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Ability to share Smart Lists

wss7932 says:

I've set up RTM to use smart lists quite extensively with the idea that they would be shareable just like regular lists only to find this is not the case. Please add this. This would be great. As it is currently everything goes to my inbox and the smart lists filter it all out for me.

Posted at 11:36pm on December 1, 2007

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Answeredemily (Remember The Milk) says:

Smart Lists right now are just a set of criteria that gets applied dynamically to your account. So, if I had a Smart List that was:

dueWithin:"7 days of today"

and I was able to share this with Bob, all Bob would see is the criteria applied to his own account (i.e., all his tasks due within 7 days, not mine).

From reading this topic, I understand that most (if not all?) people would like the ability to share the Smart List along with the tasks that show up for that Smart List in your account. (So in that example, Bob would see my tasks due within 7 days.)

I'm trying to get a better understanding of this feature request, so was wondering if folks here could answer the following quick questions:

1) What's the criteria of the Smart List(s) you're interested in sharing?

2) Who would you share the Smart List(s) with? (e.g., spouse, boss, co-workers, etc)

3) Why do you want to be able to share Smart List(s) with them?

4) Does the person (or people) you'd share the Smart List(s) with need access to edit the tasks, or just see them?

Thanks! :)

Posted 1 year ago

prunella says:

Being able to share smart lists would be extremely helpful.

Posted 3 years ago

toneill says:

Hear hear!

Posted 3 years ago

gesmith says:

I just talked out office into using rtm and tried to share a smart list. :(

Posted 3 years ago

g.bay says:

Smart lists are so fantastic. Would love to be able to share as well.

Posted 3 years ago

snowcrash2k says:

Please!!!!

Posted 3 years ago

docdoc78 says:

I'd love to be able to share smart lists with my contacts also. Additionally, It'd be great to be able to make a smart list public.

Posted 3 years ago

fabriciosn Pro says:

I would also love to do so.

Posted 3 years ago

sdouche.sa says:

+10 :)

Posted 3 years ago

lyncollege says:

I think sharable Smart Lists would be incredibly useful.

Posted 3 years ago

coopbmt Pro says:

I think I could make this work effecitvely for my workflow if I could just have a short-cut for sharing a task. For example, I use tag's to assign tasks to the various smartlists I have coordinated. Then if the task is appropriately tagged, and shared with someone else, it will show up in the correcft smartlist for them (based on tag) as well.

Just means I have to select and use the pull-down to share tasks. It would be great to be able to "assign/share" a task with a hotkey, then select the user to share it with.

Posted 2 years ago

fbiljecki Pro says:

+1
I really miss this feature! I have only few tasks to share with few people so it is really non-sense to create a special list for those tasks. I would like to just put the name of the person as a tag, and then create a smart list with that tag that I would share.

Posted 2 years ago

innuendo888 Pro says:

im overwhelmed with RTM but just today discovered that smart list sharing is not possible. pleaseee

Posted 2 years ago

gwen168 says:

sharing smart list ? Cant believe you dont have this

Posted 2 years ago

chimericdream Pro says:

Sharing and publishing a smart list is definitely the highest on my priority list for RTM. Everything else is so customizeable that it doesn't make sense not to have this feature.

Please add it!!

Posted 2 years ago

matthew.fallshaw Pro says:

+1

Posted 2 years ago

jfiat says:

+1

Posted 2 years ago

driggins says:

+1

The inability to share my smart lists undermines RTM's applicability for GTD'ers like me. I have to run an alternate task management system (via RTM) in order to delegate tasks to others.

Posted 2 years ago

sunjana1 Pro says:

+1
yes this would be super valuable!

Posted 2 years ago

nathan.reiter says:

+1

Posted 2 years ago

jonmadison says:

+1

Posted 2 years ago

stormy.peters says:

+1

Posted 2 years ago

ghostsquad Pro says:

I totally agree! +1

Posted 2 years ago

leah.shalom ProPower Poster says:

+1.

Posted 2 years ago

danygeller says:

+1

Posted 2 years ago

driggins says:

+1 again

Posted 2 years ago

cbi Pro says:

+1

Posted 2 years ago

mvrkljan says:

+1

Posted 2 years ago

ctresor Pro says:

+1

Posted 2 years ago

patrick.scheuerer says:

+1
would be incredibly useful for me!

Posted 2 years ago

apstein says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

caylanlee says:

Yeah seriously, this needs to be implemented.

Posted 1 year ago

ascrichton Pro says:

mmm +1

Posted 1 year ago

jonny.walton says:

I think this would be very helpful. It would also be useful to be able to set a reminder for smart lists as for a task so that every day / week a list of all tasks coming up in the next week / month were listed. Both of these would be very helpful indeed

Posted 1 year ago

pablo.cerdeira says:

One more. Please, I need to share smart lists with my contacts. I would be a very useful option to set tasks faster and to get a better control over it. Sometimes I forget to share some specific task but if RTM allowed me to share a smart list, it probably would never occur again.

But, as I can see here, there are more than one year since the first request :-(

I cannot believe that it will be developed soon...

