Ah! I wondered why I don't get responses! Thanks. Here it is.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Lionel Dricot<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Shahar, > > Could you post your mail on the list ? It's very informative but I think > you sent it only to me ;-) > > Lionel > >> I immediately think of an interface kind of like mindmaps. >> >> I imagine that it would be ideal for the visual representation of >> father-child hierarchies of tasks. >> >> And I imagine that the creation, listing and editing of tasks >> information would be all from this interface. >> >> Example usage of navigation: >> >> One task is always the 'active' task, which is highlighted and in the >> middle of the window. >> To go to the parent of this task I click the up arrow button. Now the >> parent task is the active task. >> To go to one of the children tasks, I click down. And I use the right >> and left arrows to move between the children tasks of the same parent. >> A click of the mouse on a task is enough to make that task the active >> one and the view travels to it. Right-clicking a task brings a context >> menu in which I can select relevant actions like 'dismiss', 'complete' >> and so on. >> >> Example usage of editing: >> >> To create a child task of the current active task, I click the 'c' >> button. Immediately a child is created and I edit it's name and the >> details in it and type in tags just like I normally would. If I enter >> child-tasks in that task using the '- <task>' format, they get created >> immediately in the "mindmap" interface visually. >> >> Of course there are keyboard shortcuts for everything which will make >> working with it a delight with some exercise. >> >> Tasks which have no children will be colored differently, so that it >> will be easy to spot them out of the rest (these are the tasks that >> can be done now). >> >> The view can be filtered using tags. The list of tags can be brought >> down by clicking somewhere and then I can select by which tags to >> filter the visible tasks. >> >> I think that many neat and usable things can be achieved with this >> kind of interface, like using the positioning and size of tasks to >> indicate information about them like their due date or whether they >> have certain tags. >> >> I'm not a developer so I'll leave the rest up to you friends. >> >> Many blessings. >> > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
