I was reading the Dashboard spec and wasn't quite sure about a couple
of things.
Currently, in Chandler we have reminders that are relative to event
start-times. If I understand right, reminders with fixed times could
be applied to any Item, and these are called "custom date ticklers".
(I'm not really so sure why these are more "custom" that the event-
relative reminders, though). Also, when either kind of reminder is
fired, the triage status of the corresponding Item is supposed to
change to "Now".
The things I wasn't sure of were:
1) Will we still use the current reminder dialog? (Some might find it
handy in cases where an alarm goes off and the item is already
triaged as "Now". This would often be the case if you have a reminder
set to display 5 minutes before an event, because events are promoted
to "Now" at the start of their day).
2) Assuming we have the dialog, and it displays an alarm, and the
user "snoozes" it, or dismisses it, is the triage status of the item
affected?
3) If you set a custom-date tickler on a recurring event, it doesn't
make sense to add it for all future events. Do we show the recurrence
change dialog, with just "Cancel" and "Change This" enabled? Or maybe
just assume the user knows what they're doing and just make the change.
--Grant
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