Nope, I don't get it. Surely Context-tags are for CONTEXTS! i.e. To me, roughly speaking, a "context" would be - physically where you are executing the task AND/OR - what mood or energy level it will require you to be in AND/OR - what software would be involved.
And because a task can only have one Flag at a time they are not appropriate for allocating multiple such "contexts" at once. To get clear, I am only talking about inheriting the value of a flat* at the time of creation* of the task, yes? i.e. The "child" task would be "born" with the flag value of it's parent. Thereafter it could be freely changed. Would inheriting roles and being part of goals really be such a bad thing? Maybe yes. Separately, I need a field that can be used to control one's overall attitude to whether or not it should be done. i.e. its "actionable status" if you will. (e.g. Active/Next, Someday-maybe, Waiting, Archive, Later, Travel-List etc). I don't like using Context-tags for what is really actionable status because it clutters up my real contexts. TBH, I still don't understand how other users manage to control their action statuses. I tried using folders but when you have large volumes of data moving between folders gets way too messy. "Hide branch in to-do" is useful but that is binary with only two values - on and off. So you can only have 2 statuses. (Active and Someday). OK so if we do understand each other, would you folks still object if the user was allowed to control the inheritance at birth of flags somewhere within MLO's Settings? J PS Fwiw, what I really want is a new, *completely separate* field for status, which would be inherited at the time of a task's creation. Or better it might even FULLY inherit. i.e. a Task's value as far as filtering is concerned would be: A) it's own value if set, but if not B) it would take on the value of it's most recent parent that did have a value set. In this way you could move an entire project tree in an out of say Someday-Maybe simply by changing one value at the root of the project tree. But I doubt MLO developers would have the stomach for such a large change. [sigh] On 28 January 2017 at 15:10, pottster <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Steph. I would not support this change. The way I use flags > would be made unworkable if flags were inherited. That's what contexts are > for. > > On Friday, 27 January 2017 16:21:04 UTC, Stéph wrote: >> >> I wouldn't want that - It would completely mess up my system. I'm using >> flags for some things (identifying roles and goals) specifically because >> they don't inherit, but categories do. >> >> On Tuesday, 24 January 2017 20:46:27 UTC, John . Smith wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Yes, Steph's suggestion would be ideal, although more complex and so >>> more costly to develop. >>> >>> If we can't have that, I am wondering if anyone actually object if new >>> tasks were made to inherit the flag of their parent? >>> >>> J >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 6:22:09 PM UTC, John . Smith wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> If new tasks were able to inherit the Flag of their parent task - in >>>> the same way that Contexts do that would really help me. >>>> Any takers? >>>> >>>> J >>>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/mylifeorganized/AbKtleSaT7A/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/mylifeorganized/04387241-8bfe-4936-a0d4-238acb854565%40googlegroups. > com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/04387241-8bfe-4936-a0d4-238acb854565%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CA%2BrSdyp8s4ck22%3DEu7dTjBZws%3D%3DJmV63d3%3DaWjm9%3DB%2BL%2B8T2pQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
