What happens if you reset your system clock? - sent from my phone, please excuse brevity -
- always mail me at [email protected] - Sent from BlueMail On 6 Jan 2018, 10:20, at 10:20, Venessa G <[email protected]> wrote: >Wow, Dwight, thanks so much for the detailed reply! I am going to have >to >come back when my mind is a bit more fresh and play around with it! I >haven't done anything with advanced filters as yet. I have had MLO for >a >week now and it took several days for me to get my head around how the >basic components work (particularly Contexts; I ended up having to go >back >in and change Contexts on tasks because I didn't initially understand >how >they worked). > >I'll be honest and say that the time seems confusing, but it's also >almost >2am, so I'm not exactly at the top of my game! lol I will come back and > >re-read though. > >Ultimately, what I've done at this point, is change some of the hours >of >the Contexts (particularly the Weekly ones) to not display from >midnight to >6am. That's helped a lot. I do also admit that when the due date turns >red, >it makes me anxious... So that's also a big reason why being able to >change >the chron time from midnight to something later would be useful. > >Okay, heading to bed, but I wanted to take a second to thank you very >much >for such a helpful post and I promise I will come back to it when I can > >grok it better :) > >Venessa > >On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 12:59:22 AM UTC-5, Dwight wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 7:00:29 AM UTC-5, Venessa G wrote: >>> >>> I'm on the trial and have found that MLO seems to work really well >with >>> the way I think and go about my day, with just a few exceptions. >Most I >>> either learned to work within or I work around. But I'm really >hoping this >>> one can be changed, rather than endured. >>> >>> I often work very late, sometimes after midnight. It's disconcerting >when >>> I've got my list down to a couple things and then suddenly it's >populated >>> with all the tasks for the next morning. Aside from going in and >changing >>> all the time settings for the contexts so that there is nothing >between >>> midnight and, say 6am (which could then mess up what I *am* working >on in >>> the moment), is there any way to have the day reset at a time not >midnight? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> >> >> >> Hi, Vanessa and Richard, apologies for the long answer but this is >> actually a complex subject. MLO has incredible power but a lot of >that >> power is concentrated in the "advanced filter" section, where you can > >> define a set of rules that produced a list of selected tasks that >exactly >> matches what you need to see right now. So, no, you cannot change >what time >> midnight happens but you can create a task list which excludes >today's >> tasks until 6am by setting up the appropriate filters. >> >> First, I want to check a couple of assumptions. I assume that a task >that >> was on your list yesterday and didn't get completed should still be >on the >> list today. Same for tasks that were on the list the day before >yesterday >> and didn't get completed. And so on. Also, from midnight to six, >while you >> are not wanting to see the new day's tasks (yet), I am assuming that >if >> there's a task explicitly coded to start at 3am you want it to show >up on >> your list at 3am and not wait till 6am with the rest of the day's >tasks. If >> either of these assumptions is wrong then my solution won'e work. >Please >> let me know! >> >> So, the key to working with advanced filters is to forget about >issues >> like what time it is and how tired you are and just describe what >tasks you >> want to see. State it in terms like I want to see every task >where_____, >> and fill in the blank with a list of conditions. Usually the >conditions >> describe characteristics of each task that determine if it should be >> displayed. Sometimes it includes characteristice of the tasks's >parent or >> the task's top-level parent. It does not include the time, the date, >the >> day of the week, or your horoscope. The advanced filter knows about >> concepts like now(current date and time), today (current date at >midnight) >> and tomorrow (current date plus one at midnight.), but they have to >be used >> in testing against defined characteristics of the task. >> >> We should also do some background on date/time formats and midnight. >A >> date/time value is expressed as a floating-point decimal number, >where the >> whole number part is the number of days since the start of the >calendar >> scheme, and the fractional part is the time. 0.5 is noon (half way >through >> the day) 0.25 is 6am (a quarter of the way through the day) and >0.0007 is >> one minute past midnight. Also, with floating point numbers you never >want >> to test for equality: 0.500000000000 and 0.499999999999 are different >by >> only one tenth of a microsecond but they are NOT equal. So you should >never >> test for a time = noon, better to test for a time later than 11:59 >and >> before 12:01. >> >> Enough background, let's design a filter. We need to come up with a >set >> of rules which produce the correct result both before and after >midnight >> and before and after 6am. >> >> The first challenge is that we want to hide today's new tasks for the > >> first six hours of the day. So the first part of our filter is, do >not show >> a task until it is six hours old, or StartDateTime is before >now-(6/24). A >> minute after midnight, the day's tasks are only one minute old, not >old >> enough, so they are hidden. Six hours later they become old enough >and they >> appear. >> >> This filter by itself would delay every task's appearance for six >hours, >> so if a task starts 4am it would not appear until 10am, six hours >later. We >> only want this six hour delay for tasks that start at midnight, so we >need >> an additional filter to say that if the start time has already passed >and >> the start time is after 12:01 then show the task. Or, StartDateTime >is >> after today 00:01 and StartDateTime is before now. >> >> One more part of the filter: with what we have so far, if a task >starts >> 10pm, the next day from midnight to 04:00 it will be hidden, because >it is >> not after midnight and it is not six hours old. We need another >filter to >> say that tasks from yesterday and earlier are also shown. The filter >is >> StartDateTime is before today. >> >> The final filter is ((StartDateTime before NOW-4H) OR ((StartDateTime > >> after TODAY 00:01) AND (StartDateTime before NOW)) OR (StartDateTime >before >> Today)) >> >> If you have already learned how to add a filter to an existing view, >then >> you have everything you need, good luck, and please let us know how >it >> works out. If you don't know how to manage advanced filters, no >[problem, >> just write back and tell us what the view name is of the view you are > >> looking at when, at midnight, the next day's tasks put in their >unwelcome >> midnight appearance. I will write back with simple >> step-by-step instructions. >> >> -Dwight >> >> > >-- >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/6d6519b6-6fb4-49bd-aebe-2dd53467fff7%40googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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