Smart lists cannot include other smart lists?

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I currently use 'Inbox' as a catch all for my tasks, including scheduled and non scheduled.

I also have regular list 'Morning Routine' that includes tasks the re-occurr everyday.

I wanted to create a new smartlist that would include all tasks from the Inbox and ONLY today's tasks from Morning Routine. Right now if I include the both lists in the smartlist, the next day re-occurring task from Morning Routine shows up.

I thought, okay fine, I'll create a smart list that only shows todays task from Morning Routine. Then use a second smart list to combine the Inbox with this new smartlist. The smart list does not show up in the list option.

Can you really not include smart lists in other smart lists?

I can't think of any combination of filters to do what I want with one smart list.

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Thanks for the feedback.

Currently there are limits on smart list filters that you’ve mentioned. I’ll keep it on the list to consider.

Thanks!

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Hello and thanks for the reply. I kept searching and came across this thread Explanation of filter logic - and/or/order of operations which did provide some clues on how to use filters. The problem may lie behind my keyboard but I did find it hard to understand the example used.

However, after persisting with it I was able to achieve what I wanted with the filter system.

  • Undated
  • Scheduled (OR 4)
  • No Tags (AND 3)
  • Tag with 'morn' (OR 2)
  • Scheduled Today (AND 1)

This got me to have the list only show tasks that are tagged with #morn and are scheduled for today, tasks that have no tag and are scheduled today, and all other tasks without a due date.

The other thread seemed to imply that the order of filters matters. Is that correct? I think the explaination is saying that one filter would always flow into the filter right above it irrespective of order of operation? Please would the following give a completely different result? Could you please explain why?

  • Scheduled (OR 4)
  • No Tags (AND 3)
  • Undated
  • Tag with 'morn' (OR 2)
  • Scheduled Today (AND 1)
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Thanks for the feedback. Order matters due to which of the 2 filters should be calculated first. You may refer it as () in math calculations. So for the first one,

(Undated OR (Scheduled AND (No Tags OR (Tag with 'morn' AND Scheduled Today))))

The next one seems like something is not properly set. Order can be only set from 2nd filter.

Thanks!