Search

One of the things we're very proud of in Hiveminder is that every list is the result of some search or another. This makes it very easy to be looking at your tasks due today one minute, and then looking at everything due tomorrow the next. One minute your To Do list is your tasks for your household, and the next you're planning for work.

Pro users can save their searches easily.

(If you're looking for help with the Owner or Requestor fields or the definition of the default sort, check out their individual help articles.)

• Sort tasks by

  Sorting allows you to determine which order your tasks will appear in in your new list. The default is explained in a page linked above. The choices in the dropdown menu allow you to sort by:

  • Name will give you alphabetical order.
  • Priority will group your tasks from highest to lowest priority.
  • Due orders tasks by due date from earliest to latest.
  • Completed groups and orders tasks by complete-ness: incomplete, then complete.
  • Hide until orders tasks by their 'hide until' date, earliest to latest. Tasks with out a "Hide until" will then be ordered in by default.
  • Age orders tasks by when they were created, from earliest to latest.
  • Owner orders and groups tasks by who owns them, alphabetically by name. Tasks with no owner are always ordered first.
  • Requestor orders and groups tasks by who created them, alphabetically by name.

  Sorting by tags will bring the tasks with the tags you specify to the top of list. If you search by multiple tags, it will sort by bringing the tasks with the most of those tags to the top. Tasks will then be sorted by using the tags you entered in the order you entered them. The rest of your tasks will be ordered by default.

• Done or Not done

  This allows you to determine whether or not you are seeing tasks you have marked "done" or tasks that are not done. You can use the checkboxes to see just the "not done," just the "done" or both (which will be all of the tasks you are still the owner of in Hiveminder.

• Accepted, Declined or Unaccepted

  Similar to Done or Not done, this allows you to determine whether your search will include only the tasks you (or others) have accepted, only the tasks which have been turned down, only the tasks which are still being thought about, or any combination of the three.

• Will be done, will never be done

  Sometimes you want to mark tasks as "will never complete" -- where neither deleting the task, nor marking it as complete are quite the right thing. This option allows you to find tasks which the owner has decided they will never complete.

• "..." is and isn't "..."

  Here you can use any of the variables listed to determine which tasks will show up in your list. You can use these fields to get as narrow a list as you might want. Use the positive "is" or "includes" fields to input the information you want attached to the tasks you're looking for, and the "isn't" or "lacks" fields to indicate which tasks you definitely don't want by the attached information.

  If you search for multiple tags, it will only provide you with the tasks where those tags overlap.

• Date info

  The date information will allow you to search your tasks by the date the task was created ("Starting after ... and before ...") and by due date ("Due after ... and before ..."). Only the tasks starting and/or due between those dates will be shown in your search.

• Priority

  This allows you to search for tasks of a certain priority or priorities. Only tasks with the priority you specify will show in your new list.