Posted 1 year ago

ctresor Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

kanntara says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

r.trevor.hughes says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

benmjt Pro says:

+1 Thanks

Posted 1 year ago

wmono Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

glenn.hope Pro says:

Pretty please with nomnoms on top?

Posted 1 year ago

kylir Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

gwllosa Pro says:

Or at least an explanation why they aren't easily shareable?

Posted 1 year ago

janvanderploeg Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

ernfors Pro says:

+1

Would be very very useful for me as well. I actually have a greater need to share "smart lists" than "normal lists".

Posted 1 year ago

chasedeluca Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

stephen.nevison Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

keoni8888 Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

common.csc says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

jennwilgo says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

rauros Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

nobody4711 Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

hetp0st says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

casutton Pro says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

discomcdisco says:

Ok, so i'm weighing in here. .. I want this very much...

Essentially, i'm working around not having subtasks by using tags (which works great), having the ability to share smart lists for 'Release' / 'Patch' etc would provide a really good view on current actions.

Sharing normal lists is fine... til you have way to many to interact with...

Posted 1 year ago

darcy.sharman says:

+1

Posted 1 year ago

rmavery says:

C'mon... Share the smart list... :-(

Posted 1 year ago

eduardoconde says:

C'mon this request is too old and this would be very useful!!!

Posted 1 year ago

thechilibuddy Pro says:

Share smart lists please!

Posted 1 year ago

alecjtaylor Pro says:

+1 from me, smart lists are really, really cool!

Posted 1 year ago

watkins.family says:

+1 This is essential for what we want to do.

Posted 1 year ago

daniel940 says:

I second (or 100th) the motion. Share the smart lists.

Posted 1 year ago

kwegner says:

+1 much needed

Posted 1 year ago

craig.jessup says:

I was shocked to find that this was not already a feature; please get this implemented as a priority!

Posted 1 year ago

tobbesjufem says:

+1 essential feature, must have

Posted 1 year ago

ankgt says:

Please add this feature. It would be absolutely amazing! I stumbled upto this thread while trying to Google this functionality and am glad to see that there are soo many people already asking for the same thing. Please add it soon though... its already been 2 years since this thread started!

Posted 1 year ago

mailman1175 Pro says:

Looks like this is a pretty popular request. I, too, would love to see it implemented.

Posted 1 year ago

ellenme says:

Just one example: I'd like to share my @grocerylist with my husband so that he can pick up items when he happens to be at the grocery store. If he were to use RTM on his smartphone as I do, he'd be able to edit the tasks, though since he likely won't, I just want him to be able to see the list (possibly printing it out). I realise I could easily set this list as a regular list, however, I like that when adding an item to my smart list on my iPhone, it will automatically tag it appropriately. Again... just one example.

Posted 1 year ago

heisenman Pro says:

+3 This is excellent and precisely what I need. I need the ability to share smartlists with my boss so he can see, at a glance, what I'm up to at any given moment. Giving him an "unlisted" URL he can bookmark and return to at will would save real time. Our meetings would be more productive because he would already see my daily roadmap of productivity, if you will, track completed tasks, etc.

Posted 1 year ago

ranbarton ProPower Poster says:

Emily:

I'd love to share a grocery list or an errand list with my wife, and have it be editable.

I'd like to share a list with subordinates at work, and have it be uneditable.

These lists are generated by searches for tags and, sometimes, due dates.

I wish to share these to enable me to use RTM as a communications tool, so that tasks I share with others can be usefully managed in RTM.

I don't use lists - everything is organized by smartlist via tag, so the current sharing options are of limited utility to me.

Thanks for pursuing this.

Posted 1 year ago

tomkerswill Pro says:

+1 for sharing Smart Lists

Posted 0 years ago

ghisamd says:

+1

Posted 11 months ago

lkolny Pro says:

@ emily

I'd like to shortly explain my implementation of smart lists and then answer your questions:

I use RememberTheMilk to organize work with my office. I tag tasks with the names of my colleagues and create smart lists so I can see who is responsible for a certain job. I'd like to share those lists with co-workers, so they could easily keep track of tasks assigned to them.

1) What's the criteria of the Smart List(s) you're interested in sharing?

basically - certain tags

2) Who would you share the Smart List(s) with? (e.g., spouse, boss, co-workers, etc)

co-workers

3) Why do you want to be able to share Smart List(s) with them?

so they can keep track of tasks I made them responsible for

4) Does the person (or people) you'd share the Smart List(s) with need access to edit the tasks, or just see them?

just seeing tasks is enough for me, although an option to let them edit tags would be nice

And - of course - big +1 for sharing smart lists :-)

Posted 11 months ago

vihendrik says:

+1

1) What's the criteria of the Smart List(s) you're interested in sharing?

certain tags.

2) Who would you share the Smart List(s) with? (e.g., spouse, boss, co-workers, etc)

co-workers.

3) Why do you want to be able to share Smart List(s) with them?

to not having to rearrange my task-List-structure (of course, I could manually create a task-list witht these tasks and share it) and - more specifically, use the list with certain tags and filters for weekly meetings.

