On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:56:53PM -0000, Chris Johnston wrote:
> Would Bug #340022 solve this?

Not really, although there are some conceptual similarities.

What bug #340022 is going for is to display your already started tasks
grouped by when they're due.  Presumably that is to help with
prioritizing work, so you can focus on stuff that's due sooner.

However the idea of laying out tasks grouped by start date is a possible
idea.  But this isn't much different than just turning off Work View and
sorting tasks by start_date.  That's how I've been doing this so far,
but it's really awkward when the number of tasks is high.

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Need way to visualize tasks starting on future days
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543659
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Bug description:
In my workflow I make heavy use of the start_date to organize my many tasks.  
Each morning I look through the list of tasks and identify the 20-30 tasks I'll 
work on that day, and postpone the rest to future days.

However, currently gtg does not give visibility into the quantity of tasks 
scheduled on future days.  So for instance, if I already have 30 tasks that 
will start tomorrow, I don't want to add another 10, so if I could see this 
somehow, and see that Friday has only 5 tasks scheduled, I could postpone to 
that day instead.

I'm not sure what the best way to do this visualization though.  A few ideas 
spring to mind. First idea: There could be a simple bar chart which can be 
displayed in a tab where the closed task pane is now, which shows # closed 
tasks for the past week, and # task starting for the upcoming week.  Second 
idea:  A ribbon atop the screen sort of like f-spot shows # tasks each day for 
the next week.  Third idea: Buttons to the right of the 'Work View' button for 
each day of the week which also include the number of tasks starting that day 
(and click on the buttons to see what tasks are scheduled).

The third idea is probably the ugliest but also the easiest implement and most 
functional.  The ribbon is probably prettiest but may be a considerable amount 
of work to do.  The second idea fits closely to some stuff I'm working on 
currently and what I'll probably end up doing for myself, if no one else has 
feedback on the other ideas.



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