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 -- but she's a girl - the weblog of a female geek http://www.rousette.org.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
