*) Trello, or Asana
On May 10, 2013 10:44 PM, "Matt Wilkie" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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