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Inbox Filters
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Skyler Reeves
It'd be great if we had criteria we could use to filter our inbox.
For example, suppose we have tasks coming in via two different project management tools like ClickUp and Asana, a filter to only show tasks from Asana and vice versa.
Additional filters from apps, or combinations thereof, would be great as well. Same goes for things like tags, priority, date, etc.
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Stefania
Hi everyone! Now that we added the sort feature in the Inbox, do you still feel you need the filter in this view?
We wanted to avoid hiding tasks in this view, e.g., if you filter by label and a new task without a label arrives in the Inbox, it would be automatically hidden, and you won't see it. It feels risky to us.
Spoiler: we'll add sort by Deadline soon -> yes, both connectors' deadline and a brand new Akiflow deadline :)
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Samuel Veramendi
Stefania: I think the sort feature in inbox is a good replacement of solution for the problem listed by Skyler. I'm happy with it!
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Skyler Reeves
Stefania: Do tasks that come in from Asana automatically get labels? If not, then I would still need the ability to filter tasks by application and more specifically, filter tasks by their Asana project (similar to what Ryan Levander mentions below).
Something similar to the way Sunsama handles this would be ideal where we can filter Asana tasks by things like (see screenshots for more details):
- Project
- Section within that Project
- Assignee, due date
- And sort by due date
Stefania
Skyler Reeves: Not at the moment but I added your vote to this request: https://akiflow.canny.io/features-and-improvements-request/p/automatic-assignment-of-labels
Thanks for your feedback Skyler!
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Sam Sasaki
Stefania: It would be great if we could still filter by some qualities of tasks! Personally, all of my tasks get associated by labels, but I have some tasks that aren't worth creating a whole new label for. So, if I could filter tasks in the inbox to only show tasks without a label, that would be amazing!
Stefania
Sam Sasaki: Hi Sam, thanks for your feedback :)
Do you usually have many tasks in the Inbox? What would this filter help you achieve exactly?
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Sam Sasaki
Stefania: Yep! I have a lot of tasks that I create that are for the future. However, because my schedule changes so much, I don't want to just put them in a random time slot out of fear of losing the task in case I want to move it up in my schedule or later in my schedule. Because of this, I have a lot of tasks that are created and labeled, but not scheduled in my calendar yet. I also have my random tasks that don't fit a label or necessarily have a time slot in my inbox. As a result, I have a lot of labeled unscheduled tasks in my inbox and random tasks that don't fit a label. So, being able to filter out tasks that are already labeled, would allow me to have a clearer view of what kinds of miscellaneous tasks I have left to accomplish!
Hopefully this was a helpful to understanding my use case! Also, I know ya'll have a ton of new, more important features to develop, so no worries if this isn't able to be implemented!
Stefania
Sam Sasaki: I just wrote you in private I would like to understand this better :) thank you!
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Ryan Levander
Much agreed here. Not only filters between apps, but filters in apps as well.
I have 4 Asanas and like 6 Slacks - I'd like to be able to search with filters to perform a more targeted search.
As a result, I scroll for too long and find it a waste of time and stop using the app most of the time (so far).