[shampden]

while i'm loving using OF in general, as i've amassed more and more information in it i'm having trouble trying to filter it in meaningful ways. i'm not sure if i'm missing something in terms of the way i've structured my data or if i'm missing an obvious feature, but would love some help in how folks are sorting their data,

problem 1: when i try and filter based on whether a task is flagged, i get a list of every project even if only one or two of dozens of projects has a flagged item in it. this does not appear to "focus" very well, and i find my self digging just to see what i've flagged to take on that day. is there a way to narrow this down so that i'm only seeing the projects that contain flagged items?

problem 2: folders appear to lose their utility to organize things into larger groups if one can not see the folder name as part of the project-name when sorting the lists in different ways (the only real view i seem to be able to use is the folder view) since the others lose their context (not gtd context but literally what meta project they are associated with) when viewed any other way. how are people using folders? maybe i should just stop using them for everything but the Personal / Work level of grouping. as it stands i have 3 levels of folders before one gets to a project :

work (as folder)->jobs (as folder)->jobname (as folder) ->job tasks (list of projects)

so any time i try and list things in any view other than folder view i end up with a whole bunch of projects which are hard to tell what job they actually belong to. maybe i just need to flaten my higherarchy, but i would love to hear if anyone has any suggestions.

thanks
stefan