OK - hopefully one of you out there can help me out with the following scenario (bit long - sorry).
I'm trying to use OF to help with my diet. For each meal I eat a set of things (carbs, dairy, fruit, veg, etc.). What I want to be able to do is only see the things for the next meal and then, as I cross them all off, I see the things for the next meal, etc. I have repeat set to 24 hours, so tomorrow's meals are automatically populated.
Attempt 1:
I set up a single project called Meals. Within that project, I created a bunch of sub-projects. All of these were sequential, so morning snack comes after breakfast, etc. Inside of each sub-project I put the things to eat as tasks all in parallel. I created a perspective that shows the Eating context (all were in this context), available items, sorted by Due date. This worked as expected - I only saw stuff for breakfast. Now, here's where the problem occurs. When I cross off the items for breakfast, the items for the next day get created (correctly). Since the breakfast sub-project isn't empty, morning snack never shows.
Attempt 1 is how I would like to be able to make this work since it's cleaner and would give me what I want to see in the perspective (just the next meal).
Attempt 2:
Since the previous didn't work, I created a separate project for each meal within a folder. I.e. Meals folder now has a project for breakfast, snack, lunch, etc. In each project are the things to eat. All are in the Eating context. My perspective now is grouped by project for the Meals folder (focused), grouped by project, and sorted by due. I could live with this, except when you group by project, that seems to override the sort by due, i.e. the sort-by only works within the group, so if I'm done with breakfast, it still shows up at the top of the list, even though all other tasks are due later than morning snack. IMO, the sort-by should work by figuring out the tasks and then using project as the secondary sort key. This gets a bit tricky, so I'm not surprised that project is the primary to use for grouping and sort is within the group.
I would happily entertain any solutions to either approach or even additional approaches. They key is that I want to be able to have a perspective that only shows the next meal.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I'm trying to use OF to help with my diet. For each meal I eat a set of things (carbs, dairy, fruit, veg, etc.). What I want to be able to do is only see the things for the next meal and then, as I cross them all off, I see the things for the next meal, etc. I have repeat set to 24 hours, so tomorrow's meals are automatically populated.
Attempt 1:
I set up a single project called Meals. Within that project, I created a bunch of sub-projects. All of these were sequential, so morning snack comes after breakfast, etc. Inside of each sub-project I put the things to eat as tasks all in parallel. I created a perspective that shows the Eating context (all were in this context), available items, sorted by Due date. This worked as expected - I only saw stuff for breakfast. Now, here's where the problem occurs. When I cross off the items for breakfast, the items for the next day get created (correctly). Since the breakfast sub-project isn't empty, morning snack never shows.
Attempt 1 is how I would like to be able to make this work since it's cleaner and would give me what I want to see in the perspective (just the next meal).
Attempt 2:
Since the previous didn't work, I created a separate project for each meal within a folder. I.e. Meals folder now has a project for breakfast, snack, lunch, etc. In each project are the things to eat. All are in the Eating context. My perspective now is grouped by project for the Meals folder (focused), grouped by project, and sorted by due. I could live with this, except when you group by project, that seems to override the sort by due, i.e. the sort-by only works within the group, so if I'm done with breakfast, it still shows up at the top of the list, even though all other tasks are due later than morning snack. IMO, the sort-by should work by figuring out the tasks and then using project as the secondary sort key. This gets a bit tricky, so I'm not surprised that project is the primary to use for grouping and sort is within the group.
I would happily entertain any solutions to either approach or even additional approaches. They key is that I want to be able to have a perspective that only shows the next meal.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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