Thank you Eberhard, I had already made sure that the "include context" box was unchecked but that still left items with a second context on the list. Setting up an advanced filter with *Context Does Not Contain "Paris"*succesfully removed all items which have the city as their context.
It does still leave tasks which have a context that is a subcontext of the city. Like in my example if the context is set as "Mary," who is in Paris, items with that context stay on the list. To get around this I can manually make sure I enter the city as as the context in addition to the context "Mary" but do you know if there is a way for it to filter out items with contexts that are included in the context being filtered out? In the advanced filtering menu, I could see options for filtering things based on their top level folder, parent or project but not top level context. On Friday, May 10, 2013 5:55:51 PM UTC+5:30, Eberhard wrote: > > Hi Rachel, > > if you go to the filter menu (which in my case is left of the outline) > there's a little checkbox at the end of the context selector where you can > activate or deactivate "include closed" ... try it out! If deactivated it > should do what you're looking for. > > Alternatively simply add a new view and set the advanced filtering to > "context" "contains (consider open/closed)" and add the requested context. > Like for instance > > "context" "contains (consider open/closed)" "Paris" > > That should work as well and should only give you tasks currently being > active for "Paris". > > Let me know, in case that won't work. > > Eberhard > > > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Rachel A > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I've been using MLO for a while and I have found it very helpful. Up >> until now I have not really used any context filtering. I am currently >> doing some work that involves moving between cities. I thought if I >> classified tasks that could only be done in a specific city and closed the >> contexts they would be removed from my to-do list but it seems like only >> tasks that do not have any other contexts are removed. For example if the >> task has the contexts 'phone call' and 'city A' it stays on the list even >> if city A is closed. Also, I made some sub-contexts which are city specific >> and made them included in the city contexts and tasks in those sub-contexts >> are also staying in the to-do list. For example if I had a task I need to >> do with Mary, a person in city A, I set the context as '#Mary' and then >> included the context #Mary in City A but when I close city A tasks with the >> context #Mary are staying on the list. >> >> Maybe I'm going about this wrong. Is there another way to exclude tasks >> that can't be done where I am? All I can think of now is to make all the >> tasks that are city specific just have the one context of that city name >> but then I am losing the benefits of having more specific contexts for >> those activities while I'm in that city. >> >> I would really appreciate any advice on this issue. >> >> Thanks, >> Rachel >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MyLifeOrganized" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
