Hello, I just wanted to start giving some feedback on Chandler before I got too far into the system. I downloaded a checkpoint build about 10 days ago as I could not wait for RC1 but I just downloaded RC1 and re-imported my Collections and Settings.
I have a Product Management background so I am looking at this from a user perspective and as a fellow PM. Here are some quick reactions from my initial look at RC1 (about 10 minutes - I also have not viewed any documentation screencasts) 1. The dashboard view seems to use the reminder date/time for an event. I was confused by this as I am expecting to see the actual date/time of the event. I am not really interested in when I am going to be reminded about an event. 2. The time legend on the Week View calendar is most unhelpful. I cannot tell easily (at a glance) if the time is AM or PM (this is when viewing a blank page). There seems to be plenty of space. Is there some reasoning behind NOT helping the user figure out AM/PM 3. I finally figured out what the little tick marks are on the monthly calendars. I see that they tell you how much of your day is filled with appointments/events. Using just the lines next to the dates makes the calendar look a little messy. I also thought the ticks might reflect the collections but it looks like they aggregate all collections. This might reduce the value of the ticks. I created a collection of web conferences. I have no intention of going to all these events but they show up as full bars on the dates of the conference. It would be nice if the bars reflected the collections were currently viewing. Also, because the bars are to the side it is not obvious which day they are attached to. 4. I was looking for tooltips over icons to explain what they meant. I tried clicking on one the icons on the alarm (I guess) column and it changes the date. I could not undo the change so I have no idea what the original time was. 5. The ed and cr annotations kept distracting me. Unfortunately my son's name is Ed and I create entries that refer to Edward but I kept seeing ed and thinking about Edward! Is this meant to be an icon? 6. The clock/alarm icon has some other weirdness. Apart from not being able to undo clicks I can click on a done item to create an alarm for tomorrow. What does that mean? An I changing the status from done to not done? Of course the done status is not changed so it seems like an inconsistent state. 7. What is the difference between triage status done and tick status ticked. 8. When I started Chandler I am sure I saw a now triage status item in the done section. But now I see that the triage button is a duplicate of the sort by triage column heading. These are very early impressions and I have not noted the things I do like, and I apologize for that, but I wondering if other users are seeing the same issues? I would really like to see Chandler succeed. I really want to find a program that can manage time and tasks (and hopefully email) Thanks, Robin _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
