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[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was glad to discover that GTG recently got a report plugin but it's far
from being useful to me. The main report that I need is a list of active
tasks grouped by "context" (in the GTD vocabulary). Here contexts are
represented by tags that share a common prefix (ctx:).

Something like this:

 Free time (ctx:freetime)
 [ ] 2010-02-13 Do something
 [ ] 2010-02-15 Do something else

 Work time (ctx:worktime)
 [ ] 2010-02-15 Work on foo
 [ ] Work on bar

 In Alsace (ctx:alsace)
 [ ] Help John with his setup

This is not doable with the current plugin because you don't have
the list of tags in the input. Furthermore, it's difficult to order
the tasks by some random criteria in particular because you don't get a
list of tasks but a tree of tasks.

Having the content of the report depend on the current view also seems
unintuitive.

Ideally a report should be customizable (how many days forward should
appear on it? what tags should be used for grouping?) without being
hand-edited.

How can we achieve this from where we are currently?

Random design remark: it seems to me that plugins should be able to define
supplementary user-editable fields that are associated to tags. In my
case I need a printer-friendly title for the tags representing contexts.
The time tracker plugin could also make use of it to define the associated
hamster activity.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog