Shoulda done a "reply-all" to copy the users list when I sent this...
-- Pete
Begin forwarded message:
From: Pete Siemsen <[email protected]>
Date: January 12, 2009 9:47:16 AM MST
To: Mimi Yin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [chandler-users] Basic question: note vs. Calendar
Yes, that is what I'm asking. I'm a newbie, and I'm confused about
basics. When I make a new note in the Quick-entry bar, if I put in a
date/time, I'm saying "this is an event", and I want Chandler to put
it on my Calendar. I don't understand the distinction between a
note with a date and a Calendar event. Perhaps I'm supposed to use
the "/e" syntax, but I've already put in a date/time. I thought a
goal of Chandler is blur the lines between a "note" and an "event".
If I type something with a date, doesn't that make it an "event"?
Chandler's date parsing might have been an experiment, but it's
coolness that distinguishes Chandler from other systems, which force
me to navigate separate minute/hour/day fields, with plenty of mouse-
touching annoyance. My question was: what are the rules Chandler
follows to recognize the time/date? I want to learn them so that I
can create events quickly. Like, does it recognize "Monday", "Mon",
"Mon.", "M", "1am", "1a", "noon", etc. Is that documented?
BTW, Chandler seems to have the kind of documentation that
programmers write. A programmer will list the available menu
options and write "you can do this, or you can do that". Users want
documentation that suggests "you should do this". A slower, much
longer version of your 3-minute video would be great. Also, there
seems to be a lack of standardization of terms. I came across
"triage" in the documentation but not in the GUI. Does "triage
list" == "dashboard"?
Thanks,
-- Pete
On Jan 11, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
Hi Pete,
The date parsing functionality was a bit of an experiment. So what
you're experiencing is incompleteness rather than intentional :)
Is what you're asking for essentially a distinction betwee:
xxx *by* date / time = alarm on a note/task
xxx *on* date / time = event
Mimi
On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Suppose I click on Chandler's "All" icon in the upper left and then
type "test 9:00pm" into the Quick-entry Bar. Chandler creates a
LATER
item, with for "Today 9:00 PM". Cool. Then I go into the detail
window and manually delete the now-redundant " 9:00pm" clutter
(others
have complained about this, no need to more whine here). Then I
click
on the "Calendar" icon in the top menubar. At this point, I
expect to
see the thing that I created, at the time/date that I gave. No
luck.
So I click the "add to Calendar" (why do I have to do this?) and I
can
then see it on the Calendar on the right date, but the time-of-day
part is blank, and it's at the very top of the day. I don't get it.
-- Pete
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