And while I'm on a rant... I'm trying to understand the logic of what happens when I make a new item. I often sit down and 'process' open loops, punching in a bunch of new action items all at once, one straight after the other.
1. I click into the entry space at the top - between Sync and Clean Up. 2. I type a new item and press Enter. 3. This creates an item, puts it on the right hand side of my pane and then highlights the text on that item. 4. I then start to type the text on the next item. 5. Which then overwrites what I've just entered and is not recoverable. Undo doesn't work at this point - and now I've lost the text from the item I've just entered. I know that I can do Ctrl-N for a new item. But when I'm in the 'processing' mode, I just want to type, press enter, type another item, press enter and go, go, go... Ctrl-N requires two hands to make a keyboard shortcut that to me, at least, doesn't seem necessary. I'm at the computer, I want to input a bunch of items/tasks in one go - that's it. Isn't the enter button enough here? Surely I can't be the only person who does this 'big batch-type' processing of tasks being put into Chandler? I know that some items need reminders setting, dates for meetings and stuff like that, but it's not 'flowing' to do it that way. From a batch-process point of view, I just want to type in all the new items/actions whilst I have them in my head, then go back in a couple of minutes and play around with the mouse, changing dates, adding reminders, stuff like that. It's more efficient that way to me. I won't forget when I need to do something, but I might forget the action itself if I don't get it into Chandler quickly enough. When I create a new note, I would prefer it if you could just press enter and then be ready to type the next one. This would mean that the default would need to be returning to a flashing cursor at the top of the centre column and not to highlight what I've already typed. I really don't understand why the default would be to highlight what I've just typed - it doesn't make sense to me that the very next action after I've typed something would be that I need to do something more with exactly the same text... I would understand it if the default would be to go directly to have the cursor in the text box section of the note/item that I've just created. That, at least would make intuitive sense to me because I could add more info if I needed to. I'd still prefer it if the default was to be able to instantly start typing to create another note. If I could make a suggestion, I'd say that the default should be that you return to the top to put in a new item, but that a quick tab would drop you down to the note you just created, directly into the text box so that you could add more info. Does this make sense? Really, I'm just trying to make it seem intuitive and fast. I want to use Chandler as a tool and repository for all the information about stuff I have to do. I want to get tasks/items into Chandler as quickly and efficiently as possible so that I can then actually go and do the work. At the moment, I seem to be a bit hamstrung by the way that the GUI defaults to certain items. Means that not only do I take longer to input my items/tasks but I also run the risk of deleting/overwriting tasks that I've already spent time inputting... And if a productivity software helps you waste time then it ain't doing its job! Start flame-war here. Thanks for listening to my rant. Mark. -- Mark Hayes. _________________________________ e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
