Hi,
I have been a Remember The Milk Pro user, and I used it avidly for eighteen
months. My problems with it were that a) I wanted a proper offline version,
and b) more importantly, I wanted my task lists to merge with my calendar
into a single workflow. Clever though they were, the widgets that linked RTM
with Google calendar and other apps just didn't quite do it. I was attracted
to Chandler when someone showed me The Chandler Vision wiki page here:
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/Vision#Design%20Approach
I am now firmly committed to Chandler (and didn't renew my RTM subscription)
because the Chandler vision is by far the closest to what I have long
dreamed of :) My recent questions, are at least as much about trying to
understand what I need to do to get it to work for me as they are criticisms
of the design or implementation. Here are some observations, based on the
recents threads.
1. I now realise that I CAN have unscheduled tasks, and have them sink to
the bottom of the Later list. ('Unscheduled task' in this context means a
note about something that I may or may not follow up at some point. I run a
university project in Second Life. A colleague recently told me about
VastPark. I made a note so I wouldn't forget about it, and I may or may not
look into it at some point, but I am certainly not going to schedule it for
a specific date. That kind of thing.)
What I have started doing is taking these unscheduled tasks and setting a
Tickler alarm for 03:00 on 01/01/2020 - and there they are at the bottom of
the Later list. I can scroll down and look at them; schedule one, move it to
a collection or delete it. By treating 1/1/2020 as the event horizon I am
keeping all the scheduled and unscheduled notes in the Chandler timeline but
in a way that is useful for me.
2. In a previous mail I implied that Starred notes were Tasks and Graham
replied that "Stars can apply to items that are within or without the
calendar, with or without an alarm, with or without an address." I
understand this, and I should have said that I am personally using the Star
mechanism to designate notes as Tasks, knowing that other people may be
using it for different purposes.
This raises several related questions about how other people use Chandler:
--- what do other people use the Starred mechanism for, if not to
designate Tasks?
--- how do other people view their unstarred notes (or don't people need
to)?
--- what, in other people's minds, turns a note into a Task, and how do
you view them; that is how do you see a task list that contains only tasks,
unless the tasks are starred?
3. When I set a custom alarm the default time is 17:00. Is this built-in or
is there a setting that I have not found? Unless I really want an alarm at a
specific time, I usually set the time to 03:00 so that I get my day's to-do
list presented to me as a single dialog box when I first look at Chandler.in
the morning. It would be nice to be able to change this to the default.
I really like Chandler. I have it syncing between my work computer, my home
computer and my eeePC, and as I get used to it, it is all starting to fall
into place. I have already persuaded one collague to start using it too.
Cheers
Owen
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www.owenkelly.net
www.marinetta.org
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