Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Filtering nearby tasks with a Smart List

Smart Lists can be great to show you just the tasks you want at any given time. dominic.spachmann takes that on the road this week, sharing a Smart List to show a specific set of nearby tasks.

I did not use the “nearby” function very much, since it shows all tasks nearby without a filter on what is relevant now.

With a Smart List “_NEARBY” in my Favourites this changed:

I use location for two purposes:

1. Tasks that are bound to a location and due at a certain point in time.
2. My shopping tasks that are bound to a location e.g. the supermarket without a due date to pick up if you are nearby.

I now created a Smart List “_NEARBY” and put it in my Favourites:

locatedWithin:500m AND (dueBefore:Now OR startBefore:Now OR due:never)

The tasks in this list are grouped by location.

This list now shows all tasks nearby that are relevant to me: Tasks, that are due and where the location is nearby and all tasks that have to be done nearby, which have no due date.

So I see what really has to be done nearby. I find this very useful.

Thanks for sharing this tip, dominic.spachmann! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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