Leveraging categories

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I notice that, at present, Categories appear to a bit “inert”, in the sense that they govern coloring and have a nice label in the sidebar. But it seems that it ought to be possible eventually to click on a category name and focus on it (i.e. see all items in it, and/or hide everything else). The Hide command is appreciated but “Hide Everything Else” would probably be more useful: I think it’s rarer for a user to think “I don’t want to see Categories A, B, C, E, or F” than to think “I want to see Category D only”.
I suspect you probably want to avoid too many layers of hierarchy, but I also think that, for people with a lot of projects, it may be better to have an extra layer, i.e. Categories, Sub-Categories, and Projects, or Categories, Projects, and Sub-Projects.

[edited for greater clarity on Feb 19th]

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Thanks for the suggestion!

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Maybe Area Category Project would be a more friendly hierarchy.

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Agreed. Some of my ‘categories’ are clients, with the Projects being separate projects or sub-projects. Sometimes it’s a Note could logically fit in more than one Project and being to see all Notes in a Category would help find it.

Also, having an overview of all Notes for a particular client would be useful.

So, +1 for clickable categories.