On Nov 11, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Keith Winsor wrote:
Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
Even though I did advocate changing the order to the current "new"
order
(or old depending on how long one's been using Chandler), I have also
had to make a slight adjustment of habit. Maybe one day triage status
order could be a preference. From my perspective, Now>Later>Done
supports better the triaging of new items, while Now>Done>Later
supports
better the marking of items to Done in the moment that they are
that, Done.
Bearing in mind the notion for the future of users being able to
apply their own triage definitions (Soon, Later, Someday, Over my
dead body), would there be merit in having some sort of Done
indicator in or adjacent to the triage status column? It need only
be one character wide, like a checkbox. Presumably, when more
triage states are available, a dropdown menu would be more
appropriate, at which point anything is two clicks away, but a one-
click-and-done button would be nice.
This is an interesting idea. It'd be nice if when you rolled over the
Triage Status button, you were presented with 2 options:
1. DONE
2. LATER (with a down arrow to select from the list of 'soft-
deadlines' we've been discussing.
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359
The Merits of New Mail Appearing in the Dashboard
I think part of my subconscious motivation for advocating the
Now>Later>Done order in support of front-end triaging is because new
Mail items appear also automatically in the Dashboard. In old threads
where this has been discussed, the agreement was to wait for more
user
feedback before making any changes to this work flow. As an
alternative,
I think what would be useful would be some kind of exclusion type of
view filter in the Dashboard collection, for example, All items
except
Mail items, or more specifically, All items except items only
stamped as
Mail. The point being that items only stamped as Mail in my Dashboard
are nearly always items I just haven't triaged yet. Does this make
sense
to anyone besides me? :)
How about making the existing buttons usable in combinations: click
Mail and Tasks, and they both stay selected? Clicking All would
have the effect of selecting all three buttons (or four when the
Notes button appears). Doable?
I think this is doable. Although I think we'd have to wait for an
independent view selector (list versus calendar). Otherwise,
switching to the Calendar view will get annoying because you have to
de-select the app area you were in and then select Calendar.
We could do a first pass at this with shift-click though.
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11360
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