Filters:Organizing

From BarnOwl

One of the uses for filters in owl is organization - exercising some selectivity over which zephyrs you're viewing and which you're ignoring.

One scheme of organization with owl filters uses a two-tiered system of filters to organize zephyr classes into categories, and then assigns those categories to easy-to-type short names.

For example, you might set up the following filters (by putting the lines below into your .owl/filters file) to organize your zephyrs.

#categories
##friends
filter friends class friend1 or class friend2 or class friend3
##activities
filter activities class club1 or class club2 or class club3

#short names 
filter a filter activities
filter f filter friends

With these filters set up, you could simple type 'v f<RET>' in barnowl to switch from a given view to only viewing zephyrs to classes friend1, friend2, and friend3.

Filters in barnowl can be based on much more interesting and complicated characteristics than just a simple list of zephyr classes, but for now, more interesting uses of filters are left as an exercise to the reader.