Can I create Smart Lists to automatically include certain prefixes?
Hello all,
Love the product and am happy to be a pro user!
I'm looking for help with the following scenario:
I have two jobs, one for my employer and a company I own.
I label all the lists for company projects (some 15!) with the prefix "wkDak-". All of the projects for the company I own are labeled "wkPS-".
I would like to utilize a Smart List to see how many Next Actions (which I tag with "na") I have at a given time across all of my work lists. The problem, of course, is that this smart search would be very extensive. Plus, I'm always adding and removing projects at a pretty rapid pace. So, updating a smart search every time with this would prove very cumbersome.
So my question is: Is there any way to create a smart list that will return all items tagged with "na" that are in any list beginning with "wkDak-" ? I'm not sure if there's an attribute like "list:wkDak-*" that I could employ in this situation or not, but that would be phenomenal.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
Love the product and am happy to be a pro user!
I'm looking for help with the following scenario:
I have two jobs, one for my employer and a company I own.
I label all the lists for company projects (some 15!) with the prefix "wkDak-". All of the projects for the company I own are labeled "wkPS-".
I would like to utilize a Smart List to see how many Next Actions (which I tag with "na") I have at a given time across all of my work lists. The problem, of course, is that this smart search would be very extensive. Plus, I'm always adding and removing projects at a pretty rapid pace. So, updating a smart search every time with this would prove very cumbersome.
So my question is: Is there any way to create a smart list that will return all items tagged with "na" that are in any list beginning with "wkDak-" ? I'm not sure if there's an attribute like "list:wkDak-*" that I could employ in this situation or not, but that would be phenomenal.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
Exploring an alternative:
If wildcards for lists aren't available, should I create a list called "WkDak" for example, and make the projects into tags with "wkDak-" prefixes? The next step after that would be, I suppose, to create smart lists for projects that would auto-tag the task with the project name, but then for NA work tasks I'd still need to see all tags that were like "WkDak-*", so I'm not sure that's really an option.
Just trying to work through it out loud. Appreciate any input you can muster. :)
If wildcards for lists aren't available, should I create a list called "WkDak" for example, and make the projects into tags with "wkDak-" prefixes? The next step after that would be, I suppose, to create smart lists for projects that would auto-tag the task with the project name, but then for NA work tasks I'd still need to see all tags that were like "WkDak-*", so I'm not sure that's really an option.
Just trying to work through it out loud. Appreciate any input you can muster. :)
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
seankilleen,
Considering another alternative (like the latter idea you had), if you reorganize your projects as tags instead of lists, you could use the tagContains search operator.
Then, a Smart list like tagContains:wkDak- tag:na would be just what you're looking for.
And yes, Smart Lists for individual projects (e.g. tag:wkDak-123 list:WkDak) would assign those properties to any tasks added.
Hope this helps!
Considering another alternative (like the latter idea you had), if you reorganize your projects as tags instead of lists, you could use the tagContains search operator.
Then, a Smart list like tagContains:wkDak- tag:na would be just what you're looking for.
And yes, Smart Lists for individual projects (e.g. tag:wkDak-123 list:WkDak) would assign those properties to any tasks added.
Hope this helps!
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
seankilleen,
Yes, that's the case currently. Sorry for any inconvenience there.
Yes, that's the case currently. Sorry for any inconvenience there.