Hi,
Alec Flett wrote:
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?
I'm not using gmail or other fancy tools to handle my task list but I
feel the same way about the "Done" thing. I oscillate between deleting
them entirely or archiving them in some deep folder hierarchy... but I'm
not doing this immediately. In other words, my "done" things still
linger in front of my eyes for a while so that:
- I can fill up my daily log at the end of the day
- can keep an eye on them in case some pop back to life (happens with
emails for instance when waiting for an "ok" for the recipient...)
- have the psychological satisfaction of seeing my temp pile of "done"
grow...
I guess this means that my done list is time limited and I would be
perfectly happy seeing only the done of the current day. The rest should
be archived and accessible in some hidden place as Alec mentioned.
Cheers,
- Philippe
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