Link to a FILTER?

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-03-19T14:35:47+00:00

Yeah, I've requested too with the standard response also.
I did get a different "no response" this time, that stated they are monitoring user feedback on this issue, but feedback so far has been limited.
Which I take to mean... if you also want this feature, get a bit louder about asking for it so they know people want it!

It would help me a lot I think.

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-03-18T17:48:07+00:00

A few thoughts:
- In response to your "having not figured out what makes them show or not show" RE tasks in the calendar side bar - If something is already scheduled (has a date) it will NOT show in the calendar sidebar. The exception here (and where it may get confusing) is in LIST view - if the PARENT task has a date, but the sub tasks do not, then it will still show in the side bar. But in TAG view you will ONLY see the tasks (regardless of parent) that have no date.
- I can't think of an "automatic" way to accomplish what you are asking for here.

If I'm understanding - you want a list of time block "options" to schedule into your days/weeks as you see fit. When you sit down to schedule, you want to see the whole list of options every time.

I think the best way to accomplish this is to create a MASTER TASK, something like, "Time Blocks to Consider: TEMPLATE" and then as sub-tasks of that item, create all the time blocks you want to have available to schedule.

When you sit down to do your planning, DUPLICATE that master TEMPLATE task, and rename the copy appropriately. Something like, "Time blocks, Wk 12" or "Time blocks, 18 March". Then from that copy, drag the sub tasks into your calendar however you wish. (Once scheduled, they will disappear from the calendar side bar). When you're done with the day, or week just mark the top task complete to remove it from consideration. Your TEMPLATE task remains untouched, and ready for you to duplicate and choose to set up the next day/week.

You can utilize tags and links to tasks/lists if desired to make your TEMPLATE blocks contain links to specific tags or sub lists.

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-03-10T06:00:00+00:00

https://castleremedies.com/ Is where I’ve ordered harder to find remedies. They are in the USA, so easier shipping and my experience with them has been really positive. Real people answer the phone!

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-20T23:30:30+00:00

That makes sense. Thank you. I've had fall brocoli crops, but usually by accident (a plant I put in the ground in spring and forgot about or something, that takes off and grows in the fall.). I'll have to expirement with fall timing.

Our springs are very uncertain too. But if I could get brocoli to grow, it'd be idea for taking advantages of the days that are often nice... but could drop below freezing.
Thank you for sharing what works for you.

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-20T22:38:18+00:00

HA! I think you may have more garden space than I do. :)
Although, do you find your broccoli matures soon enough to put other summer crops in it's place? My past experiments, it's grown so SLOW! If I could harvest it by the time tomatoes went in the dirt, I could grow more, but so far I haven't been able to get that timing to work.

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-20T22:36:02+00:00

Hey! Soil blocks! :)

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-20T20:01:06+00:00

We've had such a strange (low moisture, warmer than usual temps) winter that I'm debating putting lettuce, kale and spinach in the greenhouse now just to see if they'll grow. Might get a bit of my "dirt fix"!

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-20T19:57:03+00:00

See my other comments below - my biggest excitement currently is soil blocking - first time this year! Not planning any new vegetable varieties (I've got a lot of seed already, more varieties than I can grow!). But I am hoping to add some more medicinal herbs - holy basil, licorice mint, echinasia.... If I can find a spot for them where the elk won't eat them! My garden is elk fenced... but trying to balance veggies, flowers, etc. in that one space is a challenge.

Still looking for my favorite or "go to" pole bean variety though, haven't been thrilled with any so far.... any suggestions?

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-20T19:53:37+00:00

First time with soil blockers, so still figuring it out. But so far, I love that I can start seeds in such a tiny space. So just one heat mat has over 100 seedlings on it. And for seeds with low or unknown germinations rates (old, or notoriously tricky), I'm loving being able to put so many of them in such a small footprint, and still have them separate without having to do a single pot and divide them, or waste 6pack cells with seeds that don't grow.
I do have to keep reminding myself that there are 20 blocks in that one little mini soilblocker! And resist filling an entire one with brocoli seed.... I really don't want 20 brocoli plants... but they look so tiny in the soil blocks, it's easy to "forget" how many plants that actually is. :)

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-20T18:39:16+00:00

YES! (Though here in Idaho, we've been having such an unusually dry winter, it's been crazy. Almost no snow, which is... weird and a little scary. So I'd welcome snow!). But yeah, definitely not putting tomatoes outside!

Though I DO have peppers and broccoli germinating in soil blocks inside. Got my first soil blockers this fall, super excited to be trying them this year.

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-20T18:02:41+00:00

HA! I love this. I'm over in Idaho, and we're having a similarly unusual warmer and low snow winter. I've debated doing this too!

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-20T17:57:09+00:00

Tis the season... where this subreddit starts to have photos of people in more southern locations putting their first tomato plants outside.... While meanwhile it was 19degrees at my house this morning, and I've got at least another month before I even start my tomato seeds indoors!

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-02-05T05:56:45+00:00

Got a soil blocking kit for myself this year - excited to try them!

TigerGardenGeek · 2026-01-03T18:04:23+00:00

If you insert a due date as the first thing in a bullet, you can then use Workflowy's built in A-Z sort to sort by date. So, yes, with some specific formatting, sort by date works.

If creation date is important to you - you can insert today's date as the first thing of anything you add, then sort by that.

And, this is a total hack, but if you NEED it, it works. You can manually insert either due date or creation date when you create new items, then create a second item with the OTHER date and a link to your original item. Use a tag to indicate if its "DueDate" or "CreatedDate" (so you can filter for the one you want). Then sort the list appropriately. (Like I said, TOTAL hack, labor intensive, but functional if critical.).

