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[Bryce Harrington <615027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

It's funny - your hierarchy in comment #2 is basically the same way I
came to organize my own tasks.  :-)

- Work
  - Ubuntu
    - Arsenal
    - Xorg
  - Launchpad
- Personal
  - house
  - software
    - gtg
    - inkscape

Anyway, so yeah tags is 100% the way to solve this need.  Perhaps we
could be more explicit in suggesting this layout via the default initial
tasks by having @work and @personal parent tasks.  I'll look into adding
that.

Fwiw, using a hierarchy like this will tend to play into gtg's
strengths.  For instance, during my work day I turn on the Work View and
watch the total task count next to @work as a measure of my day's work.
Another example is the Export plugin, which lets you select say,
'@work', so you can export a list of tasks completed for the past week.
The gtcli tool also has some functions which are useful to use on all of
your work tasks, or all your personal tasks.  I think as more and more
features get added they'll also build on the assumption that one's tasks
are organized via tags in a tag hierarchy of some fashion.

** Changed in: gtg
       Status: New => Triaged

** Summary changed:

- Different set of tasks per context/category
+ Introductory task set should suggest organizing tasks in a tag hierarchy

** Description changed:

- I would like to be able to group my tasks per category. Take a look at
- "gtodo" - it's the list of categories on the bottom-left side of the
- windows there.
+ [Problem]
+ It's not evident to newbies how best to organize their tasks.  The default set of tasks on initial start up do suggest using tags, but don't suggest much about tag hierarchies.  However, the tool is sort of designed with this organizational scheme in mind.
+ 
+ So even if it's not the *only* way to organize tasks in gtg, perhaps gtg
+ could be more explicit in suggesting it.  It could help reduce some of
+ the confusion and impedance mismatch we see from people who are still
+ getting up to speed with the tool and have progressed beyond the "simple
+ shopping list" stage to where they need deeper organization.
+ 
+ [Original Report]
+ I would like to be able to group my tasks per category. Take a look at "gtodo" - it's the list of categories on the bottom-left side of the windows there.
  
  Example:
  
  - "Household" category: vacuuming the appartment, buying cat food, painting walls, paying taxes
  - "Open-source projects" category: fixing bugs in GTD, submitting Firefox extension, answering user requests
  - "Work" category: repair the UPS, tidy up the server room, replace faulty patch cable in conference room
  
  That way I could just switch to the right context and would just see
  tasks that belong to this context. Currently I see all the householding
  tasks at work which doesn't help because I'm kilometers away.

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Introductory task set should suggest organizing tasks in a tag hierarchy
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Bug description:
[Problem]
It's not evident to newbies how best to organize their tasks.  The default set of tasks on initial start up do suggest using tags, but don't suggest much about tag hierarchies.  However, the tool is sort of designed with this organizational scheme in mind.

So even if it's not the *only* way to organize tasks in gtg, perhaps gtg could be more explicit in suggesting it.  It could help reduce some of the confusion and impedance mismatch we see from people who are still getting up to speed with the tool and have progressed beyond the "simple shopping list" stage to where they need deeper organization.

[Original Report]
I would like to be able to group my tasks per category. Take a look at "gtodo" - it's the list of categories on the bottom-left side of the windows there.

Example:

- "Household" category: vacuuming the appartment, buying cat food, painting walls, paying taxes
- "Open-source projects" category: fixing bugs in GTD, submitting Firefox extension, answering user requests
- "Work" category: repair the UPS, tidy up the server room, replace faulty patch cable in conference room

That way I could just switch to the right context and would just see tasks that belong to this context. Currently I see all the householding tasks at work which doesn't help because I'm kilometers away.