[appigo-todo] Re: Focus List (is too myopic!)

I've been asking for something like this forever. One real quick way
to make a big improvement is to put an AND/OR button in between the
two selections in the "Hide Tasks" setting of the focus list. This
wouyld allow you to selct AND and only see items that fall within a
certain date range AND a certain priority. A button just like what was
recently added in the "list filters" setting.

On Dec 5, 1:43 pm, James <jhuff.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just want to say I agree -- changing to a "what to include" method
> instead of "what to exclude" would be a big improvement.
>
> The ideal option would be to allow users to specify criteria for
> things like priority, due date, and list name, and also whether the
> criteria should be treated as AND or OR (e.g., task should meet all or
> any of the criterion).
>
> For example:
> include tasks where priority = medium or higher, OR where due date =
> Today or earlier
>
> or,
> include tasks where list name = "work", AND where due date = tomorrow
> or earlier
>
> Gotta say, I generally love the app. I've been using it since version
> 1 and it's definitely getting better with each upgrade. Started out
> using it with Toodledo, but now use the Appigo Sync function. Would
> really love it if you could figure out how to sync to iCal via
> MobileMe instead, though, so I could have instant sync when away from
> my Mac.
>
> Thanks for the very useful app!
>
> On Nov 25, 8:48 am, Phattirepilot <phattirepi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I can only put it this way... The Focus List is next to useless.  It
> > merely "filters out" items by due date or priority-- or both of these
> > at the same time.  What is missing is a way to "flag" tasks to appear
> > in the Focus List.
>
> > If a person has a long task list and needs to focus on the tasks at
> > hand, one needs to know which items are due and due soon (which the
> > current Focus List can do) AND needs to be able to narrow down which
> > tasks will be worked on for the day (such as flagging the tasks) ..
> > thus a Focus List.
>
> > Currently, the Focus List can be...
>
> > ... filtered by Priority also but that eliminates items appearing by
> > due date.  (That is totally useless! )
>
> > ... filtered by Priority AND Due Date  (That would eliminate a lot of
> > tasks if you didn't go through each one and change two settings-- the
> > prioirty and the due date--  on every task you wanted to Focus on that
> > day!)
>
> > ... filtered by Due Date  (which means if you have a task you want to
> > appear in the Focus list you need to go through each task you wish to
> > focus on, and change the due date to some current date-- whether or
> > not the task is due on that date or not!)
>
> > Yes, this is something that can be worked around but it really could
> > be much better and much simpler.
>
> > I think the best scenario for a Focus List would not filter items out,
> > but rather display items that meet a certain criteria.  For simplicity
> > it would display items Due Today and/or in the next couple of days AND
> > would display items Flagged to be in the Focus List.  It should also
> > be easy to flag the items, not opening them up and going through
> > several selections i.e. tags, dates and priorities.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > ps  I enjoy the app and use it  daily.   Syncing w/ Toodledo has been
> > great and the Note Book app works well right along with ToDo.  I
> > really like the Time Stamp and Date Stamp feature on the Notebook
> > also...  Good work on both!

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