#645

add 'Done' state to contexts

    • Created on: Wed, Feb 20 2008 (over 4 years ago)
    • Reported by: Anonymous
    • Assigned to: -
    • Milestone: 2.3
    • Type: enhancement
    • Resolution: -
    • Version: -
    • Status: New
    • Priority: High (2)
    • Component: Functionality (app)
    • Estimate: None/Small/Medium/Large None
    • Severity: normal
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    When a context becomes irrelevant, you can either delete it or hide it. I'd like to keep the context for archive / statistics or for re-use if it becomes relevant again.

    So deleting a context is not a good option, especially because all related actions will be deleted too. Therefore I currently hide all contexts that are 'done'. But some contexts like someday/maybe are hidden too. This gets confusing when you have a lot of hidden contexts

    So I propose a separate state for contexts: 'Done' which acts just like 'Done' for projects. You can hide it from view, but seperate it from hidden contexts.
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          on Feb 20, 2008 @ 01:00pm UTC * By Anonymous

    this is somewhat related to #603
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          on Dec 11, 2008 @ 08:48pm UTC * By Anonymous

    Status changed from New to Accepted
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          on Jan 16, 2009 @ 08:04pm UTC * By Vitalie Lazu

    Assigned to changed from Anonymous to -none-
    Updating tickets (#743, #752, #768, #781, #535, #47, #295, #298, #805, #806, #324, #584, #97, #592, #344, #603, #114, #629, #636, #645, #393, #405, #433, #434, #202, #462, #220, #233, #310, #95, #635, #397, #94)
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          on Apr 07, 2009 @ 10:43pm UTC * By lrbalt

    Type set to enhancement
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    Assigned to changed from Anonymous to lrbalt
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          on Mar 19, 2010 @ 02:58pm UTC * By lrbalt

    Milestone changed from 2.0 to 2.1
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          on Jun 11, 2011 @ 12:33am UTC * By lrbalt

    Priority changed from Normal (3) to High (2)
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          on Jun 17, 2011 @ 11:39am UTC * By lrbalt

    Milestone changed from 2.1 to 2.2
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          on Jun 23, 2011 @ 04:01pm UTC * By jcwenger

    Good idea, I have the same problem.
    "Done" seems like the wrong description though... "Canceled"?
    Also tied to ticket #790 -- identical request at todo level. I like "Dropped" better.
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          on Jun 23, 2011 @ 11:18pm UTC * By lrbalt

    I was thinking about 'closed' for context and 'dropped' for todos...
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          on Sep 06, 2011 @ 08:46pm UTC * By popsch

    How can a context be 'dropped' or 'closed'? The physical location or the logical context still exists, even if you don't have actions for it. 'Hidden' is the proper name, however, if, as the submitted suggested, you want to have several categories for hiding a context, then I would suggest 'inactive' as another one.
    However, this raises the question whether you should:
    • see inactive contexts in the autocomplete function and
    • be able to use them via REST
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          on Sep 07, 2011 @ 10:06am UTC * By lrbalt

    hidden is to put it out of sight, for example for someday/maybe stuff
    if you use a meeting for a contexts and in time you quit going to that meeting, the contexts becomes inactive. You can hide the context or delete the context now. But deleting it will also delete all (completed) todos from Tracks. If you are not fine with that (i.e. keep your stats) you'd like to mark it inactive, dropped or closed (whatever term is best) so you do not see it anymore in dropdown lists, etc.
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          on Oct 11, 2011 @ 10:44am UTC * By u2ix

    For me it looks quite strange to have closed contexts. Does this really follow gtd? Maybe sometimes it's better to use projects.

    But I understand the problem, that people like to keep their stats. So why not simply add a deleted state to contexts? This way they can act as removed in the app and only be visible in the stats.
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          on Apr 06, 2012 @ 03:00pm UTC * By lrbalt

    Status changed from Accepted to New
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          on Apr 06, 2012 @ 03:15pm UTC * By lrbalt

    Assigned to changed from lrbalt to -none-
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          on Apr 16, 2012 @ 02:34pm UTC * By lrbalt

    Milestone changed from 2.2 to 2.3
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