I don't know what the best way to fix the problem would be but I would just like to add that I think it is a problem. Now I sometimes have to erase the context which I think is less important or just deal seeing items repeated, which I find quite annoying.
I could see benefits of having a list of contexts that are prioritized with the first context in the list being the one that's displayed. I think that would be better than having items coming up multiple times in the same view but could imagine that it might be hard to set these priorities and that they might change for different situations. I also like the idea of having separate lists of contexts that are mutually exclusive, as in the Trello example described by Richard C. I could imagine something like that being very useful. Then instead of choosing "group by Context" you could choose something like, "group by Place Context" or "group by "Day of the Week Context" and these would not have repeats. But I guess someone might want an activity to have multiple places or multiple days of the week, which may create the same problem as currently exists. However, I'm not sure what type of lists people would have, but repeats in these customized list examples might not be as much of a problem as repeats in the current muddled list of contexts. As in, if an activity was listed as being for Tuesday and Thursday, I think a repeat in list broken up by days of the week would make sense. In the current system, I have contexts which are place specific and those are related to other aspects of the activity (that I use for filtering different views) and now my "Grouped By Context" lists have @Office: items A, B and C then right below say something like Research Activities: Items A and C. The repeat is unnecessary and it really does make the lists hard to read and much longer than they really are. As I said, I'm not sure how to fix it but I agree with Kitus that it would be interesting to see a potential solution from MLO. On Friday, November 1, 2013 9:07:47 PM UTC, kitus wrote: > > Dwight, > > thanks for your response, and thanks for taking the time to summarise what > has been discussed here. > > Democracy is a cool system, but it can get tricky when you provide the > population with a blank sheet of paper. Everyone will speak their mind > differently and reaching a consensus can get rather hard. We all tend to > diverge and see things our way. > > I suggest we hope to reach a consensus on identifying whether or not some > of us consider MLO development should pay attention and define their > position with regard to a specific situation or workflow that is causing > people to be less productive than they are with the current behaviour. > Suggesting a solution can be the least convenient way in terms of coding it > because we don't know how MLO works from the inside. > > If you think we have reached a consensus in identifying something that > could be improved, I think it now is time for MLO team to take it up from > here. For that, I think that my example should suffice. > > Just my 2 cts > > Thanks > > On Friday, November 1, 2013 3:35:16 PM UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: >> >> As a person who has no stake in this issue, I'd like to share my >> assessment of where it stands. >> >> If I'm counting correctly there are three people who believe that this >> issue warrants an investment of development resources. Simce the summary I >> wrote, two alternative suggestions have been made, one imho modest in >> scope, the other extensive. There have been no responses to either >> suggestion, either affirmative (that's a good suggestion, I agree) or >> negative (I can't support your suggestion, here's why, and here's a new >> idea that perhaps would be good for both of us). So at this point I would >> have to say that you have three suggestions, each with the support of one >> person. This doesn't seem likely to attract much developer interest. >> >> My suggestion foir you is to try to use the forum to reach a consensus, >> meaning a single write-up, preferably not very complex, that all of you can >> support. Also, I think you should use the forum to present a compelling >> description why other users should be interested in supporting this >> suggestion. >> -Dwight >> MLO Betazoid & Moderator >> Via k@mail on sgn2 > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/da42d6e6-dcf4-451a-9206-855d4bc6eb11%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
