| Hi Lisa, It took me 3 times, but I think I finally got it now. ;o) It seems like the real test for whether a recurrence rule should stay or go is: 1. Are there examples of events that people schedule that require such a rule? (This criteria is implied throughout your document); and 2. Is there natural language way to express this rule and do people actually use it in day to day conversation? So something like the 32nd Monday of the year would have a difficult time meeting either 1 or 2. If someone were Your head would have to jump through 2-3 hoops to figure out exactly where the 32nd Monday of the year falls. There are 52 weeks in the year. 32 is roughly 3/5ths into the year. That's 60% through the year. There are 12 months in a year. June 15 is 50% of the year. September 1st is 66% of the year. So some time in August? Actually it's July. There's a reason why we keep track of time passing in month increments. Criteria #2 makes an interesting argument for recurrence rules like 'every hour', every half hour etc. Hourly is a common phrase and while it is rare in inter-personal scheduling, it is imaginable that it is useful for tasks (e.g. Take pill every hour.); and while tasks are not within the scope of this document, I have yet to bear witness to more than 3 people using electronic task lists religiously; instead, much more commonly, people use their calendar to track time-sensitive tasks, especially repetitive time-sensitive tasks (e.g. pay rent, take out the garbage, etc); which means that some sub-set of 'task use cases' should be considered when discussing personal calendaring. Still, hourly is pretty rare, even for tasks like taking pills. Besides, who would want to clutter up their calendar with hourly tasks? And minutely seems completely outlandish in the personal calendaring domain. So all in all, this is a long way of saying that this particular interpretation of 'simpler' is really better :o) Mimi On Jul 25, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Lisa Dusseault wrote: I wonder if this proposal is of interest also from the Chandler design perspective... I've run this by Jeffrey already, happy to hear what others think. |
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