To filter only items with (or without) recurring dates

Gonzalo

It would be very useful to be able to filter only items with recurring dates, and conversely, only items with non-recurring dates. For example, to be able to filter out all items whose date repeats every 3 weeks, or every 5 days, or every month, etc… Y también composiciones complejas de estos filtros (and, or…).

LauraH

Gonzalo I am not aware of any way to filter to show only recurring dates, or to otherwise filter to separate recurring dates from “normal” dates.

There are times this would be very handy for me also.
Since there is no option like this - I keep all my recurring dates in a separate document (a separate portion of the outline also works) so I can exclude them by selecting the outline node that does not have them.

(Use case: I use recurring dates for a lot of household chores - things I’d like to do on approximate schedules, but it’s no problem if things are bumped a few days. So I exclude them from my main calendar so they don’t clutter it up and cause me to miss “fixed” things like appointments and deadlines.).

Jerud

I don’t use recurring dates within Legend. Do they have a different “syntax” from single dates? Maybe you could make an advanced filter that looked for the “every” part of the date?

Gonzalo

Jerud

I can’t figure out how to do it, could you give me an example?

Jerud

I don’t use recurring dates, so my idea was just a suggestion to try. Maybe @LauraH knows a trick?

Gonzalo

LauraH

First of all, thank you for your advice. And yes, that is a solution. But I think that in my case it would complicate things a bit, because the recurring dates are from items in areas that have nothing to do with each other, so in order to have them together I would have to mirror them…

Another solution is to tag them, which allows me to filter them in a very precise way. For example: #cc.m.02, where “cc” means “every how many” (in Spanish, “Cada Cuanto”, therefore “cc”), “m” is for months, and the number represents the repetition cycle. Thus, the example means “every 2 months”. With this way of tagging I can filter out all items that have recurring dates (#cc.), those that do it only days (#cc.d), weeks (#cc.w), etc… and within these groups, those that do it only a certain number of times (as in the example).

However, I would prefer if there was a way to filter recurring dates without the need to use additional documents or tags. And although I don’t know for sure, I think it would not be something difficult to implement among the filtering functions that legend offers.

By the way, seeing Jerud’s vote I realised that I can also vote for the suggestion I made, so I’m adding my vote to increase the likelihood of it being taken into consideration (I hope this is not seen as a bad trick, but just a convenient use of a possibility offered by the way the forum works).