Hi, Rachel. I have some experience with a similar situation, and I found "closed context" not to be a very effective way of handling it. Any time I traveled eary or late i would end up jiggering the times. Also, it was hard to check, while traveling, whether I finished everything in the place I was leaving or plan what to do when I arrived.
I was going to recommend making two to-do lists, a "London to-do" that includes everything *but* tasks in Paris and a "Paris to-do" that includes everything but tasks in London. But I see that you working with excluded contexts so you probably have that figured out. You might like to use the "context text" advanced filter. "Context text does not contain 'Paris' " will exclude @Paris but also #Mary@Paris. One last suggestion. On Android (and maybe other mobile platforms) you can define a location for a context. A 'nearby' view shows tasks near where you are, and a map view shows a pin in the map where a context lives. Clicking the pin shows active tasks at that location. You could set a location like 'within a 50km radius of tge Eiffel Tower' - but not on Windows. -Dwight Rachel A <[email protected]> wrote: »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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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