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New tasks created in smart lists don't go to right list

(closed account) says:
I have a list called "Work". In this list, I have tasks that recur on a daily basis and are tagged as "daily". This can make the list pretty big and messy so I've created a smart list with this filter: "list:Work not tag:daily". This works great for viewing, but when I enter a new task in this list, it doesn't go to my "Work" list as I expect but to my "General" list. Is there some change to the filter that I can make to fix this? Is there a bug?
Posted at 5:52pm on August 27, 2010
raymond.bergmark Power Poster says:
Adding tasks to a smart lists only works if ALL the smart list criteria are un-ambigouos. In your case, the not tag:daily is ambigouos. RTM then skips the whole thing and adds the task to your default list.

When you add the task, you can access it easily for a few seconds by clicking the task notification in the very top of the screen, even if the task doesn't meet the smart list criteria.

You can read more about keeping your newly added tasks on screen here: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/3700/
Posted 14 years ago
(closed account) says:
That is a very clever post Rajjan, thank you. I ended up just setting my Work list as the default since it is the only one that I used smart lists with. Thanks again!
Posted 14 years ago
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