@Jay I’ve been thinking about this since it was recently mentioned. What if the “completes” filter wasn’t grouped in with the other filters but treated as a distinct control – a separate Pane option? Put a few pixels between it and the filter area, style the button using monochrome icons instead of the red/blue filters, and remove it from the filters popup.
- This would allow ANY default-state for new Panes while downplaying the inconsistency of starting a new pane with one filter applied.
- It wouldn’t really take up much more space in the Toolbar since this filter is so commonly used.
- It also means completes could be quickly toggled with one click – without disrupting the other filters applied. My most common filter adjustment is to show completes, so I can add follow-up notes to a recently-completed task.
- The second most-common thing I do with filters is “clear all” – followed immediately by re-setting the complete filter. This makes the “clear all filters” button seem to me like a kinda-frustrating decoy 😆
- Once this setting is no longer a “filter” it doesn’t seem weird to add one new Setting:
“Hide <completes/incompletes/none> in new Panes”.
- As a separate, non-filter control it would also make sense to get its own hotkey, which I’d definitely appreciate.
I don’t use this control the same way I use any other filter. It already gets special treatment in new panes…why not “make that official”?
Interested to hear everybody’s thoughts on this.
