Suggestions for smoother behavior through out the app for managing our life

[BenByes]

This is around the Gtd method, I'm thinking of learning how to code myself, to help with it as it's probably a lot of work : )

Project view / filter the list by parent/s

Why?:

I have many projects and subtopics as tasks and notes (Those items are first class citizens unlike categories that are being used to distinguish really big topics, areas of life, types, keywords etc) and I want to have the ability to view ALL child-items (including descendant-items, such as a sub-sub task / grand children items) in the main list view, so I can view, sort, group and filter them easily.

How?:

1. In the filter tab (in the bottom sheet menu) we'll have a new section called "parents" above the categories section with a tiny search icon next to it, that will lead to a list of all items that have child-items, which we'd be able to choose from, and filter the main list by it. I'd also suggest adding an all / any / none button (just like in the categories and resources section) as well as an all descendants items / direct children only button.
2. In a task / note view, once it has child items, add a button show in list that will open a filtered view of all children / descendants items, a view that will be shown globally in all main tabs - tasks, notes, journals (this is already a behavior like if you press a category chip inside a task / note, only it will apply for child items of a specific task / note etc). we could then go ahead and further filter / sort the corresponding created filtered list (group project by status / show only tasks with a specific category / resource etc...).

Note

the show direct children only / show descendants possibility may also be of use when appling categories filter so if I have a category called work Sometimes I won't tag all items with it but I can create subtasks or subnotes that are still attached to this category, only in an "undirect" way.

'Next action' concept for tasks - predecessor and successor tasks + filter out tasks that are either waiting for other tasks to be finished or they're tasks that ALL THEIR PARENTS are waiting for other tasks to be finished

As the title above says, my idea's perhaps simple to describe but I have no idea how difficult it is to implement, as it's required TASK A status effecting other task/s properties.

Basically I'd suggest marking a task with a special chip has unfinished dependency or something like that, and we'll then be able to filter / filter out by this criteria, and as a result of that being able to follow through our next actions (like robots :)

How ever, what would really be a game changer is if a task will have this chip activated not only if it has waiting tasks (predecessors) but if ALL ITS PARENTS has this chip (child-tasks of other "waiting" tasks also cannot be started until AT LEAST one of its parents is "free").

What is the complete idea I suggest?

So the complete "next action" idea is as follow:

1. Make new "dependencies" fields (for tasks only, obviously it's not for notes / journals) - predecessors & successors, in those fields the behavior will be similar to how the linked children / parents currently work, so we can choose other tasks to connect with, choosing task B as a successor to task A will make task A a predecessor task to task B in task B's corresponding dependencies field, and the other way around too, obviously.
2. Tasks that are successors of other tasks will have an automatic chip called has unfinished dependency or blocked and we'll have a filter option for this chip with a true / false option.
3. Child-tasks that have all of its parents blocked will also have the chip attached to them but if one of their parents are "available" so will be the task.
4. Child-tasks that have all of its parents completed, canceled or having a start date in the future will get a chip paused or something like that
5. Tasks that are either without subtasks or all of their subtasks are finished (completed or canceled) will get a chip like ready action or available task

We could then create a new present combining the following filters: NotPaused, ReadyTask & NotBlocked) that is called Next action and we'll be following our next actions dynamically.

We would also have the option to search for only projects branches that are currently being worked on only.

Further filters and navigation suggestions

1. Show categories colors in the bottom sheet filter screen - As we already have the option to change categories (and also resources and statuses) color, it'd be great to show these colors in the main bottom filter sheet so we could easily distinguish of them.
2. Enhance bottom sheet navigation
   • Allow sections (e.g categories, dates, status etc) to be collapsed and expanded separately for easier "browsing" in the filter tab.
   • Move the presents section to a whole new tab next to the "filter" and "Grouo/Sort" tab, so we can have much more presents without cluttering, and we will also be able to use this tab as "main" (place where all our starts from and we can go switch prestns easily, rewrite, review our work and execute tasks through without loosing track of everything)
   • Allow the presents tab to have custom collapsible sections for presents, so when we want to save filters as presebts we'll simply go to our preferred section and press "save present here". this will enhance our work with presents and we'll be able to group similar presents together (I have tons).
   • Allow custom order / alphabetical order for presents per each section, rather than a sort by creation time.
   • Make the filter tab show flexible filters due to active presents, so if I have present called "Today" and I have 18 tasks within it, only the "avalible" categories and resources will be shown as a filter option in the filter tan, and other categories and resources will be hidden until applying different presents (or just viewing the list without any filter). I would also suggest hidding irrelevant categories from each main section e.g while I'm in the notes screen there's no reason to have the option to filter by categories that aren't really attached to none of the notes because they're belong to tasks only :)
3. Apply current filters for subtasks - Right now we can search within the subtasks / subitems if the menu option Show only search matching sub-entries is set. I'd like to have the same option for filters that we set, ideally in the filter bottom sheet we'll have this option for each section e.g next to categories, dates etc, and we'll be able to turn it on and off quickly too.