On Aug 27, 2007, at 7:54 PM, 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.
Hi Robin,
The dashboard only displays the reminder date/time *IF* it's a custom
date, not on regular *15 minutes before the meeting* alarms. Can you
tell me a little more about the kinds events you might add custom
alarms to?
Our best guess was that if you add a custom alarm date, that date is
the *next important date* associated with that event. For example,
I'm invited to a wedding on Sept 16th, but I need to RSVP by Aug 3rd.
Aug 3rd is the next important date associated with this event. So as
I'm reviewing my Dashboard to get a sense of all the things I need to
take care of and when I need to take care of them, it's important to
call out the Aug 3rd date.
However, I still agree with you that it's also important to be able
to view events by event date and we've discussed various ways to
manipulate / customize the columns in the table to show just event
start dates.
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.
There's actually a way to make the tick-marks only reflect the events
you want to go to. But the feature is not very discoverable today.
(We're still trying to work through how best to present this idea to
users since it overlaps heavily with Event Status and Free/Busy.)
Turn on the Collection>>Keep out of Dashboard menu item and all the
events in that collection will be excluded from the mini-calendar.
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?
Are you sharing your collections with anybody else or sent/received
email? The cr/ed notation should only appear when the user is trying
to collaborate. They denote: Created by and Edited by. If you are not
sharing any collections, then you may have found a bug!
Thanks again for writing up all this feedback!
Mimi
P.S. It is worth noting that it's just as important to call out what
you *did* like and what you *did* figure out easily. We badly need
both pluses and minuses in our detective work of figuring out how to
best present new concepts to users.
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