Agreed, I think I'm just having an allergic reaction to having an
extra Dashboard collection. Would 'All' include NOW and LATER items
as well? I think it should, otherwise Search might get really
frustrating.
If that's the case, then we're talking about having 2 Collections
that would look very similar:
1. 'All' contains NOW, LATER and DONE
2. 'Dashboard' contains only NOW or NOW and LATER
I feel that with open/close-able sections, the Dashboard already has
a built-in notion of 'Stuff I need NOW' versus 'Everything else'. I
have a feeling that most people will have the LATER section closed as
well. Or they're NOW section will be so big that they won't be able
to see the LATER section anyway.
Or to put it another way: I'm not sure that having separate
collections in the sidebar is the best affordance for separating:
'Stuff I need now' versus 'Everything else' (workflow-interruption
issues I mentioned in my last email).
However, I think over time, an Archive collection would be a nice
thing to have (as a way of isolating obsolete stuff.) How hard would
that be? to essentially define a 2nd Trash collection.
Mimi
On May 15, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Alec Flett wrote:
However, I still don't think the gmail model is as different from
your dashboard model as you're describing. The fundamental concept
of "this is stuff that I need now" - i.e. your inbox, and "this is
everything else" i.e. search or the "All Mail" link
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