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Cascading/nested contexts
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jonathantullett

Posted: Dec 15, 2011
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Hello,

I joined Toodledo today and it appears to support most of my needs. One feature I'm looking for, however, I can't seem to find so I thought I'd ask.

Is it possible to view tasks by cascading (nested) contexts?

As an example, I'm looking to have the following contexts set up:
Work
Work / Online
Work / Email
Work / Phone
Work / Boss
Home
Home / Online
Home / Email
etc

I'd like, on the contexts view, to be able to click on the single 'Work' or 'Home' header, and see all tasks assigned to sub-contexts (so clicking on 'Work' will show 'Work / Online', 'Work / Email', etc). I've tried different dividers - '/', '-', ':', '::', but none seem to be working.

As a former user of OmniFocus who now needs multi-platform support, this feature would be great and would definitely have me purchasing the pro account for myself.

Can anyone advise on whether it's possible, or how I could perhaps do a similar thing?

Thanks in advance for your time.
Jonathan.
jonathantullett

Posted: Dec 15, 2011
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By creating a search which matches on the specific contexts I want, I've been able to get this working almost as specified as above.

As it requires exact matching on the contexts, if I add a new subcontext - e.g. 'Work :: Training', I need to manually update the search (error prone).

If there's a generic way of having this done automagically, that would be great.

Any ideas?
Folke X

Posted: Dec 15, 2011
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Nested contexts and tags would be useful, but they are not implemented as such.

What I have done instead is I have chosen to use Tags, as these have more varieties of search critera available, and then I have my searches include the line "Tag contains Work".


This message was edited Dec 15, 2011.
alexandremrj_2

Posted: Dec 15, 2011
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There is an easier way to do it,

enable locations - and set one as Work and one as Home. This way you can sort by context when viewing one location.
jonathantullett

Posted: Dec 20, 2011
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Posted by alexandremrj:
enable locations - and set one as Work and one as Home. This way you can sort by context when viewing one location.


That, Sir, is genius!

Enabled. Perfect. Thank you!
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