Grouping and managing dive logs

[Attilla de Groot]

On September 27, 2020 20:18:49 Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 4:59 PM Attilla de Groot via subsurface 
> <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>
>
>> On 27 Sep 2020, at 15:22, Jason Bramwell <jb2cool at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have my own way of doing this and this is done using a combination of 
>> tags and location name.
>>
>> For me my tag rules are:
>> Deep = anything over 35m (this is just depth that I’ve chosen as my cutoff 
>> point)
>> Deco = any dive with accelerated decompression. Mandatory or extended 
>> safety stops don’t count in my rules
>>
>> What you have suggested (nitrox, mandatory deco ceiling) could easily be 
>> done with tags.
>>
>> My location naming scheme is a bit less consistent and I have a couple of 
>> ways of doing this, whatever seems the most sensible. At home I use Country 
>> – Town/City – Site. On holiday I use Body of water – Country – Site (I do 
>> this if the trip is from a liveaboard where the port of origin is less 
>> meaningful) or Body of water – Country – Town/City – Site  (I do this if 
>> it’s a ‘day-boat’ leaving and returning to port.
>>
>> e.g.
>> Adriatic Sea - Croatia - Krnica – Pascoli
>> Adriatic Sea - Croatia - Plomin Luka – Vis
>> Pacific Ocean - Chuuk - San Francisco Maru
>> Red Sea - Egypt - Chrisoula K
>> Red Sea - Egypt - Giannis D
>> UK - Plymouth - HMS Scylla
>> UK - Plymouth - SS James Egan Layne
>> UK - Portland - HMS Boadicea
>>
>> This works for me.
>
> I agree that I can solve this with tags just like you. It would mean I have 
> to add tags to all my previous dives, it will just cost me some time to add 
> them. I thought it would be nice to have some additional search features 
> though for people that have a large number of dives.
>
>
>> For discontiguous dives as part of the same trip, that doesn’t make sense 
>> to me. A ‘trip’ as far as Subsurface is concerned is a set of contiguous 
>> dives for example some sea dives and some cenote/cave dives in Mexico but 
>> these would all be contiguous. I’d be interested in knowing the reasoning 
>> why you would want to use this otherwise.
>
> I’m making quite some local dives between my trips that I would like to 
> group as “local dives” to have a shorter overview in the list (which is why 
> the trip feature exists). As you can see in the attached screenshot, this 
> would end up as quite a weird list since these local dives are 
> discontiguous between the trips I’m making.
>
> You can add a trip (or multiple trips) manually, and add selected dives to 
> the trip. Choose the dives you want to group together, click right button 
> within the selection and choose create trip above. This should group all 
> the selected dives together. (Not sure if it works if there is a different 
> trip in between the dives, but it should be easy to test out.)

I've tested that part, but then the local dives get added to the trip in 
between. I can create a trip for each period between my actual trips, but 
it would be nice to have my local dives grouped together.

-- Attilla

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