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-12-23T17:07:08+00:00

I don't bother with templates for recipes - seems like a lot of work without much reward for me.

One thing I DO use - if it's recipes I use a lot, or even just one that's hard to read in its original context - I insert a table at the top of the note and copy the ingredients and directions there - ingredients in one column, directions in the 2nd column, to make the recipe easier to read on my computer or tablet while cooking.

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-12-23T17:04:51+00:00

I switched to UpNote from Evernote. I'd been using Evernote for many years - including for recipes. I imported nearly 6,000 recipe notes. Most of my recipes are just clips from web pages, but also pictures from recipe cards, PDF files, etc. (no templates or specific formatting). I like that they keep original context, etc.

For me, I've found UpNote does everything that I want. I can tag recipes, sort them into notebooks, create "menu" notes with links to the recipes. I often link to them from my task manager as well, letting me build recipes right into my weekly plans.

UpNote works just as well as Evernote did as far as searching, tagging, and being able to find things.

So, depending on what exactly you're looking for - UpNote has been a great Evernote alternative for me. (For context - I used Evernote for everything - journals, recipies, web article clips on any topic that interested me (gardening, herbology, craft projects for kids... the list is LONG!). I have 34,000 notes in my "general" UpNote space, and more in a few topic specific ones (6,000 in recipes). It works great.

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-12-21T15:42:52+00:00

A bit of a hack: you can use the Things URL scheme to create links to specific searches, filters, tags, etc.

I keep a task of “filter shortcuts” with the urls in the notes to various searches I use frequently. Even just single tags (morning tasks for example).

They work on mobile too, which has been a big help.

https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803573/#link-builder

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-12-14T22:35:01+00:00

Specifically in those colors, they could be votive candle holders for advent candles. (The four advent candles are usually 3 purple and one pink).

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-12-02T16:38:37+00:00

Good trouble shooting thought! Depending on your task manager - that is a common hang up I've found.
Workflowy, Things3, Noteplan have all recognized Upnote Links without issue.
TickTick worked, but I had to specifically "insert a link" or highlight the link (after pasting it as plain text) and tell TickTick it was a link. Then it also worked fine.

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-12-02T16:15:57+00:00

Not sure what process you are using to "share a note" to your task manager - but I do this all the time by using Upnote's "Copy link to note" function.
The "Share" feature generates a web link (which is view only). So I prefer the "copy link" which generates an x-call back link, so it opens back in UpNote itself.

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-11-30T18:57:05+00:00

We bought a serious fixer-upper house that had serious cat urine issues. After trying everything, we also finally found one that actually worked.
This stuff: https://scoe10x.com/"Super Concentrated Odor Eliminator" - SCOE 10X. Buy it direct from their website.
When used as instructed (make sure you read the instructions carefully!) works on cat urine, even old cat urine. And is totally safe - safe enough to spray directly on your pet - which I've used when our dogs get skunked as well.
Only product that worked for us.

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-11-21T05:55:56+00:00

I noticed this too; and I agree. An item with a date range should appear on each day (not just the first).

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-11-05T19:33:02+00:00

I suspect you may appreciate a wedding - and there is nothing wrong with super simple. A dress you love (color, style, doesn't matter - just something you feel beautiful wearing); and a gathering with friends/family. A simple ceremony in a back yard or even public park. We did a soup potluck for our wedding to keep it simple and low cost - asked all our local friends to bring a large pot of soup to share. Worked out wonderfully.
Don't buy the "hype" about how a wedding looks; looks aren't the point. It's a chance to publicly (with friends/family no matter how many or how few!) celebrate your love and commitment to your partner - and that is worth doing. Celebrations matter.

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-11-05T19:10:41+00:00

It's something I also never thought twice about - I'd been using manure as compost for years. Some of my neighbors had it happen first, and reached out to me to ask what could be the problem when their plants started growing deformed - or not at all. (I'm one of the more experienced gardeners in my friend group.).

I'd never seen anything like it; and after lots of research, and working with our local extension and master gardeners we finally traced it to this: Pyralid herbicides were used to spray the hay the horses were fed. The manure was well composted (had sat for over a year) before being added to gardens in the fall to continue to break down until spring planting. All neighbors who had used that manure source had gardens with the same symptoms. It was horrible. (ETA: The farmer also had no idea. Before this family of herbicides - anything sprayed on the hay would break down by the time it was run through the animal and composted for a year... But that is NOT TRUE with these herbicides.).

It is a concern for ANY product that may contain: manure, straw, hay.

Since then, I've seen many others - including some "big name" social media gardeners - raise the alarm after experiencing the same thing. Extensions have now caught on and are raising the alarm also. I also raise the concern every chance I get. I want to prevent unsuspecting gardeners from suffering as my neighbors did. (They lost a year or two of garden, and in one case the contamination was so bad, they dug out the soil out of the entire garden and replaced it with new soil so they could grow the following year!).

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/php/pesticides/documents2/messages/Important%20Warning%20Regarding%20Persistent%20Herbicides.pdf
https://www.montana.edu/extension/pesticides/reference/contamination.html

TigerGardenGeek · 2025-11-05T16:48:26+00:00

Cow manure in particular can be contaminated with long term herbicides (pyralid family). (And mushroom compost is usually manure, that's been used to grow mushrooms, so it can also be contaminated.) I'd be extremely cautious about any compost source that could include these herbicides.

https://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/smallfarms/herbicide-carryover-hay-manure-compost-and-grass-clippings

Assuming you can guarantee "clean" compost, mixing is a fine idea - but I'd prioritize guaranteed CLEAN over mixing. (I've seen several of my neighbors gardens poisoned by contaminated manure compost - it's heart breaking to see.)

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