thanks a lot Dwight! 

On Friday, April 29, 2022 at 9:29:16 PM UTC-3 Dwight wrote:

> This kind of thing generally requires a modulo or remainder function 
> (divide the date by seven and take the remainder) which is unfortunately 
> beyond the capability of the advanced filter.
>
> This is clearly different from what you are asking for but maybe you might 
> find it useful. You could create a context called "Monday" and in the 
> "Hours" section of the context definition you could define that the context 
> is open all day Monday and closed the rest of the week. Make another filter 
> for Tuesday, etc. Then, on each day you will see the tasks configured for 
> that day. you can make views that filter for context = Monday, or other 
> days, or groups of days. It gets complicated if you have other contexts on 
> these tasks in addition to the days of the week. In that case you could 
> still filter for given days or groups of days but you might not be able to 
> rely on the fact that every task not set for this day of the week will be 
> hidden all day today. That's because context tests have an implied "or" - - 
> if a task has contexts "Monday" and "phone" and if "phone" is always open 
> then the task will be active every day of the week because "phone" is open.
> On 4/28/2022 11:34, Stéph wrote:
>
> You've got me there - The filters can do amazing stuff, if you dive into 
> the advanced filter logic, but I can't think of a way of extracting day 
> names. The closest I can get is selecting to group by date, which shows any 
> entries over the coming week with the day name coded into each group title 
> - but I take it that's not really what you're looking for. 
>
> The only other thing I can suggest, if you want certain weekly repeating 
> actions to be shown by the day of the week on which you want to do them, is 
> to use contexts, flags or text tags to assign a weekday to each task - 
> however, that won't automate and keep the day name consistent with any date 
> changes you make.
>
> Stéphane
>
> On Thursday, 28 April 2022 at 14:44:41 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Just in case, I'm referring to filter date fields (e.g. due date) by day 
>> name.
>>
>> On Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 3:36:23 AM UTC-3 Patricio Carranza wrote:
>>
>>> hi guys! 
>>>
>>> is there any way to filter tasks by day name? (Monday, Tuesday, 
>>> Wednesday, etc)...
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>>
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