Location reminders - how do they work?

[Miro]

Hi I'm a bit confused about how the location reminders work. if I set Omnifocus to remind me at a specific context location, will it only remind me at that location when I have tasks set for there or will it remind me in every case when I am at that location?

[wreising]

Looks that way. Location is Context based, not Task based.

Count me in for wanting Task based location.

In the meantime, I'm just adding more Contexts to expand what I used to just call "Errands".

Not a huge issue if you break things up a bit.

[pjb]

I used to have just Errands, now I have
Errands
Stores (alert when I arrive in a medium area)
Hardware (a keyword search)
Cooking (a keyword search)...
Towns (alert when arrive with a large area)
town1 (actual location of downtown)
Home Depot (the actual location, there is only one here)
town2... (actual location of downtown)

But I've also got:

House (alert when I arrive/leave a small area)
Leaving
Arriving

and something similar for the Workplace for those tasks I want to remind myself of when I get in the car but which may not alert if I just drive by a place.

It certainly has become more involved, but much more useful, too.

[Brian]

Welcome to the forums, Miro! Location reminders will only fire when there are uncompleted actions in the "Available" state. If the actions in a context that has a location all have a start date in the future (for example) reminders won't be triggered when you arrive/depart.

Hope that helps!