I share your complaint and diagnoses. Not so sure about the medicine, but have nothing better to offer*. There will always be some occasional visitors who won't know the convention. I guess we could show by example and always reply to a new thread when someone does respond in a PT thread. In short, I'm willing to try it out
* excepting perhaps Trello, but Leo doesn't do that yet either ;-) -matt On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > Recent improvements to my handling of email have helped considerably, but > have also revealed problems with gmail and project coordination in > general. Kent has suggested I look into claws mail, but I'd rather look > for other workarounds. > > You could say that the essence of the problem is that Leo doesn't do email > ;-) Email is good (not great) for collaboration, but it sucks as a data > organizer. Gmail labels can only be applied to entire threads. My > unsatisfactory workaround is to mark items that require further action as > "important" (mark with a star). This is better than nothing, but only just. > > To organize tasks to be done *for myself*, I could copy starred items into > a personal .leo file. I could then organize those tasks as usual with > Leo. But none of this would easily be available to others. Alas, sharing > quickly-changing .leo files is not easy. > > Matt and others have been referring to snippets of code in github, and > that's good, but we still have to manage those snippets, and the projects > related to those snippets. > > Project threads are an attempt to work around these difficulties. They > are hardly a cure-all, but imo they are worth a try. The idea is to devote > each PT to management-related tasks for a single (shared) project. The > first PT will be about installation issues. This thread will allow Matt > and I to coordinate our activities. Anyone else is welcome to join, but a > PT is *not* the place to report new issues or bugs, even if they are > related to the subject of the PT. > > I hope the idea is clear. If not, please ask question on *this* thread. > Your comments, please. > > Edward. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
