I've been playing around with re-working the detail view.
I think there's a real decision to be made between continuing to make improvements to the current detail view and/or making a more radical move to the 'Nice-to-have' designs we threw around way back when, when we were exploring post-Preview designs.
Here are some mockups: http://chandlerproject.org/Notes/CosmoFloss Short-term goals include: 1. Introduce stamping icons to the detail view2. Less is more! Continue to work on stripping down the DV as much as possible, mostly in the form of attribute labels. + Make sure there's enough space for a healthy-sized Notes field (by default). + Make sure that there's enough room to display all relevant meta- data when an item is both addressed *and* on the calendar.
3. Morphology and Layout: Break up the fields to improve readability. The Addressing fields + Event fields add up to a lot of form fields in a row. Englarging the Title field and inserting it between these 2 field-laden stamping sections gives the detail view a more readable shape.
4. Make sure we maintain the connection between the stamping affordance and the grouping of attributes that are added as a result of the stamp (IOW, the opening and closing stamping sections).
At the bottom of the page is a link to the original PDF proposal for a fancy-shmancy 2-part detail view that appears at the bottom of the window + a mock-up that updates that design with a riff on the 'in- place stamping expansion' we have today.
ALL of these mock-ups are intended to be jumping off points for discussion and iteration.
The question before us is: What's our strategy for 1.0? Iterative improvements on what we have today? OR rehaul DV for the long-run.
Mimi
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