2012/4/1 meg ford <[email protected]>: > 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 :)
Well, we sure don't want to imply that our users perform tasks for which they may be sued. ;-) I'm not an English native speaker, so as far as I am concerned, my first encounter with the word "actionable" was through GTD and task management. Could you (and anyone who knows) tell us if using this term is misleading? > 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 >> >> 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. > > -- Bertrand Rousseau _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
