Sorry in advance for this getting so long.
It would be really helpful if I could group chimes simply under as a task/name, rather than necessarily restricting one group to specific days. Even if that was done by simply allowing Chime Groups to be “nested” into a folder together, as long as I could still toggle them off as one piece.
As an example reason for why this would be helpful is with something like medication. I don’t take my normal meds Fri-Sun unless I need to. On these days I go to work at the same time, so Fri-Sun is one Chime group. On normal weeks, because I don’t take a particular med, I need to take alternative meds as a digestive aid. I take one med at night on Friday, and a different med in the mornings of Sat and Sun.
I can’t put them into the work group because: [1] I can’t disable only the alternative med chimes (for weeks when I do end up taking my normal med) without disabling the work chimes (I can disable it, but not temporarily turn off, and can’t risk forgetting to turn it back on) and [2] I can’t set the Friday night med without unwanted duplicates Sat and Sun night, and vice versa for the Sat and Sun morning chimes.
So now I need to have a “Fri-Sun” (work) group, a “Friday” (evening med) Group, and a “Sat & Sun” (morning med) Group. That’s still not
a huge issue, but when it compounds with other tasks like this that I’m trying to experiment swapping to TTS notifications for, it gets convuluted fast.
Moreover, I need to experiment a little in setting these up, probably tweaking things over the course of a few weeks, and this means that with each edit, I’ll need to be locating task-specific chimes in various groups (and needing to remember where chimes related to this task are stored) if I just plug them in to different days’ groups that happen to work. Not to mention that sometimes my prescriptions change–it’s just a hassle to have to remember where the chimes are grouped.
Even if I could nest groups involving different days into a “folder of groups” and if the ability temporary disable groups was extended to that folder, I could declutter the groups page a lot, turn on and off experimental ideas more easily, and not be left trying to find a workaround strategy for organizing. Right now, by the time I get to throwing in the habit-building notifications, the changing school semesters, and these two above-mentioned things, I’m left thinking the only really sensible “grouping” for me (in the current app) is to have a group for each day of the week, and then make separate groups specifically when I think I’ll need to temporarily disable a chime.
Some other examples:
School Midterms & Finals: no regular lab or lecture chimes (different days/times for those two things, so currently two different groups) and no regular homework-related stuff are needed, so it would be nice to be able folder those together so I could temporarily disable chimes for one week. Otherwise they distract me while I study.
Exercise: I hurt my knee two weeks ago, and I hate being reminded of it with chimes (all kinds of day/time combos with this subject). I’d love to disable these together as a one-click until I got better and could exercise again. I also usually drop the exercise on midterms/finals weeks, so I actually typically get tempted to just disable the app because it’s just too much to comb through before and after test week.
I also would love to set up separate stuff for bulking and cutting phases, but I can’t do something like that in the current app; it would be too much to toggle through whenever I changed phases. (Side note: enabling the archiving/hiding disabled groups from the group menu would be really awesome for something like this, but this is probably a pretty niche need).
Work: I go to work at a different time on one day of the week. If I want some non-worktime chimes, it requires one day to be set as a separate Chime Group from other days, to account for the difference.