Filters and saved views
Once a vault has a few hundred tasks, the useful question stops being “what are all my tasks” and becomes “what should I do this afternoon”. That’s what filters are for.
Building one
Section titled “Building one”Filter in the Table toolbar opens the builder. A filter is a set of conditions joined by and / or:
Status is not done · and · Due is within next 7 days · and · Tags has any of
work
Each field offers the operators that make sense for it. Dates get thirteen — including is overdue, is today, is within next N days, is this week and is next month — so you rarely have to type an actual date.
Saving it
Section titled “Saving it”Once a filter is useful, save it. It becomes a pill above the table that you click to apply.
A few worth having:
- Today — due today or overdue, not done
- This week — due within 7 days
- Waiting — status is doing, so you can see what’s actually in flight
- No date — due is empty, for the things that quietly never get scheduled
A filter in its own tab
Section titled “A filter in its own tab”Right-click a pill (or a filter in the side pane) and choose Open in new tab to give a filter a tab of its own, named after it. Anything you change there — the search, a condition, the sort, the grouping, which kinds show — is not written into the saved filter. A bar above the table says the tab has unsaved changes, with Save to filter and Revert. Closing the tab asks whether to save them; opening the filter again from the side pane puts the tab back to the filter as saved.
Sorting and grouping
Section titled “Sorting and grouping”Sort goes three levels deep — priority, then due date, then title, say — which is usually enough to make a list feel deliberately ordered rather than arbitrary.
Group breaks the table into sections by status, priority, group, type or kind of file — or by any property you’ve made a column for. Files without that property get their own section rather than disappearing.
Bulk edits
Section titled “Bulk edits”Select several rows and change them together: set a due date on all of them, move them to a group, mark them done. Much faster than opening each one.
What a saved filter remembers
Section titled “What a saved filter remembers”A saved filter keeps its search, conditions, match, sort, grouping — and which kinds of file it shows. “My PDFs” would be a strange thing to save if applying it left PDFs hidden.
Filters saved before that was true simply have no opinion about kinds, so applying one leaves your current choice alone rather than resetting it.
Where they’re stored
Section titled “Where they’re stored”Saved filters live in your vault’s .pellet/ folder, so they travel with the vault and sync between devices along with everything else.