Filter by task Urgency score

[senged]

Hi. I like the idea of Urgency score. Please consider adding this to the FILTER options (it already exists, and as documented is the default in sorting). Similar to filtering by dates or priority, this is the combination of them, so could provide the good filter of urgent things to focus on.

Thanks for your consideration.

[schemar]

Thanks! As a crutch for now you could sort by urgency and use a limit to only show a specific number of tasks. It’s not the same, but maybe it helps.

[claremacrae]

Just to note that I know from implementing 'group by urgency' in my fork, that the the urgency numbers are floating point numbers, like 10.97, 12.35, 11.90...

So I'm unsure what a query on urgency would look like. It would probably need to be able to take ranges and conditions, like for example:

urgency > 10.0
urgency <=  12.0

urgency above 10.0
urgency below  12.0
urgency between 10.0 12.0

So any implementation would need some discussion beforehand about how to express the queries, I suspect...

[schemar]

True, thanks. And how to let users know what a high or a low urgency would be.

[ReticentAdjutant]

True, thanks. And how to let users know what a high or a low urgency would be.

I'm a fan of Excel's color scales for conditional formatting. Might be a less attractive idea for those with color vision deficiency though. I dunno, I guess you could offer hue and brightness options. Not sure where you'd put the color though. Can you change the checkbox itself? Or add a Unicode symbol somewhere?

[schemar]

I think these options are out of scope, for now. Due to limited resources.

[claremacrae]

See also #788, for grouping by Urgency score.

[claremacrae]

There are currently some unresolved concerns around the calculation of urgency, and I would not implement filtering by urgency until those were fixed, to avoid users finding that their urgency filters suddenly needed updating when the calculation changed.

• Tasks with start date far in the future sorted too high by urgency #698
• Calculates wrong urgency score for due date #691
• Documentation of urgency values differs from actual urgency values #753