On Tuesday 10 July 2007 17:55:13 Mimi wrote: > > Some issues that come up with this.
[jumping to the final question because my answer will partly cover the preceding questions too] > 4. How do I navigate between a contacts and all the items that point > to a contact and vice versa? There are infinite possibilities here. I imagine that this could work a lot like search, except it would be accessible from the contact itself, for example as an option in the context menu or a button in its DV. The effect would be to populate the summary view with items linked to the contact -- and, just like when searching, the user would have an option to turn this search into a collection. Furthermore, the view would be filterable by the app area, so I could see all items referencing Mimi, or just the tasks, etc. Bonus points for supporting this as a separate kind of search in the quick entry widget, sort of like GMail (e.g., "/ref davor"). > Do you have some immediate use cases you'd like to satisfy? Keeping > track of whom you're waiting for on any given item is one. There's > the GTD @so-and-so agenda context. There's searching for stuff > because you know it came from, went to or had something to do with > someone.... These two alone are a significant chunk of basic GTD workflows, and I'd be a very happy camper if they were supported. > 1. Are these contact groups dynamically generated (include every > person that is referred to by items in this collection) OR manually > pulled together? I can think of scenarios for both. I'm not sure what contact groups might be. I don't think there are any in the "search" workflow I described above, and in general all "contact" items would live in the "Address book" OOTB collection, as shown in Ed's screenshots. > 2. Are these groupings email aliases as well? That opens up a whole > other can of worms wrt which email address to use in which context. > For example, I have 1 contact in both Home and Work collections and I > have personal and work email addresses for that contact, etc, etc. Good question. I imagine there could be a per-collection policy defining the order of preference for choosing different email aliases. > 3. If there is a contacts pane or contacts palette for each > collection, then how do contacts show up in the main Triage Table > View if you're triaging them? Maybe a Contact is not a stamp then, but a different kind of item? Davor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
