Feature Highlight: Filtering on multiple contexts
August 21st, 2009 / 5 Comments
Every once in a while I am going to be posting about some various features of Vitalist, most notably features that you may not be fully aware of. I am starting it off with one I personally use quite a bit.
I am a big fan of working with contexts and I like to take advantage of using multiple contexts per action. Though to make this really useful, you need to be able to filter on multiple contexts to truly narrow your focus on what you are doing. This can be accomplished by using the ‘ctrl’ key when selecting your filter. I will show you with an example:
I am at work and need to make a couple of phone calls. I can easily see what I need to do with multiple context filters. First I select ‘@work’ from the context filter list. Then I hold the ‘ctrl’ key and select the ‘@phone’ context. And voila, all the calls I need to make at work.
From Howard on September 4th, 2009
uhm, I can’t seem to make this work as you’ve written it? No matter what I do, the last selected context prevails. Perhaps a picture to display what you’re describing…?
From Joe on September 7th, 2009
I am with Howard, I can’t replicate this and would appreciate some screen shots. Once you click on a context, there appear to be no other context in the current view that you can select.
From Robert on September 8th, 2009
Howard & Joe
Which internet browsers are you using?
From Joe on September 9th, 2009
Hi,
I just got it to work in Firefox and Chrome. Maybe I was being a dumbass before as it seems quite simple and I found holding down crl is not necessary.
If anyone is having problems still, make sure it is the filter list you are using and not the group by or main list.
Useful feature, keep up the good work!
From dg on May 26th, 2010
Just discovered this blog entry – and found it doesn’t work on Chrome beta at this time (specifically Chrome v5.0.375.55). It does work on IE8, but I prefer Chrome.