Yes, I think that's a reasonable compromise. I do think however that
the default should be in 'Note-taking' mode with the option to shrink
it down to be just the title.
Jeffrey, Travis, thoughts?
On Feb 4, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Randy Letness wrote:
Mimi Yin wrote:
Jeffrey, Travis and I chatted briefly yesterday about a fast and
dirty pass at a quick entry web widget that users can plug into
their iGoogle homepages, OSX Dashboard, Vista Dashboard, etc.
We decided to optimize for the case where the user wants to
quickly enter a whole series of items one after another. So we
provided a single-line text field where you can enter the title
and then simply hit Enter to submit the item without having to
click on a Submit button.
After thinking more about this, I think one of reasons why someone
might hesitate to dump stuff directly into Chandler and instead
pull up a text file or pull out their paper notebook first is that
when entering information into Chandler, you still have to
'decide' what constitutes the item-unit and many times, when you
just want to quickly dump something out of your head and get back
to what it was you were doing, just that simple decision is a
significant barrier to 'quick entry'.
So I think it's actually more important to more closely simulate
the 'pull up a text file and start typing' workflow in our quick
entry web widget.
We give users a large-ish text field where they can jot down some
ideas, we declare the Title to be whatever blob of text comes
before the 1st line break and dump everything else into the Notes
field of the item.
The downside of this is that users need to manually hit Enter in
order to submit the item to the service. But I think this is an ok
trade-off given that it's unlikely users are looking to optimize
for the rate (speed) at which they can enter multiple items.
Does this resonate with anyone else?
Couldn't the widget support both? The default could be single line
entries, and there could be an option for multi-line.
-Randy
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