[jasong]

Folks,

I've been using OF for about 18 months, and have tried several times to combine my personal and work lists so I only have a single database. Until the syncing functionality, this was never very useful, but is something that is a lot more realistic now.

Unfortunately I'm hitting some snags in behavior that are blocking me from being completely comfortable doing this, and I'd like your thoughts on solutions.

My current flow is to have "personal" and "work" folders, and sync the database between the two machines. On my "personal" machine, all my perspectives are focused on that folder, and vice versa on my work machine. This actually works almost perfectly in the 90% case: I see only projects and actions specific to the location.

Where this starts to fail though is with contexts.

As an example, I have a "Contexts" perspective. This is meant to show me just the actions I can take in, say, "work". And it does this admirably: My list of actions is only those in the "work" folder.

But the sidebar continues to show contexts that have "personal" items associated with them (even if those items don't show up as actionable). This means that my list of "active" contexts looks like this:

* home
* calls
* blog
*[list of people, personal and work]
* San Francisco
* etc.

Some of these don't have any visible actions because they're in the "personal" folder, yet the contexts show up. I also have items in my "No contexts" view for the same reason.

These are my "active" Contexts, and "active" is supposed to mean "contexts which have actions"; I expect it to properly handle the fact that if I'm focused on a folder, and therefore there are no actions that would show up, that the context wouldn't show up either.

As bothersome as that is, I could live with this. Unfortunately, it has further issues. The badging on the OF icon, and in the menubar show that I have "due" and "overdue" items while I'm in my "work" context, even though those items are actually part of my "personal" context, and I can't do anything about them while I'm at work. This, of course, stresses me out.

(The fact that the menubar shows *all* my contexts is another issue. That's just frustrating.)

When I was using two OF databases, this wasn't an issue. I only saw the stuff that was in that database.

Can anyone suggest changes I can make that would have things work as I'd like them to? I don't want to go back to separate databases of course.

OmniNinjas, is this just a bug you're working to resolve, or is it "as designed" and correct?