Hi Everyone, I have been using MonkeyGTD for about 3 months now, and I think that it is a fantastic program. I really like it, along with the flexibility that is provided with TiddlySpot.
I have a few suggestions that I thought that I would pass along. I don't know how hard or easy some of these would be to implement. I have programmed before, but not with Javascript, so I don't know how much help I would be. Here they are...................... 1. I tend to try and keep the action / task names short (ie: tiddly title) and add extra information as a comment. Personally, I would find it very helpful if there was a way to indicate that a task has a comment, or rather additional information. Something along the lines with the [P] option that you currently have in place for any associated project. What would be even better, although I don't know if it's possible, is to also have it that if you hover over the note indicator (say [N] for Note) that as a tool tip it would display the comment (saving you having to open the task just to read the comment). 2. I have used other GTD systems before, none of them fully meeting my needs, but some of them did have neat features which I though that I would also pass on. The first one, which is somewhat like the ticklers, is to have the ability to hide an action. I tend to have a lot of actions / tasks (like most people I am sure), and I found it very useful to be able to narrow down, or shorten my list of actions that I was looking at. For example, I may have an action that I need to do, but I can't do it for two days because I am just too swamped, so it would be really good to have it disappear for two days so I don't need to think about it. I know that you can do the same thing by converting back and forth between actions and ticklers, but I tend to reserve those for important, must do today items (ticklers), where as this is simply meant to reduce the clutter. It's not that I *need* to complete the action in two days, but rather I don't even want to look at it for two days. I just found that it reduces the length of my action lists, and lets me concentrate more on what to do *today*. I was thinking of something along the lines that if you look at any of the genreal views such as Next Actions, Next & Waiting, Starred, etc... that any action that was hidden wouldn't appear. But if selected an actual context for example, or project, then it would show all actions regardless of whether they are hidden or not (you would need a way to unhide actions before they are to appear for example). Again, having an [H] indicator would be good to show which items are currently hidden. It would also be good to have a quick way to hide the action, like you do for ticklers, where you have quick options for tomorrow, next week, next month, etc... I find that it's not so much that you need to hide until a certain date (usually that's better for ticklers), but rather I can't deal with this till next week, or next month, etc... 3. The final option, which I think would be hard to implement, but would be awesome, deals with projects. Typically you setup a project for a small task (nothing too big). You end up with a list of 10 actions that need to be done, but as is usually the case with projects, the tasks tend to be sequential. You can't do action 2 until action 1 is done, etc... The problem is, when you look at the list of Actions, or Actions & Waiting Actions -- you will see the list of 10 actions to complete, along with the rest of your other actions (which have nothing to do with the project). But really, it's not the 10 actions that need to be done, it's just the project, or next action of the project that needs to be done. What I have seen before, is where you have a bunch of actions associated with a project, but only the next action (in a pre-defined order) would appear on any of the views. Then when that task is completed, the next action on the list would be displayed. Again, this would allow you to deal with just the project per se, and not everything to do with the project. You could set it up where as all actions / tasks appear on the project view, but only the next action on the general views (ie: Context, Next Actions, Next & Waiting Actions). Anyways, just a couple of suggestions for you. I have programmed on and off for years (mostly as a hobbyist), but I have not really done anything with Javascript before. I would offer to help with any of these suggestions, but I am not even sure where I would begin. Either way, thanks for all your hard work. I think that MonkeyGTD is awesome and that you have done a really, really great job. Hugh, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GTD-TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
