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I have uploaded a templated based on David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology to the forum. Any feedback would be appreciated.

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This is very interesting. I downloaded it and am going to see how I can include the concept into my UR file. I love the fact that the dB/Method was well documented.

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What the purpose of having "due date" and "needed by" date? Isn't it the same thing? Why use one for delegated tasks and another for tasks assigned to oneself? When I see stuff like this I am reminded of how wonderful a program like zoot is for this sort of thing. What you really want is for actions to happen when you drag an item to a given folder. For example marking something as completed and assigning a completed on date should happen just by dragging it to the completed folders.

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What the purpose of having "due date" and "needed by" date? Isn't it the same thing? Why use one for delegated tasks and another for tasks assigned to oneself? When I see stuff like this I am reminded of how wonderful a program like zoot is for this sort of thing. What you really want is for actions to happen when you drag an item to a given folder. For example marking something as completed and assigning a completed on date should happen just by dragging it to the completed folders.

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Did you ever get your searches to work? I tried incorporating this method into my own files. I started with the Next Actions and children whose names start with @. I then created a search for parent whose name start with @ etc but nothing seems to pick up on that stuff I place in these folders. I then went to your template and tried the same thing and the searches don't work either.

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Did you ever get your searches to work? I tried incorporating this method into my own files. I started with the Next Actions and children whose names start with @. I then created a search for parent whose name start with @ etc but nothing seems to pick up on that stuff I place in these folders. I then went to your template and tried the same thing and the searches don't work either.

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Did you ever get your searches to work? I tried incorporating this method into my own files. I started with the Next Actions and children whose names start with @. I then created a search for parent whose name start with @ etc but nothing seems to pick up on that stuff I place in these folders. I then went to your template and tried the same thing and the searches don't work either.

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When I switch to keywords and use @* it thinks everything in my dB starts wit that string. I am not filtering on any dates in my testing. Not sure how keywords are supposed to interpret "@*". I suspect the search code is pretty messed up.

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When I switch to keywords and use @* it thinks everything in my dB starts wit that string. I am not filtering on any dates in my testing. Not sure how keywords are supposed to interpret "@*". I suspect the search code is pretty messed up.

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If you pull out the "and due date ...." does it still work as expected?

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Currently the @ character is not recognized as an initial character of a keyword, so no keywords will be stored with a leading @ character. Since no (auto-generated) keywords will ever start with a @ character, Ultra Recall ignores it in your search criteria, so your search criteria is actually *.

When a Quick Search criteria uses a wildcard symbol (*, ?, [ or ]), Ultra Recall basically does a Matches Wildcard type search for you behind the scenes (searching all string Attributes and keywords). In your case, since the @ will currently never exist in (auto-generated) keywords, Ultra Recall ignores it. The resulting * search (of keywords), which will obviously find all Info Items.

The workaround for now (actually it isn't so much a workaround as a more specific search) is to change your search to be an Advanced Search with a criteria of Item Title matches wildcard @* . This should work as expected.

We can change Ultra Recall to allow the @ character at the beginning of keywords which will make these searches work as expected on keywords as well...

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Currently the @ character is not recognized as an initial character of a keyword, so no keywords will be stored with a leading @ character. Since no (auto-generated) keywords will ever start with a @ character, Ultra Recall ignores it in your search criteria, so your search criteria is actually *.

When a Quick Search criteria uses a wildcard symbol (*, ?, [ or ]), Ultra Recall basically does a Matches Wildcard type search for you behind the scenes (searching all string Attributes and keywords). In your case, since the @ will currently never exist in (auto-generated) keywords, Ultra Recall ignores it. The resulting * search (of keywords), which will obviously find all Info Items.

The workaround for now (actually it isn't so much a workaround as a more specific search) is to change your search to be an Advanced Search with a criteria of Item Title matches wildcard @* . This should work as expected.

We can change Ultra Recall to allow the @ character at the beginning of keywords which will make these searches work as expected on keywords as well...

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Just jumping in to say this is precisely the reason I puchased Ultra Recall after using it only a few days - responsive developers. Well, that and it's a very useful program

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As far as I can tell a wildcard search of @* for the parents title does no work. Could somebody at kinook confirm or deny this?

Thanks

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I'm not sure what you mean by 'parents title', but this works here:

1) Create a new database
2) Rename the Notes item to @Notes
3) Configure the Advanced Search item to be Item Title matches wildcard @* and start the search
4) It finds one result, the @Notes item

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Works for me to. Now try doing the same search but looks for "parent title" make sure you have children of stuff that has names starting with @.

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