| Just chatted with Alec a bit and we came to this conclusion: What if users like Alec could hide the DONE section from the Dashboard. The DONE section would only reappear when the user is searching. (All of your DONE stuff is really most useful in the context of Search, especially if you have a lot of it.) I'm not sure we could hide the DONE section out of the box, it might be kind of confusing for your items to just disappear when you mark them DONE, you might worry that they've been Trashed. But once users feel like they have too much stuff in the DONE section, they can hide it. For now it could be a simple View menu option: Show>>NOW, LATER, DONE. Search We also discussed Search. Today, we are already searching the entire repository every time you search. So, it would fairly simple to preserve a Search query across Collections. It's hard to display the # of search results in each collection, so in the short-term users won't get any visual feedback that a Collection does in fact contain search results, but we could try it as a first step in the right direction. Proposal 1. All searches query the entire repository (already going this today) 2. Queries are preserved as the user navigates across Collections 3. Queries need to be explicitly killed (with an x-button) Mimi |
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