Hi all

I still don't get how the "Setup Advanced filtering" dialog is supposed to 
work (Windows). Let's say, I want to create a rule like this (SQLish 
notation):


( dueDate <= today OR startDate <= today OR starred = true ) AND 
hasNextReview = false



I learned that the booleans work with siblings, not with childs (as I 
initially thought), that means I would have something like this


AND
   dueDate <= today OR
   startDate <= today OR
   starred = true OR
hasNextReview = false AND



Now, assuming this is correct - how do I easily add this to the advanced 
filter dialog?

First attempt: "Add sub-rule"

Nothing happens at all.


Second attempt: "Add rule" (let's start from the bottom): 

[X] NextReviev - does not exist - AND



Fine, now the next block is not a rule, it's rather a set of sub rules. 
When I click "Add sub-rule", it will behave weirdly:

[X] >
   [X] .... (empty)



Where has my "NextReview" line gone? I can try to revert and delete the 
empty sub-rule, but that doesn't work. All I can do is delete all rules and 
start from scratch. Pretty cumbersome. 

I solved this by exporting the rules, sending them to my android device, 
editing there (it's better but still bad), sending it back to my windows 
device, noticing that the rule doesn't work. In the end I opened the XML 
and modified it by hand.

Cumbersome, IMHO.

In another post 
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/iIqFqs4Kl1Y/oTOivaMYAQAJ> 
I saw Stéph write something that looks very similar to my pseudo code 
snippets. 

Are there activities ongoing to improve this? Some kind of pseudo code like 
remember 
the milk offers 
<https://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answer/basics-search-advanced>would 
be awesome. I must admit that this is the only part of MLO I really hate. 
It could be so powerful and is such a nightmare to use. It's really 
frustrating.

Cheers

André

PS: On my 4K screen I can only guess what the filters mean

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