Hi Robin,
Thanks for your feedback. This is great to see people picking up
Chandler and giving it a try. My comments here under:
Robin Cottiss wrote:
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.
The reminder should be understood as a "tickler" of sorts in the GTD
sense, i.e. at what time the item is going to pop again into action. So
we choose that date (since we have only one column) instead of the event
date. A debatable choice for sure. May be we should have several
columns? Or some display option as to what to display in that one?
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
I think we're using PyICU for translating the time here into localized
time. For sure, it shows 1-24 hours when using a European locale. May be
we're dropping the AM/PM or not using the adequate PyICU formating options.
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.
The "busy bar" is a sort of experiment so your feedback is great. Some
elements here to help you use it:
- The busy bar is computed taking into account all the collections that
show up in your Dashboard. Those are supposed to be events you go to.
- For collections containing events you don't intent to go to, check the
"Keep out of Dashboard" option under the Collection menu so those events
won't clog your Dashboard (and busy bars)
- Note that if you want to go to one of the event, you can simply drag
and drop that event in a collection that is in your Dashboard (e.g. a
"Talks I'll attend" collection). The same event can be in both (as shown
in the "Appears in" list at the bottom of the Detail View) and it will
be added to your busy bar now.
That being said, I agree that much needs to be done with colors and
various experiment with position and width (though we already tried
quite a few...). Not to mention making that display optional altogether...
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.
You get the tooltip while hovering over the icon. That being said, the
tooltip tells you not what the icon is (as you are expecting apparently)
but what will happen if you click on it. Debatable choice again. Let us
know what you think.
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?
It's supposed to mean "edited". It's a moniker for the kind of action
the Who person did: edited (ed), created (cr), from (fr), to (to),
updated (up). It's great when sharing an item (you know that someone
else edited it and who it is) but, as it stands, it's either too much or
too little... Not to mention a headache to localize... Good intention
but we'll have to iterate on that design.
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.
I haven't try so I can't swear but I think that if you set a reminder on
a "done" item, this item will turn to "now" and pop up in your now
section when the reminder comes off. At least, it works like that for
"later" items.
7. What is the difference between triage status done and tick status ticked.
We don't have a "tick status", do we? Anyway, an item can be triaged
without having had an alarm/reminder set to it.
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.
Chandler puts items in the Now section sometimes to bring them to your
attention even if their triage status is not Now. For instance: if
someone edit a shared item and set the triage to "done", this item will
show in your "Now" section so that you know it has been updated (the
theory being that the Now section is where your focus should be). That
being said, I don't know of any reason to have a Now item in the Done
section. Looks like a bug.
I would really like to see Chandler succeed. I really want to find a program
that can manage time and tasks (and hopefully email)
This is our shared ambition :) So thank you for sharing your thoughts
with everyone here. This is very helpful.
Cheers,
- Philippe
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