Blacklisting tags for synchronisation

[Alex Charron]

It would be a useful feature to have. Sometimes, I might want to say "synchronise all but tag X" rather than "synchronise all of tag Y, Z, W, etc."

It would also be useful to mix blacklists and whitelists — for example, "synchronise all of tag X that don't have tag Y as well" or "synchronise all except for tag Y unless they have tag X." I'm not entirely sure how this would be implemented in the interface, but it's just an idea.

[Izidor Matušov (izidor)]

Hi Alex,

this might be a pain in the ass. In your task list you have a @private tag which you don't want to share with the world. You may don't want to upload them a webservice like Google Tasks, Remember the Milk. (The world doesn't need to know that your task #1 is: Conquer the world :-)

What about instead of having syncing a single tag, we would allow you specify a list of tags to sync or not sync.

For example "@school @work !@private" would mean: synchronize all tasks about school or work except private

An algorithm could be like this:
 - if there are no tags => sync all
 - if there are only positive tags => sync UNION of these tags
 - if there are only negative tags => sync all tasks except those tags
 - otherwise sync the UNION of positive tags but no tasks can belong to any of negative tags

I think it could be powerful enough to achieve the goal but also simple enough.

What do you say?

[Alex Charron (classixretrox)]

Sounds good enough to me. I was just tossing ideas out there. :P

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

I like Izidor solution :-)