Hi, all
I just tried out Bryan Stearns's new, new dashboard checkin, and
Chandler is very beautiful. Clicking directly to change triage status
is lovelier than its predecessor (a dropdown) by many orders of
magnitude.
That said, I then went and imported my Work calendar, and some issues
arose, and I didn't see anything about them in the specs/list
archives. So, here follow two ramblings on the subject of the dashboard.
1) I now have 82 events in my dashboard, all with a triage status of
"Now". Maybe this is a one-off state of affairs (i.e. first importing
a pile of events with no triage status from another client), but
maybe it would be better to have imported past events show up as
"Done", and future as "Later"? We do something a little like this
with recurring events with reminders (i.e. treat past reminders as
having expired by default).
2) Some of those events were recurring (weekly/biweekly) meetings.
Changing them to "Done" seemed to have changed all recurrences to
"Done" (maybe this is just a bug). But, anyway, that started me
wondering how recurrence will interact with triage status and
ticklers. Is the following a reasonable outline for how this might work?
- I create an event; it starts off as "Now", and stays that way when
I make it recur.
- I change the status to "Later" (for all occurrences).
- When the first occurrence rolls around (or one of its ticklers
fires), just that event changes to "Now". There's an entry in my
"Later" section for the remaining events. Probably its date shows up
as the start of the first remaining event.
- At some point, I change the first occurrence to "Done".
...
Lather, rinse, repeat. As the weeks or fortnights roll on by, I end
up with a bunch of "Done" events, and the next occurrence in
"Later"/"Now".
--Grant
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