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arvid

Hi binaryeric,

for this you can actually use Smartlist. The Smartlist would display all tasks that have no due date and only tasks with a date within the range of 3 weeks.

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/smartlists/whatare.rtm

Arvid

Posted 4 years ago

Arvid,
thanks for your response. The issue with that is that I would need to change the entire structure of how I have built my RTM lists to all be smart lists rather than normal lists.

Does the RTM team see smart lists as the primary way customers should customize their rtm features? This would be a good thing to know for the future.

Thanks,
Eric

Posted 4 years ago

ranbarton

Smartlists are, IMHO, the way to go. If your lists are very key, then you may be glad to know you can constrain a Smartlist to show only tasks from a certain list, or lists. The operators are explained here:

https://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/search/advanced.rtm

Posted 4 years ago

jhollington

Ideally, I'd still like to see a "Start Date" option for tasks, especially recurring tasks, as this would somewhat address the problem, as well as providing me with the ability to have recurring tasks that don't necessarily have a specific due date (there are many things that need to be done on a regular basis, but not necessarily on a specific "drop-dead" date).

However, I'm pretty much working this out with smart lists right now. I use normal lists for very broad areas of responsibility (ie, Personal, Work, etc), and then use tags for anything more specific. Smart lists bring together static lists, tags and due dates to only show me things that should be "on my radar" at that particular time. For instance, the majority of my action-based smart lists only show me items that are due within the next 2 days, or have no due date at all.

For example, my "@Cals" smart list looks like this:

status:incomplete and tag:calls and (dueWithin:"2 days of today" or due:never)

In some cases, I key on multiple tags and static lists as well. For example, I work from home, so my office and computer tags may include both work and personal items, but obviously when I'm on "personal" time I don't want to see my work items. Ergo, my @Home smart list uses this criteria:

status:incomplete and (tag:household or tag:office or tag:computer) and list:personal and (dueWithin:"2 days of today" or due:never)

Smart lists really are the most powerful feature of RTM once you dig into them, and definitely keep it head and shoulders above any other task management app I've used.

Posted 4 years ago

jhollington, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts & practices here. it's very helpful!

Posted 4 years ago