| App is much more stable! Yippeeee. So I decided to try out the Dashboard. Currently I have 5 tasks in my Work collection and about 10 tasks in my Home collection. My Home collection has 3 events. I'm also subscribed to the Office and PPD calendars. Automatic triage back to the NOW section based on alarm dates and start times is neat. Ability to create events from the Dashboard without having to switch over to the Calendar is great. So much more efficient for creating multiple events. I found that cognitively, I had trouble deciding which items were tasks and which ones were just notes. I think that's because I don't have very much stuff in there right now and no email either. Almost everything I entered was a task. Auto-filing based on Triage status makes it almost impossible to triage anything as Later. As soon as I click once, the item disappears into the Done section, which in my Work collection, has a lot of items. I then have to hunt it down in order to mark it as Later. I would say that for this reason fixing this should be a blocker for Preview. I instigated a manual sync and then tried to continue working to create a new item. The beach ball came up and hung around for 10 minutes or so. I tried to quit right after I triaged a task as Done. Chandler hung around for a very very very long time. I force quit and then when I came back, the I shared my Home collection. Sharee was confused about a couple of things: 1. What does it mean to Keep a collection out of the Dashboard? If you're a Chandler user and you use Chandler on your own for a while for task management and then you subscribe to a share, 'Keep out of the Dashboard' might make sense. However, if you're downloading Chandler purely to collaborate with another Chandler user, then 'Keep out of the Dashboard' is one of the first things you run into as an user. You may not even have noticed that there was a collection called Dashboard in the sidebar. This is fine for now, but post-preview, we should seriously consider moving back to the model where absolutely everything flows into your Dashboard and users use overlays to control what information they focus on. 2. What does 'Subscribe as freebusy' mean? I thought I was sharing a list of tasks with you. Also, why is there the word 'freebusy' in the URL you sent me? What can we do to auto-detect freebusy shares? It seems like the sharee shouldn't be the person to decide whether a share is freebusy or not, but I can't remember why we decided we couldn't auto-detect this in Chandler. In yesterdays' Magic URL design session, bcm talked about doing a better job with our URLs, to make them more human-readable, bookmarkable and hide implementation details. That's it for now. Mimi |
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