On Thu Feb 15 09:40:44 UTC 2007, Reinier Balt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 19:15 +0000, bsag wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Like Reinier, I think the icons for contexts are quite nice, but it implies 
> > that there are hard-coded contexts, which I also don't like much. I think 
> > that 
> > most people probably have a different set of contexts that work for them, 
> > so I'd rather let people name their own.
> 
> You could solve this by making the user choose an icon when creating a
> context. You could let the user pick out an icon from a list of standard
> icons. I don't think it should be a replacement for the textual name of
> a context, rather an addition to the name...

I think that might make for clutter, personally (plus slower page loading).

> > I also sympathise with John's view of hosted web applications - I think 
> > it's 
> > nice to have a choice.
> > 
> > The starring looks pretty cool, but again, it depends how it's implemented, 
> > and it would be nice to have a choice about whether to use that or not. I'm 
> > hoping that tags might fulfil this role in Tracks in a very freeform way: 
> > you can tag an action as 'nextaction' (or whatever), then view a page just 
> > showing things you've tagged nextaction.
> > 
> I always thought of a star as a sort of tag. You can attach it to any
> action and the meaning of it is not imposed by the system. You can use
> it for nextactions that have higher priority or just to distinguish the
> hard nextactions from the easy nextactions (low hanging fruit in
> consultant terms :-) )
> 
> (Which also makes me think that perhaps the ability to use an icon as a
> tag could be handy e.g. icon for nextaction or icon for private /
> work-related actions. This could prevent cluttering the screen with
> tags)

Though tags are useful for many more things than marking next actions, so it 
wouldn't replace it, in my view.

cheers,

bsag

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