Mimi Yin wrote:
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.
I guess my concern with this (that gmail has addressed well) is that
"All my items" will accumulate quite quickly. I have 6 "conversations"
in my gmail Inbox right now. This corresponds to 28 (!) messages, though
gmail's interface keeps me focused on the 6 "topics" by just showing
just 6 lines.
I can easily keep these 28 actual "messages" focused as 6 "current
items" in my gmail inbox...stuff that requires me to take an action,
including ones that are automatically labeled "Parenting" "Triathlon"
and so forth. Its the stuff that I need "moment to moment" and that
works great And it's true, I would like a "Later" section of my Inbox
and have things that periodically pop themselves back into my
"Inbox"/Now area.
However, when I'm done with an item, I don't want to see it anymore
unless I explicitly search for it. Sure it could be in the "Done"
portion of some inbox "all" display, but I've personally found that in
gmail, as long as I know they're in the "All Mail" collection, then I
actually would rather NOT see "done" things on the screen at all... I
just looked in my "All Mail" collection (a rare thing for me to do) and
there are 4385 "conversations" - I wouldn't want to see any of them in
my Inbox - not even the first 10 - it would just be clutter on my screen.
So I guess my question is - if we expect users do spend most of their
time in "All" then what are we going to do with the 4385 'done' items
that they accumulate in the course of a year of intense information
management? If they're not in "All" then where are they?
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.
But ultimately, Gmail's "All" is contains exactly the same thing as our
current "My Items" - all Items that are mine. But as I've shown above,
there are WAY more things that are mine that are DONE, than there are
things I care about moment-to-moment....
Alec
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