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ranbarton

Very clever - I like that.

Posted at 6:26pm on January 16, 2008

Yes its clever but at first try I didn't get it working and I just don't have time to fiddle around with it.

In my view this produce RTM is insufficiently mature for realistic use.

I mean is supposed to save you time not waste it

Posted at 7:02am on February 13, 2008

It's not constant time spending, not if you don't want to. It may take some time to settle first, and then monthly you may change something like this, but then it's an investment. At least from my point of view. Besides, the more you like your system, the more you will use it, and that is priceless.

Posted at 10:09pm on February 14, 2008

I just wanna add that I don't use complex hacks (or even RTM) for daily or trivial to do's and appointments, rather for managing all my inventory of goals, projects and their next actions, aka GTD's core. It's important to note most people don't even do it, much less in an organized and personal way. Spending time having a clear view and giving a clear direction to your life, and keeping that on a weekly basis, is no useless spending in my opinion.

And oh, great idea, rajjan! I'll surely implement it soon on some parts of my system.

Posted at 10:19pm on February 14, 2008

we.kanes

I'm thinking about doing something similar. I have 3 lists. Inbox, Personal and Work. I never want anything in the Inbox list. If it's there, it hasn't been processed. What I may do is add "or list:Inbox" to each smart list. This can potentially be a problem if I don't keep my Inbox clean. I don't want to look at a Smart List and see 10 extra tasks and later realize, oh, I don't want these here, they're just stuck in the Inbox...

Posted at 4:42am on August 23, 2008

we.kanes-

Here is how I avoid the "inbox clutter showing up in my quicklists" problem.

Set my Check list (I call mine aChk) to find any task that has no tags in my case:

isTagged:False

When I add a task to the inbox I always give it a tag, even if the tag is just "inbox". This keeps it out of my aChk list and thus out of my inappropriate quicklists


I tried to set up my check by time:

addedWithin:"the last 5 minutes"

but the addedWithin operator only seems to work with dates... bummer. it would have been a graceful solution.

Posted at 12:56am on August 29, 2008

Can't make this work at all

criteria : dueWithin:"2 days of today" or dueBefore:"today" OR list:¤Check

Posted at 1:37pm on March 18, 2009

rajjan

Well, you get all tasks either:
1 Due today or tomorrow
2 Overdue
3 In the list ¤Check
The result depends on the criteria in your list ¤Check

Posted at 2:13pm on March 18, 2009

nah.why

rats.

this doesnt work for the following type of smart list:

priority:1 OR priority:2

obviously, "priority:1 OR priority:2 OR NOT (priority:1 OR priority:2)"

will "work" in the sense that the tasks will stay, will not work in the sense that it will include all my tasks, not just the hi prio ones.

My soln, if you can all it that, is for every OR i have in my smart list, i have another smart list that removes the OR, ie i have:

priority:1
priority:2

and i just switch to this list when adding tasks. So, basically, i have lists who's only purpose is to add that particular set of attributes automatically to a task. This is annoying, and results in lots of lists, but it works better than having to track down the task by search or in the long list.

Posted at 2:42pm on April 25, 2009

rajjan

One way to find newly added tasks is to have a New smart list:
addedBefore:today
could do the trick.

Posted at 7:41pm on April 26, 2009

rajjan

Sorry, meant something like:
addedWithin:"1 day of today"

Posted at 9:12pm on April 26, 2009

for the record, the syntax requires that "day" be "days"

addedWithin:"1 days of today"

Posted at 3:43pm on April 28, 2009