Hi Folks,

> How about this for an OOTB set?
> 
> + End of Day
> + Tomorrow
> + End of Week
> + Next Week
> + This Month
> + Next Month
> + In ... ( Days / Business Days / Weeks / Months)
> + Custom Date
> 
> + We could add these options to the alarm pulldown.

Adding this list to the alarm menu sounds fine to me.  But where I'd
really, really love to have it would be as a pull-down from the triage
button.

To explain: I find that I never use the one-click alarm feature in list
view.  I just can't convince my brain that the event/alarm column is for
anything but event-ness.  Plus, I rarely want an event for today at 5PM,
so I have to go fiddle in the detail view anyway.

BUT...  Most of the time I don't want to mark something as LATER
(someday, maybe).  I want it out of my focus, but I want to force myself
to assign a date to bring it back into focus.  So instead of going
through all the mouse movement of triaging to LATER then moving to the
detail view to assign an alarm, I just leave it in NOW.  This is
obviously not ideal, I'm just observing that this is my personal pattern
given the UI I've got now.

I'm imagining tweaking the triage buttons to look like:

NOW \/

when you click on NOW, it rotates as usual.  But if you click on the
down triangle, it pops up:

NOW
DONE
LATER - Some day, maybe
-------
LATER - End of day
LATER - Tomorrow
LATER - End of week
LATER - Next week
LATER - This month
LATER - Next month


Oh boy, would that ever make me happy :)

Sincerely,
Jeffrey
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