Thanks for starting this Federico! I'm going to be rather selective in what I respond to...
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: <snip> > 1. We add a time-based view of the user's work - a "journal", or > "history", or whatever you want to call it. In it we present files > that you have used, conversations you have had, web pages you have > visited, etc. > > By now everyone is familiar with my old GUADEC presentation - > http://people.gnome.org/~federico/docs/2008-GUADEC/html/index.html , > the Zeitgeist and gnome-activity-journal efforts, and similar. </snip> I'm not convinced that a journal view is beneficial. Why do I need to know which day or week I touched something? Most of the time, I just want to see what I handled recently (trip and slip) and what I've marked to come back to (the grip). I also don't see how a journal is useful for non-recent items. The further ago it is that I used something, the less likely I am to remember when I used it. :) A segmented time based view could also not work well with high or low levels of activity. <snip> > We can start to have "trip" by presenting items from your to-do list > right in the journal, as those items have due dates, anyway. Also, we > can let you mark files so that you'll be reminded about them later (in > Getting Things Done's parlance, this means having a "tickler file" > right in the journal). Think of right-clicking on a PDF, and being > able to say, "remind me to read this PDF in two weeks, because my > homework about it is due in three weeks". </snip> <snip> > * The "reminding" part. Seth Nickell called it a task pooper - > http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/26/let-the-wild-rumpus-begin/ . > The "Getting Things Done" people call a similar concept a "tickler > file". The idea is that you put stuff in time buckets in the future > (today, next week, next month) and you get reminded when the time > comes. We'll have to fine-tune the interactions; this has to be as > simple as dragging a file and dropping it in a pooper-like bucket (and > probably writing a description of *what* to do with the file). </snip> Both the task pooper and the tickler idea sound a bit annoying. I don't want things jumping up at me when I'm in the middle of something. The design ethos of GNOME 3 is that people shouldn't be interrupted. Right now, my preferred solution to the reminding element would be a bookmarking (or 'starring') facility. <snip> > * Present related files to the ones that you selected (Zeitgeist > already has the data-mining smarts to do this). <snip> How is this useful? What kinds of relatedness have you got in mind? > Feedback is welcome! I'd be interested in hearing how you think your design proposal compares to the one that Jon set out a little over a year ago. I presume you think that yours is better. ;) Why? Allan [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2010/04/07/the-grip-the-trip-and-the-slip/ -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
