Swift To-Do List Blog » contexts https://www.dextronet.com/blog How to get organized, how to be productive, Swift To-Do List tips and tricks Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:24:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 How to join two different task types (or priorities, contexts, etc) in Swift To-Do List https://www.dextronet.com/blog/how-to-merge-two-different-task-types-or-priorities-contexts-etc-in-swift-to-do-list/ https://www.dextronet.com/blog/how-to-merge-two-different-task-types-or-priorities-contexts-etc-in-swift-to-do-list/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:28:01 +0000 Jiri Novotny http://www.dextronet.com/blog/?p=261 How to join two different task types (or priorities, contexts, etc) in Swift To-Do List is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog

]]> Being organized using every possible priority and task type has it’s merits, but minimalism is also appealing in many cases. If it ever occurs to you that you simply have too many different task types / priorities / contexts or contacts, and need to join two (or more!) of them together, here’s how. It’s really simple!

This short guide will be for task types, but the same approach applies for priorities, contexts, and contacts (used for Assigned To field).

Example: There are two types that you would like to join together: “Triviality” and “Small Task”. After joining them, only “Small Task” task type will remain, and all tasks that used to have “Triviality” task type will have “Small Task” type instead.

Step 1: Go to “Manage Types”

Go to Manage menu in the main Swift To-Do List window, and click Types…

Manage task types

Step 2: Delete the redundant task type

Select the redundant type (“Triviality” in our case) and click Delete.

Delete task types

Step 3: Select new type for tasks that used the deleted type

This is the whole trick! If any of your tasks had the type that you’ve just deleted, Swift To-Do List will ask you for a different type to replace it with.

We will select “Small Task” in our example:

Delete task types

So the result is this: “Triviality” task type is deleted, and all tasks that had “Triviality” task type now have “Small Task” type. In result, these two types are joined together. If no task had “Triviality” type, then it would be simply deleted.

If you need to join together more than two types, then simply repeat Step 2 and Step 3 for the other redundant types.

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