4) Does the person (or people) you'd share the Smart List(s) with need access to edit the tasks, or just see them?

in my case seeing them would be enough.

On a glance, very similar to lkolny.

Posted 11 months ago

cdrynan says:

For the RTM-resistant spouse. This is a MUST have. :) honey-go-do lists would go to a new level.

Posted 10 months ago

j.aitken Pro says:

+1 - I would find this a productive & time saving feature, below are my responses to emily's ?s.

1) What's the criteria of the Smart List(s) you're interested in sharing?

The results of a Smart List search criteria which has been setup by me.

2) Who would you share the Smart List(s) with? (e.g., spouse, boss, co-workers, etc)

* Management team (in my main job I have 3 bosses) & colleagues
* Family

3) Why do you want to be able to share Smart List(s) with them?

@ Work
On Monday I have to produce a weekly prioritised 'todo' list for my 3 bosses. Invariably this list is out of date by lunch time. It would be better if I could just send them a link to a dynamic Smart List which would enable my management team to monitor my constantly changing priorities. In addition to this it would be good if other colleagues could see this dynamic 'todo' list.

@ Home
To give the extended family a means of submitting & progress monitoring odd jobs & tasks.

4) Does the person (or people) you'd share the Smart List(s) with need access to edit the tasks, or just see them?

In order to make this feature really effective I suspect there needs to be a range of access/edit permission levels. Ranging from view only as a public or password protected webpage (I have management & colleagues who would not be prepared to open an RTM :-( account to get access). Right up to, well... (this is were I feel it gets tricky) something close to full edit permission. But, without the collaborator being able to see any other lists in the owners account which are outside the original search criteria.

Posted 10 months ago

fionaussie Pro says:

+! for sharing smart lists/tagged items.

I tag items I need with several tags so when I'm at one of many stores, I can see what I need even though it may reside on a 'master' list since that is where I would normally purchase the item. If I am able to tag and share the task, I can pull up the tag, depending on which store I'm at. I would also be able to share the smart list with my husband so he can use his phone to see what we need.

For work, I start a list for a project, but may tag certain tasks with the names of various people who are involved in the project. Sharing a smart list, or list with similarly tagged tasks would allow the person to see their responsibilities, as well as me, and I would still be able to track the project under one 'master' list.

Posted 9 months ago

dbenjan Pro says:

+1

Posted 9 months ago

tdemarest says:

+1 here as well. My issue is very similar to fionaussie's.

Posted 8 months ago

andromac Pro says:

+1

Posted 8 months ago

oleh.boiko says:

+1

Posted 8 months ago

kylir Pro says:

Great idea. Please implement this!

Posted 8 months ago

sandro.tarkhan says:

absolutely! I really need that

it's usually inappropriate to share all the tasks in any of your lists with someone

but let's say you want to share some tasks with John: tag them with "John", create a smart list and share with John

Posted 7 months ago

chasedeluca Pro says:

A read-only option would be sufficient for me (and many other people, it seems). Really the whole "publish" tab that's available for regular lists, should be available for smart-lists. I should be able to publish a read-only smart list for a contact, or I should be able to publish it publicly.

To be honest, I can already generate an atom feed of a smart list; publishing would just be nicer. Sharing (even as read-only) would be ideal, though, if only because RTM users could see it among their lists.

True sharing (read-write) would get very complicated. Read-only, though, makes a lot of sense, and should be much easier to implement.

Posted 7 months ago

k.mueller07 Pro says:

For my uses, it would be sufficient that another person just sees the tasks related to her. As I sort my tasks according to topics in different lists, I tag them with the name of the person who is supposed to help me with these tasks and create a smart-list with these name-tags. It would be nice if that person could see the whole smart-list in her account, too.

Posted 7 months ago

peterlov Pro says:

+1

Posted 5 months ago

alistair.fox Pro says:

+1 for lkolny who said what I would want:

"I'd like to shortly explain my implementation of smart lists and then answer your questions:

I use RememberTheMilk to organize work with my office. I tag tasks with the names of my colleagues and create smart lists so I can see who is responsible for a certain job. I'd like to share those lists with co-workers, so they could easily keep track of tasks assigned to them.

1) What's the criteria of the Smart List(s) you're interested in sharing?

basically - certain tags

2) Who would you share the Smart List(s) with? (e.g., spouse, boss, co-workers, etc)

co-workers

3) Why do you want to be able to share Smart List(s) with them?

so they can keep track of tasks I made them responsible for

4) Does the person (or people) you'd share the Smart List(s) with need access to edit the tasks, or just see them?

just seeing tasks is enough for me, although an option to let them edit tags would be nice

And - of course - big +1 for sharing smart lists :-)"

Posted 5 months ago

jezozwierzak says:

+1

Posted 16 weeks ago

gstore says:

+1

Posted 11 weeks ago

alexandergarber Pro says:

+1

Posted 10 weeks ago

ejlevin1 Pro says:

+1

Posted 8 weeks ago

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