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Add tasks to Smart Lists without having them vanish if they don't meet the Smart List criteria

rajjan ProPower Poster says:

Mainly using smart list when adding tasks in the classic web site, it's annoying having them disappear before I'm finished editing them.

All of my smart lists are so complex (according to RTM ;-) that the search criteria are deemed ambigous, rendering the new task completely empty of all meta information. That in turn means that it disappears from view the second I press return.

I would love it if a newly added task could remain on screen until I was done with it.

An idea to solve this:
When a task is added (or edited, even including multiple tasks in multi-edit) the task is selected. As long as it's selected, it should remain in view, even if it (temporarily) doesn't meet the smart list criteria. As soon as it's no longer selected, it may disappear from view.

Couldn't take long to fix for Cow should she get some small pointers from Bob, I suppose she's getting up to speed by now.

Posted at 12:04pm on January 11, 2008

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ranbarton ProPower Poster says:

I think this idea shows real promise. I love the ability of adding tasks to smartlists, but it's frustrating when they 'vanish.' This could be a real antidote.

Posted 4 years ago

jkorn says:

I agree that this poses a usability challenge. I've encountered the same problem and wished for a similar fix. Thanks!

Posted 4 years ago

bkudria says:

I have a simple fix - define an @in list to act as an inbox, and make it a smart list with terms: not (list:urgent or list:wait ...) - ie, a task appears in @in if it isn't in any of the other lists. Then, you can be as arbitrary as you want want with your other smart lists, and if a task disappears, it'll be in @in.

Posted 4 years ago

rajjan ProPower Poster says:

Well, I have a Check smart list where these disappearing tasks will be until I have added the minimal meta info I want (duration+location). However, I want to add these two before the task disappears.

New idea: As I have this smart list Check, I can add this list to for example @Work:
location:@work OR list:Check

Posted 4 years ago

rajjan ProPower Poster says:

Just tested this, works really well. The newly added task that normally would disappear from view now remains on screen and can be edited.

Posted 4 years ago

rajjan ProPower Poster says:

Sorry, missed the closing (/b) above , works better now...

Posted 4 years ago

jkorn says:

Another approach that's now working well for me... Create a smart list defined as addedWithin:"1 day of today"

Shows only the few items I've added today. I use this list when adding new tasks, and don't have to search through a long list of tasks to find the one I just entered.

Posted 4 years ago

dvhart Pro says:

Just the yellow highlight notification saying "$task_title Added to list blah" seems like it would be sufficient.

Posted 11 months ago

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