Hi Dwight, 100% agree, AND vs OR would work; in the meantime I'll give tags a try. Thanks for your help.
John J. On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 2:20:11 PM UTC-4 Dwight wrote: > Hi, JJ. MLO is not *ignoring *your closed Business Hours context. It it > filtering out and excluding any task whose open hours do not include NOW, > where "open hours" are calculated as the open hours of all contest combined > using *OR*. The config tag that would work for you would be to use *AND* > instead. > > The best workaround I've seen is to use contexts only if they involvce > open hours and use tags for all other contexts > > -Dwight > On 10/18/2021 09:31, JJ wrote: > > Hello all, I've been using MLO for about a decade and I often get > frustrated by the next action list. For a brief period in the early days > the next action list was incredibly accurate and my productivity > skyrocketed. I stopped using MLO for a couple of months and I've since > been unable to recapture that bliss. > > My preference is to work from three views - what I should be doing right > now, what's up for tomorrow, and all tasks/folder view for managing just > under 2000 activities. > > At the heart of the problem may be a fundamental misunderstanding on my > part of the appropriate use of contexts. I use them for > grouping/categorization, scheduling, and on occasion location. The > precedence of open/closed is causing me heartburn in that Open seems to > take precedence over Closed. For example: > > "Make a dentist appointment" has both the Health context and the Business > Hours context. Health hours match all my waking hours, Business Hours are > 9-5 on weekdays. MLO's next action view shows the task based on the Health > context and ignores the closed Business Hours context. > > A config option for "closed context overrides open context in next action > view" would address all my issues, but this doesn't seem to exist. I've > seen other options using multiple context queries but this would be > difficult as I have about 50 contexts. > > Am I doing something wrong here? Should I just use the single Business > Hours context to work around this or are there other methods that allow me > to preserve my attribution? > > Thanks all for any assistance. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/6c77b9f7-dd0d-43dc-b206-435077ad8805n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/6c77b9f7-dd0d-43dc-b206-435077ad8805n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/b41536f6-175e-49e4-97b8-baa463c0caden%40googlegroups.com.
