Alec, re: your comment about Triage and Dashboard.
I've always imagined that the 'All my items' was the primary
Dashboard view...precisely because it cuts across all the Projects
and 'Areas of Responsibilities' you have in your sidebar. Mine would
be: OSAF, PPD, Work (intersects with PPD, but isn't the same), Design
list.
It's the 'Runway' view of your life: what you need to do on a moment-
to-moment basis, which is why it needs to include the 'New stuff' as
well...As opposed to the 'Project' or 'Area of responsibility' view,
which is more useful for Project planning or Review.
So I think our notion of All is different from the way Gmail has
modeled 'All'. My understanding is that the Gmail 'All' is just a
giant repository of everything that makes it easy for you to search
all your mail at once.
By contrast, the Chandler All is where we expect users to live.
:o)
On May 10, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Alec Flett wrote:
Plus, I could imagine that where the user really wants to spend his/
her time is in triage, rather than 'My Items' - and I would assume
that there would be some global "In" collection that comes first in
the sidebar, that covers new items in all spheres...
I've recently switched my private mail from Thunderbird to GMail
and I must say I'm a convert! Its interface is really fantastic. I
spend most of my time in my "Inbox" which I try to keep empty.
There is an "All Mail" link which shows all mail messages
regardless of how they are tagged/grouped - all 4500 of them, but I
don't really go there.
(because really I spend more of my time doing freetext searchs for
messages, but that's another topic)
Alec
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