Closed andrei-a-papou closed 5 months ago
Hm, interesting. I agree this is a case that I had not considered and that’s currently not at all supported.
Right now the search treats searches for h:
and t:
as logically "or" connected (almost all other search terms are "and" connected).
Short of requiring the user to actually provide the and
s and or
s manually (this would be terrible! it comes with (
grouping )
), there has to be a new search term that expresses the "and" connection to the rest of the search for t:
and h:
fields.
Two minutes of thinking yielded only crappy solutions, like having a T:
and H:
search term that is the same as t:
and h:
, but are "stronger" in the sense that a task must have these. Any better idea is really appreciated!
I thought about H:
and T:
myself but frankly I wouldn't go there. I think it fosters further inconsistencies: special search keywords like due:
are case-insensitive and introducing a case-sensitive one feels confusing.
How about this: make h:
and t:
searches consistently use AND between terms, like everywhere else. Then you could search for hidden:yes
to only show the hidden tasks. Additionally, introduce the any
value, so searching for hidden:any
or h:any
shows all tasks, including hidden ones.
Docs would need to be updated to reflect the change and I'll be happy to help with that. There are some typos and possible improvements in the docs that I could fix, I'll send a patch for you to consider, hopefully this weekend.
That's a really good idea, I like it! Especially because it'll make things more consistent. I'll put it in the next bigger release.
I'll be happy to test it!
The hidden:any
search is already implemented (see here), t:
is coming soon™.
Just tested, seems to work great, thank you! I can finally hunt down my hidden tasks :)
Alright, these are in now with this commit
Hmm... t:
and t:any
work the same way. t:yes
and t:no
also function correctly. h:yes
and h:no
work fine too. But h:
functions as h:yes
, not as h:any
.
And that was documented and tested accordingly. Still inconsistent though :sweat_smile:, so I fixed it in db298aa0
Thank you! Seems to work like a charm.
I am playing around with the search feature/saved searches and generally speaking I love it!
However, I've read the docs and there doesn't seem to be a way to show only hidden tasks or only ticklers. Or perhaps I haven't thought of a way? Would appreciate a pointer then :)
Like others, I use hidden tasks to store projects/contexts and some other tech info. I can show hidden tasks via
h:yes
, but this also shows all other tasks. Since I have ~150 todos, finding the hidden ones is a challenge. Same goes for ticklers: sometimes I need to quickly look at all the postponed tasks and them only. Is it possible?