery. All of your groceries are tagged with groceries and one of the others.
Your smart list would filter on tags:groceries. RTM would then sort on tags by first removing any tags from the sort that appear in all items in the view--groceries, in this case. It would then sort the remaining tags and then sort the tasks with those tags in that order. Within each tag, it would sort by priority, due date, and alphabetical order (as it does now by default). If a task has more than one tag (not counting the primary tag such as groceries), the task is sorted by the smallest tag.
In addition to groceries, my use cases include packing lists.
Thanks!
Posted at 5:28am on September 13, 2009
I'd much prefer to just click the Sort by box and select Tags.
Posted at 12:38am on September 15, 2009
says:Yes, that's precisely what the user would do!
I was describing what the user would expect to see after he or she selected "tags" in the sort by list.
Posted at 2:01am on September 15, 2009
says:+1 for what mdfloyd1 said. "Sort by tag" as an option in the "sort by" box, that is definitely the feature I miss most in the entire RTM universe.
Posted at 9:24am on September 22, 2009
This is a tough situation. Since we all have different tagging schemas, we all want different tag sorting schemas. The systems suggested above would work for the individuals suggesting them, but not for most of us. And it seems like the only use for them is for a secondary use of RTM - keeping shopping lists. And there have been some excellent suggestions in other threads on this subject to get a grocery list sorted by aisle without having to add a major feature to RTM that would suit but a few.
I'd much prefer that the developers devote their time to something like incorporating weekdays into the duration and repeating schemas that are more directly in concert with RTM's primary purpose, task management, and more likely to benefit the majority of users. I very much doubt there's a tag sorting methodology that would suit more than a small fraction of RTM's users.
Posted at 2:46pm on September 22, 2009
says:@cdhsman: Your view is in the minority, at least in this thread. The workarounds in other threads (creating additional lists) are really unacceptable; my list tabs already fill the page! I have absolutely no need of duration, and I can say as easily as you that this is the same view as the majority of users (since you didn't cite a reference).
Note that a shopping lists is not the only use case. I would use the sort by tag feature for a half-dozen packing and standing todo lists that I have. Others can certainly cite additional use cases.
Note that your post was not constructive in any way and was too full of subjective opinion. It is up to the developers to determine which feature is the most popular, and negative posts such as yours do not help. It occurs to me that you've probably added this note to all feature requests which don't suit your personal fancy.
Definitely not cool.
Posted at 4:26am on September 24, 2009
Thanks for you're highly objective, totally constructive and utterly cool reply! :)
I guess if no negative opinions are allowed, that would explain why mine is the only one. Someone please point me to the guidelines saying one can't post against a suggestion, if done politely and in a constructive way.
Posted at 4:14pm on September 28, 2009
+1 for Sort by Tag ... surely this would be quite easy to implement ? pleeeeeease RTM :)
Posted at 10:37am on October 1, 2009
says:+1 this would be great, for organizing shopping lists. I currently have to pre-pend all my shopping items with a code to sort them for easy access at the grocery store.
Posted at 6:12pm on October 4, 2009
+1 totally... please please please... ;)
i was quite surprised that this does not already exist along with all the other cool functionality you already have ;)
Posted at 1:53am on October 9, 2009
says:I just came on to post about this and see that I already did back in January of 2008. I really hope we can add this - even just a simple alpha sort by tags of a list (just like priority, due date or task name). Would be so helpful!
Posted at 2:08pm on October 26, 2009
says:I agree with tobias.voigt, mdfloyd1 and others to "Sort by tag" as an option in the "sort by" box. Not just for grocery lists: I tag my work tasks by project, and would like to sort by project without having to go through multiple smartlists. This is a huge big deal in my world and is making me look at exporting my lists to another program in January when my pro membership runs out.
Posted at 6:44pm on November 5, 2009
says:This was a good suggestion two years ago, and it is still a good idea. I know that sorting by tag can present a range of UI difficulties, but I think it would be very powerful for a wide range of users and use cases.
Posted at 2:27am on November 14, 2009
