Interesting post. I agree that our actions get us part-way there from a functionality standpoint. It seems to me that the biggest challenge for users of our actions right now is that they are really a very expert-oriented UI. I'd like to see a couple of things done around the actions UI, pretty much in line with part of what Ray writes about:
1. A wizard-based UI for setting up actions (we can keep the expert-mode, but I think we need a guided way to set these up) 2. Real-time feedback on what messages a test will catch, based on user's current timeline (kind of like the Gmail filter UI). I realize that this will probably be difficult and might be performance intensive, so it should probably wait. Though I think it will be OK if we just do the test on the user's mailbox, right? 3. Restore the help text explaining the allowed syntax to the expert view - it seems to have disappeared. Do you think that gets us further towards what Ray is talking about? Ethan On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]> wrote: > Ray Wang just wrote an interesting blog about activity streams / > filters - > http://blog.softwareinsider.org/2010/08/30/mondays-musings-why-next-gen-apps-must-improve-existing-activity-streams/ > > Reminds me of our actions. > > By the way, I had lunch with David Pollack during my vacation and we > talked about a related idea of his - I've been trying to find time to > write about it here but I have been under water doing other stuff. It > is on my list .... > > D. >
