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Two-level grouping in the task lists

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dmivapi 07/21/2015 08:25

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Hello,

While everybody is asking to have folders to organize tasks and projects. I have another suggestion (maybe somebody already suggested that). Would it be nice just to have a second level for tasks grouping feature. For instance - group by priority, and than by context. Right now I have to go to Advanced search to do that.

Dmitry

wendy_only post on 07/22/2015 02:44#1

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@dmivapi
Hi,

Thank you for your feedback.

It is not in our developing plan yet. We will do a research on this issue. How do you think that group by priority, and then sort by context?

Best regards,
Doit.im Team
dmivapi post on 07/22/2015 08:13#2

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Hi,

I thought, not to sort by context, but group by context - the second grouping may look just like the first one!
Inside of the the any of priority groups - you could see names of the contexts that can be expanded or collapsed showing hiding tasks - works like two-level tree. It does not have to be necesseraly priority and contexts - it would be good to choose what should be the 1st grouping criteria and what should be 2nd.

Dmitry
Folke post on 07/22/2015 09:20#3

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Bearing in mind that development here (and elsewhere) is a very slow process, I think some of the old suggestions are still valid and more useful:

1) You mentioned folders. Doit already has Goals that could serve exactly that purpose, if only Doit would "finish" the Goals feature and allow you to see all the tasks in that Goal.

2) Doit already has (or had) automatic sorting by priority within each context group. This feature was "destroyed" in v 4 for the next list. Simply bring it back, or even better, use priorit as a degault placement and allow the user to manually drag task to a different position.

3) Regrouping is very powerful, and Doit already has it, but not convenient enough. It would be very easy to make this a one-click procedure, with buttons at the top for "group by context", "group by deadline" etc instead of forcing people to move the mouse to the bottom and open a menu.

As for the suggestion here to have a two-tier grouping, I do not think I would use it much. I would probably always keep the second level sorting set to Priority, which is why I would recommend that Doit instead should simply fix the broken priority sorting (2 above), and, if possible, still allow for manual adjustment (which was also a very, very powerful feature in itself - kudos for trying to implement this).