The primary definition of "Actionable" in English a legal term meaning that you can get sued/criminally tried for doing what you are doing, though :)
The timeline approach to simplifying complex tasks is outlined by Brett Victor in this article (http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk). Meg 2012/4/1 Izidor Matušov <[email protected]> > Am 01.04.2012 06:15, schrieb meg ford: > > Also, on the subject of subtasks, do you think it would be interesting >> to have a "Timeline" view where users could add and view subtasks as >> connected to specific tasks? Rather than defining them as a "thing", we >> could organize a larger task as consisting of smaller tasks, and combine >> it with the calendar function (so users would be adding and editing >> subtasks, maybe by drag and drop) along a line that contained the main >> task, and wouldn't have to use separate actions to define when, etc. I'm >> not sure how to accomplish this in GTK, but I think it would be nice to >> allow the user to define many aspects of their tasks simply, treating >> each task as an object rather something which is defined through a >> complicated series of actions via drop-down menus, pop-up windows, etc. >> > > There is a bug/feature request for that: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/**gtg/+bug/495475<https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtg/+bug/495475> > > We need somebody who designs and implements that ;) > > > Can these actions be called "To Do"? That would go along with the >> name (To Do and Task Manager), and the HIG says that strings should >> be as short as possible. >> > > I am against calling them "To Do". Every active task is "To Do" but we > want to say that you can do it right now. In my opinion, we should stick to > "Actionable" from GTD or "Next Action" from other ToDo managers. >
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