[peterlemer]

Can I run 2 distinct OF databases at the same time?
I have so much 'info only' and 'completed' material that it's clagging up my reviews and such.

I'm not ready to mark 'info only' as 'completed' and there doesn't appear to be a way to filter out a single context from Perspectives.

I could use a separate application altogether, but wondered if I could keep it all in the same livery, as it were

peter

[whpalmer4]

Why not just set the next review date on the "info only" stuff to some time in the distant future? If the only problem it is causing you is that it shows up in the review of active stuff, that should eliminate the issue, no? I do my reviews in a grouped by next review view, with the future groups closed. I'm enjoying the new "move to the next project upon marking this one reviewed" functionality!

Perspectives retain the sidebar selection, so it is possible to set up a review perspective (or action perspectives, for that matter) which doesn't include your info folders/projects. You do have to take a little care when you create new projects/folders that you want included that you update the perspective, but a project mode view grouped by date added will let you spot new additions easily, and you could add a repeating action in your review process to remind you to do that check. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have an automatic means to have a perspective that showed everything except a fixed list of stuff, but I haven't had any brilliant ideas about what a good UI for that would look like.

[peterlemer]

> Why not just set the next review date on the "info only" stuff to
> some time in the distant future?

that would work, but would involve lots ( is there a counter somewhere?) of editing - and each new bit of info would need to be dated...

(ponders)

I know! if someone (else) could write a script such that all contexts called 'info only' were set to the apocalypse?

:-)

> I do my reviews in a grouped by next review view, with the future
> groups closed.

how?

> it is possible to set up a review perspective (or action perspectives, > for that matter) which doesn't include your info folders/projects.

assuming i've done the future thing?

peter

[Brian]

Peter, all you need to do is select everything in the sidebar except the items you want to exclude, then select the "Focus on" command under the view menu. The sidebar items that are not selected will be hidden (and the title bar will change to remind you that they aren't gone entirely.)

Next, just use the "Take snapshot of perspective" command under the perspectives menu to save the modified version of your perspective.

That help?

[peterlemer]

> Peter, all you need to do is select everything in the sidebar except
> the items you want to exclude,

I don't know how to do that :-(
The items I want to exclude are scattered across dozens of projects and the only thing that unites them is their context "info only'

If I do as you say in context mode, there is no focus available.

peter

[whpalmer4]

Have you considered the option of keeping your reference materials as notes on the appropriate action groups or projects? Another alternative would be as separate projects (which you could then handle in the fashion I suggested).

[Brian]

Originally Posted by peterlemer

If I do as you say in context mode, there is no focus available.

Sorry, I misread your original email - you're correct, you can't focus and hide contexts the same way you can projects. We didn't want to create places where you couldn't see how to move the projects you cared about forward. (Because the next action was in a context that was hidden.)

[Ken Case]

Originally Posted by peterlemer

I'm not ready to mark 'info only' as 'completed' and there doesn't appear to be a way to filter out a single context from Perspectives.

Would it work to set your Info Only context to On Hold or Dropped?

You actually can run two separate databases at the same time (the archive works this way), but what you can do with the separate database is limited. (I think I posted about this somewhere at some point, but you can't sync, can't add things to it using quick entry, it won't remember your preferred view settings, etc.).