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arvid

tandoor, at the moment that is not possible. Apologies for that.

Posted 4 years ago

+1
Another reason is that sometimes i want to just add "Walmart" or "Library" without having to find out the street address, I know where there are and I know how to get there. I think locations should exist stand alone and the address and associated map should be optional.

Other non address locations can be "online" or "Maria's Office"

I am being forced to use tags for now...

Dear RTM team, please consider this 'enhancement'

Posted 4 years ago

I'm using 'Notes' at the moment, which is just too many steps for something so simple and so necessary. I agree with tandoor and discoveringself, and for me this issue is what's stopping me from using rtm 100%

Posted 3 years ago

ranbarton

I don't see how a tag would be different from a location-less location. The value of locations are there presence on a map, and if you choose not to place the location on a map, then what you have is a tag, isn't it?

Posted 3 years ago

bilhelm96

I'd also like locations not tied to Lat/Long. For example "Home Depot" I could then us the Google Map to search for the nearest HD while I am out running errands.

Posted 3 years ago

apgordon

If you want to sort out all the things you need at walmart, why not just tag it @walmart?

Or if you want to organize the things you need to do when you're out shopping, why not tag multiple things .errand or .shopping?

Or, tag all errands with .errand and go a step further by also tagging things with @walmart, @homedepot, @grocery -- then you could get a list of all things you have to do while you're out AND all the things you have to do at each individual store.

Posted 3 years ago

agree!

Posted 1 year ago

jeffgarretson

Currently I'm using tags for pseudo-locations, and I agree that location is a special case of tags. However, it's a very useful special case, and I would love to be able to use virtual locations. The idea is that when I go to our business office, I'd like to be able to check for tasks I need to do there, so I can avoid another trip later (or better yet, plan ahead so I allocate enough to do all my business office tasks in one trip).

Unfortunately, Google maps doesn't work on an iPad from our business office (please don't get me started about BlueCoat web filtering...), so even if I set up a real, mapped location ahead of time, the iPad wouldn't know I was at the business office anyway. Ugh!

Posted 1 year ago

ceduchess

I'd like to use "locations" with GTD locations/types of actions like "calls" and "at a computer". Currently I use tags for this, but it's a bit clunky. With a cell phone I can make a call anywhere, and I have a computer in two places. I could also read something no matter where I am if I have my reading list. I tend to think of them more as "context" instead of location, and I never use the geolocation ability like others do.

As for the "at wallmart" or wherever, I set a location for my favorite grocery store and just pull up that location's list when I'm at any grocer. Again, this is a bit clunky, but at least I have a place to put with the location that the program won't be aggravated by.

Posted 12 weeks ago

idheath

Excellent idea to have virtual locations. I'd love to use the locations feature but most of my locations don't warrant GPS based locations. I've ended up using tags for locations but that's messy because I use them for other things too.

Posted 5 weeks ago