johannesjo / super-productivity

Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project.

http://super-productivity.com

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Projects + Tags organisation (e.g. folders) #3510

Open petruut opened 2 months ago

petruut commented 2 months ago

Pretty quickly, for professional users at least, the projects and tags will become overwhelming. The app needs a way to organise this.

The industry standard of allowing folders should also be implemented here. An alternation would be namespace, which is neat and more powerful but perhaps more difficult to implement.

Folders would allow to tuck all People tags together, Priority tags together, Status tags together, etc. Same applies for projects - all personal, professional, relationship, home, related projects can reside in a neater way.

This is essential to allow the app to scale and fit the complexity of the life of most users.

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johannesjo commented 2 months ago

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johannesjo commented 2 months ago

Makes sense to also allow this for tags when we add this.

petruut commented 2 months ago

Omnifocus has a nice way of wrapping this to allow for fairly well organised/ dense Projects and Tags hierarchies.

The quick add syntax from Omnifocus could be useful as well: I can quick add/ quick create a new tag/ project directly in the hierarchy by using " : " (which hints more at namespaces). An alternative could be "/" (which hints more at folders).

E.g. adapting this to the establishing quick entry syntax of SuperProductivity, this might look like:

+Folder : Subfolder : NewProject2 +Folder/Subfolder/NewProject

The smart auto-complete suggesting the available options within that hierarchy.

The same logic should apply to be both Projects and Tags - I see no reason why we'd fragment this.