Add combinational logic keyword rules

[jscottee]

The current version (1.4.7, updated on Oct. 16, 2019) allows for keyword matching and inverse keyword matching, but not both. It would be nice to establish a hierarchy of that activates a certain set of keywords except for when another set of keywords are present.

[camsteffen]

How would you use this feature? It's a neat idea but I wonder if it is practically useful.

[jscottee]

I may have bitten off more than I could chew here, lol. I can think of a very specific use case that applies only to me, but it might be overkill for the majority of users.

For the sake of argument, I often have the word "call" in multiple contexts—either to silence my phone for a professional call that I'm going to receive, or as a reminder to call someone (professional or otherwise). It would be nice to put "reminder" in the title and have Polite ignore that event on my calendar. (I'm a noob and use G Cal events as reminders.)

Generally, we would use it as "trigger when ABC keyword is present, but ignore if XYZ word is also present."

[camsteffen]

I may have bitten off more than I could chew here, lol.

😆 That's okay. I can just leave the issue open for future discussion.

Generally, we would use it as "trigger when ABC keyword is present, but ignore if XYZ word is also present."

So, in your example, what is ABC and what is XYZ?

[jscottee]

So, in your example, what is ABC and what is XYZ?

I'll rephrase it—trigger when "call" is a keyword, but, say, long press on that keyword to add exceptions, like "social". So, add exceptions to individual keywords. That seems like a reasonable iteration.

[camsteffen]

So you would have calendar events with the word "social"? I'm trying to understand this as a concrete use case.

[jscottee]

Correct. In addition, say I have a regularly occurring call with my family (I do) that I don't want to trigger Polite. My calendar event title is "Zoom call w/ fam". Because "fam" is idiosyncratic and does not often appear in other , I would want to alter the "call" keyword trigger to exclude events with the word "fam" in it.

To reiterate, the Polite app is excellent, and there are only a handful of events in which I regularly dismiss Polite as soon as it starts. Adding exceptions would just account for more of these edge cases.

[Skaldebane]

Just sayin', but I'm wondering if this can be generalized using Regex... Is that a possibility? That would absolutely make it very powerful and useful for every use case.