On 5/3/07, Mimi Yin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Pieter and Andre,
Can I ask you some more specific questions about what you mean by
chronological order? (The Date column displays only one of many
possible dates associated with any given item.)
Or perhaps a different way to think about it is: What were you trying
to do when you were reviewing your Triage Sections?
+ Find a particular item?
Yes
+ Review what you had done last week?
Yes, or last month, or a year ago in Sept.
+ Review what was coming up next week?
Yes, or next month, or 6-months from now
+ Other scenarios?
We have logged a bug for revisiting the sub-sort post-Preview. We
were unable to implement the entire spec for sub-sorting: http://
bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8939
FYI: The 'ideal' design according to the spec sub-sorts the Triage
Status column in chronological order in the following way:
+ Sort the NOW section in the order that items become NOW. This
includes:
- When an item was created
- When an item was received via Email
- When an item was 'tickled' into NOW due to an alarm firing or an
event date/time passing
this is a good order, but I would also like to be able to see a list
of all my events in order by event start time because I want a quick
look at my scheduled meetings for this afternoon.
- When an item was explicitly marked as NOW
+ Sort the LATER section in the order of when items 'will become'
NOW. (This is the functionality that has been punted to Future.)
- Stuff that is imminent is at the top.
- Stuff further into the future is at the bottom.
Same as for the NOW section, A sorted list of LATER items in the order
of their START time is very useful to me. Interspersing items way in
the future that have near-term ticklers is also useful, but in a
different context. I may set myself a reminder to RSPP for a wedding
in Sept. that will go off on this next Monday, but that noise gets in
the way of seeing all the events that actually start on Monday that
must get done. The RSVP can slip a day or week or two, but I need to
know that my Property Tax payment is due on Monday, and that I have 8
meetings scheduled.
+ Sort the DONE section in the order of when items became DONE. (So
that you have easy access to that stuff you most recently marked as
DONE.)
- Stuff that you just marked as DONE is at the top.
- Stuff that was DONE ages ago is at the bottom.
Same as above, I'm more likely to be able to find an item by looking
for the date it was scheduled rather than when I did it (which may
have been well before or most likely well after) the scheduled event.
I know when Property Tax payments are due, but may not remember when I
actually sent them off. I also may want to review what I did last
November, so sorting in the order of stamping DONE is also useful.
Different requirements. Certainly not for Preview, but maybe sometime
the user can select which field the sort (and any sub-sort) may
operate on.
Mimi
On May 3, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Pieter Hartsook wrote:
> I find the current sort order of items in the Triage list
> incomprehensible and not particularly useful. Especially trying to
> find Later and Done items in a long section is problematic.
>
> It would be so nice when I've Triaged my list to have the sections
> sort in chronological order (and maybe even have the sections persist
> but allow me to toggle the ascending/descending direction)
>
> Pieter
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