Projects, Smart Lists and Subtasks
funnytick says:
Hello community, Hello RTM-Team
I have the following system set-up:
I use tasks with sub tasks as projects. Because I only want to see tasks in these projects that are actionable, I tag with "actionable" accordingly (so I can easily sort these actionable tasks from the rest).
But this comes with one problem: If I complete all actionable tasks of a project I must reevaluate a project and define the next actionable tasks. Now finding these projects is the one thing I am struggeling with. Of course I could grind all projects and do that manually... but I rather not ;)
Basicly I am looking for something like this: (not working, only example)
hasSubtasks:true NOT anySubtaskTag:actionable
Is something like this possible? And if not, I am interessted for an alternative way to handle projects? How do you handle projects?
Thanks and Greetings
I have the following system set-up:
I use tasks with sub tasks as projects. Because I only want to see tasks in these projects that are actionable, I tag with "actionable" accordingly (so I can easily sort these actionable tasks from the rest).
But this comes with one problem: If I complete all actionable tasks of a project I must reevaluate a project and define the next actionable tasks. Now finding these projects is the one thing I am struggeling with. Of course I could grind all projects and do that manually... but I rather not ;)
Basicly I am looking for something like this: (not working, only example)
hasSubtasks:true NOT anySubtaskTag:actionable
Is something like this possible? And if not, I am interessted for an alternative way to handle projects? How do you handle projects?
Thanks and Greetings
(closed account) says:
hasSubtasks:true NOT tag:actionable
Luckily, we only need one set of tags!
Luckily, we only need one set of tags!
(closed account) says:
Oops. I did that totally wrong. It is looking for tag: actionable at the project level which isn't what you want at all.
Retreating to my corner & getting ready for round 2.
Retreating to my corner & getting ready for round 2.
Unfortunately this isn't currently possible.
When you do a search in RTM it is only looking to see if tasks (any task whether a parent task or sub-task) match the search.
There is no way to search for a parent task and specify the attributes of its sub-tasks. At least not yet...one can hope!
The way I handle larger projects is to give them a start date so I see them on my "work" list, even if they aren't due right away. Then I just review them and see what subtasks are there and need to be worked on. My search is:
list:work AND (dueBefore:tom OR startBefore:"4 days of today")
So anytime I add a larger project to my work list I simply give it a start date of today (or maybe a few days ahead if I know I won't get to it today).
When you do a search in RTM it is only looking to see if tasks (any task whether a parent task or sub-task) match the search.
There is no way to search for a parent task and specify the attributes of its sub-tasks. At least not yet...one can hope!
The way I handle larger projects is to give them a start date so I see them on my "work" list, even if they aren't due right away. Then I just review them and see what subtasks are there and need to be worked on. My search is:
list:work AND (dueBefore:tom OR startBefore:"4 days of today")
So anytime I add a larger project to my work list I simply give it a start date of today (or maybe a few days ahead if I know I won't get to it today).