I agree that the workflow should be integrated. But thinking about it
more, I realize there are some serious issues to iron out.
I'm worried about the arrow taking up space. I wish it could show up
when you rollover the triage status cell.
More serious is the issue of where do we display the different
flavors of LATER? In the Triage Status column? That would make it
really wide.
In the Date column? Is it weird to set it in the Triage Status column
and then have it appear in the Date column? A little, but I think we
could frame it as a workflow short-cut: Triage this item to LATER +
Set a Tickler for End of Week.
More troublesome is that we also want to give people the flexibility
to assign a Triage Status of NOW, even if something is 'tickled' for
End of Day. For example, something might be due next Week, but it's
so important, I want to have it in NOW the whole time.
I think we should do this in phases. Let's first try living with more
flexible Ticklers, separate from Triage Status and then see how we
might be able to integrate the two for a smoother workflow.
Mimi
On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
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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