Hi, Christoph. First let me say that I doubt that you are seeing a bug. Everything you described sounds pretty normal.
*What is the main filter* I believe that the "main filter" is another name for the contents of the Current View->Filter->General box. In other words, it's your selections for Action, Hierarchy and Completed. I don't know, maybe it's just Action. Anyhow: *How would anything be showing that does not match the main filter?* Because of hierarchy. Suppose that you have set the hierarchy filter to show parents of items that pass the filters. So once MLO has picked out all of the tasks that pass the filter, it then adds the parent items to the view. The tasks that passed the filter will be bold. Any parents, if they also passed the filter, will also be bold. Any parents that did not pass the filter will not be bold. Note that if your action filter is "All" then everything should be bold. *How can a task be bold while an identical task is not?* If one passes the filter and the other does not. Suppose that you have set the action filter to show active tasks and you are showing parents. Create a task that will be active and will be displayed in your view. Make a duplicate task and make it a subtask to the first task. The subtask will be active but the original task is not, because a task cannot be active if it has uncompleted subtasks. But the original (parent) task will still be in the view, because it is the parent of a task that's in the view and we are showing parents. So the subtask will be bold and the identical parent will not be bold. -Dwight On Friday, January 11, 2019 at 1:03:43 PM UTC-5, Christoph wrote: > > One thing I find confusing in MLO is the seemingly arbitrary display of > some tasks in boldface which are not my most important ones. > > Today I tried to get to the bottom of this. First, I found that there > was an auto formatting rule activated that put tasks in boldface which > were modified less than 15 minutes. After deactivating this rule, I > still got a lot of boldfaced tasks. Then I found that this was caused by > a very hidden option: Current View -> Filter -> General -> Show > Hierarchy -> Config -> "Highlight matched to the main filter". After > deactivating this, finally all boldfaced tasks were back to normal. > > Now I still wonder what is meant with "main filter". The help file is > not very helpful, let me quote: > > "Highlight matched to the main filter - highlight the tasks in the list > which match the main filter." > > What a great explanation /s > > Please, what is the "main filter"? > > Moreover, I had two tasks with exactly the same properties, one was > highlighted, the other not. I have the impression that there is a bug > here, and the highlighting happens more or less randomly. > > Anybody else confused by this? > > -- Christoph > -- 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/5b1f39bb-b3a6-4841-9250-8168e7480198%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
