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Subtasks in seperate lists

welsh_dwarf says:
Hi RTM team.

I'm currently setting up a GTD style system, and was hoping to use tasks/subtasks as projects.

The idea would be to have parent tasks in a project list and sub tasks in Calendared, Next action, Waiting for etc lists depending on status.

Unfortunately, it seems that you can't have a subtask in a different list from it's parent.

Is this a planned feature, or do you have a nice work around I could use?

Thanks
Posted at 3:05pm on August 21, 2017
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
Hi welsh_dwarf,
You're right that currently subtasks are in the same list as the main task.

What you may want to do is to organize your GTD contexts or other statuses based on tags, so you can use those more flexibly with your subtasks. (You could also add more than one to a given subtask or task, which may be helpful in some cases.)

Hope this helps!
Posted 7 years ago
welsh_dwarf says:
Thanks,

This is what I'm doing, using a calendared and waiting tag, and replacing my lists with smart-lists.

eg Next Actions is defined as:

not due:never and not tag:waiting and not tag:calendard

Thanks for the reply
Posted 7 years ago
robert.ward says:
From the description of how you are using RTM, I think creating a Smart list of your subtasks would be helpful as well.

"isSubtask:true"

Just add on any other criteria you might need.
Posted 7 years ago
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