Hi Éamon, Thanks for your mail, we certainly value user feedback. Don't hesitate to dump your thoughts on this mailing-list.
Regards, Bertrand On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Éamon McDonagh<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > First thanks so much for this software. I've been through paper, text files, > Toodledo, tracks.tra.in, Thinking Rock, and probably some others I've > forgotten. What I love most about gtg is the flexibility and the speed. > > I didn't know if this group was just for developers, so have just been > reading mails until now. Often I don't understand the technicalities of the > discussion, but I read along to inform myself, and it's heartening to see so > many people caring so much about the product. > > It was only when I saw Thomas Schutzmeier's input being so gratefully > received that I thought to mail. > > I think I can work around the concurrent vs. sequential subtasks just by > listing tasks on the parent (I do it with # instead of -) and then making > them active (put - at the start, move the cursor and hit enter) when > appropriate. > > My problem is more that I don't know if a task is a subtask or a main task. > I currently try to work around this by naming convention, with the top task > prefixed p- meaning project, and t-meaning task. I rarely have to go to more > levels, but I guess I could do t1-, etc. However, this takes manual > maintenance, and a big part of my weekly review is fixing up tasks without > the correct prefixes, and projects left without next actions. > > What would be great would be a way of (in increasing order of usefulness) > - knowing that this task has a parent > - being able to navigate to the parent > - being able to mark task as done and automatically navigate to the parent > > The third option here would mean that I get back to the project, and can > make my decision on next action (often just making the next # task active). > > Currently if I'm not in the work view, and the project has the same tags, > and there are no other active tasks, the project becomes active in the work > view. That's great because once I see a p- prefix I can see it's a project > without a next action. But it's only in these limited circumstances. > > I'm not sure what's possible or not, but I just thought I'd share from a > user's perspective. > > Quite happy to reply to questions you might have if you want to bounce ideas > off me as a committed user. I'm here for the long haul! > > Thanks, > > Éamon > > > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Bertrand Rousseau > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This is surely an interesting way of representing and managing task >> here. You spot some interesting features here (like task positioning, >> etc.) However this is not the direction we've taken so far, and I >> don't think our UI will adopt the mind map metaphor soon. As we plan >> to have GTG being built as an application separable from its GUI, >> maybe some guy could implement such an UI in the future, I don't know. >> >> Anyway, thanks for the ideas >> >> Bertrand >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Shahar Or<[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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 >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Bertrand Rousseau >> Place communale 1, 1450 Chastre, Belgium >> e-mail : [email protected] >> tel : +32 485 96 69 86 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Bertrand Rousseau Place communale 1, 1450 Chastre, Belgium e-mail : [email protected] tel : +32 485 96 69 86 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
