Inherit tags from a project to the actions associated with that project
I have often found that when I create a project, there are a number of tags that apply to the entire project, as well as the actions associated with that project. Of course, individual actions could have their own set of tags as well. It would be nice, though, to be able to click a menu list item that says something like "duplicate project tags to project actions". This would of course not overwrite any of the tags already put in place in any of the actions, just make sure that all project tags are added to all actions.
This would save some work for me as I have to write the same set of tags for all actions associated with a project. The reason that I do not want the tags only on the project, is if I do a search. If I only have the tags on the project, I would not see the actions associated with that project in the search result.
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Christiane Magee on 09 Mar, 2010 06:34 PM
Leif... I have made my own suggestion to the dev team on this one so you aren't alone! I always tag my Projects with a client name and would love for that to be carried through to the tasks associated with it. So, long answer, short... it's on our radar. :)
3 Posted by Elurven on 09 Mar, 2010 07:08 PM
Just a small addition. A feature that would allow the project actions to inherit the project tags, would probably work best if you set this condition on a project and that future actions created in that project will inherit the tags. Another way to resolve this would be to manually set this on a project level rather than action level but if it does not work automatically for all future actions in the project, then this feature would be as manual as setting it on the action level. But I suspect that this has also popped up on your radar ;-).
Support Staff 4 Posted by Christiane Magee on 18 Mar, 2010 08:43 PM
100% agreed. This feature improvement would be useless if it didn't apply on future tasks added. :)
5 Posted by jonsimmons on 21 Apr, 2010 08:46 AM
+1
I use tags as locations (slight bending of GTD methodology, but hey - it works for me!), so having a project such as Paint Kitchen with a tag of !home would ideally default all future tasks under that project to also inherit that tag (with the ability to change if necessary).
6 Posted by Proximo on 21 Apr, 2010 08:57 PM
I can see how this would be helpful to many. I don't personally use tags to identify projects, but I can see how others benefit from the idea.
@Jonathan Simmons,
GTD is about making it work for you. Bending the methodology is part of what makes GTD great. :-)
7 Posted by martin.tyler on 29 Apr, 2010 03:11 PM
+1
Just started checking out nirvana today and figuring out whats missing that would make it work for me.
This is one thing that would help me.
Either this or nested projects - you can achieve similar things with this.
The 'next + show projects' view seems most useful to me, but i want to be able to just see my work projects/tasks when i am at work
8 Posted by Proximo on 29 Apr, 2010 04:34 PM
@Martin.Tyler
Areas of Focus are going to be released soon. This will allow you to create different Areas for Nirvana that would act like a Super Filter or Global Filter.
If you switch to your Work Area, the entire UI will only show task/projects related to that area.
It's going to be great.
Support Staff 9 Posted by Christiane Magee on 25 May, 2010 05:33 PM
Thought I'd mention to those who may not know, Areas of Focus is now a live feature:
http://help.nirvanahq.com/faqs/tutorials/areas-of-focus
10 Posted by jo on 30 Oct, 2010 03:18 PM
+1
I've started using Nirvana today and am still figuring things out but this is one thing I think is really lacking. I like being able to filter my tasks by tag, but I wish all tasks within a project would automatically inherit the project's tag added rather than having to manually add it.
11 Posted by Proximo on 31 Oct, 2010 03:44 PM
@Jo,
A new major release is ready and Nirvana will migrate some users over. We can check and see if this functionality has made it into this new version. If not, we could always request the feature again.
Nirvana staff are great people. This does not mean every suggestion is implemented, but if it makes sense and others want it, they usually try their best to implement the things that will make Nirvana better.
12 Posted by Tony on 31 Oct, 2010 05:45 PM
I would also really like to see tasks inherit project tags... At least I think I would. How are people using the Areas of Focus functionality? Tasks do inherit the Area of Focus attribute from projects, but there seems to be some potential for overlap between this and tagging. Kinda confused about this.
13 Posted by Proximo on 01 Nov, 2010 05:56 PM
@Tony,
AoF are basically Uber Tags.
David Allen mentions in his first book that context are a location or resource. What Areas of Focus do, is give you an Uber Tag that can control your Locations or Major area of interest.
Tags in Nirvana are actually resource context.
example:
AoF:
Home
Work
Personal
Finance
Self Defense
Tags:
email
call
internet
computer
meeting
office
errand
anywhere
When I show up to the office in the morning, I change my AoF to "Work" and now everything Nirvana shows is related to my location. When I go home, I switch the AoF to "Home" and now I can see everything related to my house.
Let's go back to "Work" as the AoF. So now that I am at work, I only see work related task/projects. I can now use the tags to filter out my task based on the resource context that is required for the task.
If I am at work and want to look at all my email related task, I can filter by "email" as my tag.
I could get into more details here, but I will stop for now. I hope you see how AoF and Tags can work together to really focus your list to the location/interest and the resource required to complete it.
14 Posted by jonsimmons on 16 Nov, 2010 01:39 PM
Cross reference http://help.nirvanahq.com/discussions/suggestions/701-remove-projec... - seems to be about 50/50 at this point!
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