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! >>> >> -- > 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/5b327f19-c1d0-4bda-b8ba-45b771f41575n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/5b327f19-c1d0-4bda-b8ba-45b771f41575n%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/08c8773c-a95f-48ee-a98b-1164ed5b5211n%40googlegroups.com.
