Graham said: >>>>>>
As a group, we tend towards: • iCal (Mac OS X 10.5.7) • Lightning (in Thunderbird on Windows XP or Linux). Mail (Mac OS X 10.5.7), Sunbird and other applications work with Chandler Hub, and present tasks in isolation, but iCal and Lightning are preferred. <<<<<< Ah, I see. >From what you say I presume that you have little or no need of Chandler Desktop, other than checking the triage status of notes from time to time. If I understand you correctly you are using iCal to see your events and Sunbird et al as task list managers. On the other hand I have been seduced into using Chandler as my only workflow package. I approached it with the aim of abandoning Google Calendar and Airset (which I have done) and abandoning Remember The Milk (which I have done), in favour of the single workflow process that is described in the Chandler vision page. It is working well so far, but I am coming up against the issues I have been outlining here - some to do with quirks in Chandler's interface and some to do with my need to adjust my daily practices to those quirks. So from my perspective having a fourth view along the top called Unstarred would make perfect sense. >*< --- what, in other people's minds, turns a note into a Task, >**< * >I treat the two as equal. Ah, I don't, as I explained earlier. For me a note is a note; a task is a note that has been scheduled (ie given a date) and an event is a note that has been calendared (ie given a date, a start time and an end time). Thi is based on my understanding of the original vision of Chandler, and I have been trying to fit that vision into the UI of Chandler Desktop. If notes are not different from Tasks then you have to keep notes outside Chandler. As an example, in RTM I created a task-list and planned a tentative project, task by task, without knowing when, I would actually be able to do it. These were all effectively notes, which I turned into tasks when I found a slot into which I could schedule the project. A couple of other points relating to my use of Chandler. 1. These seems no way to view the calendar without one of the collections being active. I find this distracting when I am looking through the weekly view trying to find a time to see someone. I have therefore created a dummy collection called "Deselect All" which I keep at the bottom of the collection list. Clicking on this deslects all the other collections and effectively gives me an unselected view of the calendar. Is there somewhere to click to deslélect everything, or is this a missing feature? 2. It would be nice if the location field in the Detail Window was more prominent. It would also be very nice if it was a drop-doen list, so that it was easier to enter a familar location. 3. It would be nice if there was a way to duplicate an entry in the calendar. I know that this has been mentioned in bugzilla, and been the subject of long discussions, but I am adding my vote in favour of it. I want to be able to alt-drag (or some modifier-drag) an event and have a duplicate follow the mouse. If "Take daughter to school" always takes 45 minutes, always has the same location, but is NOT always at the same time every day, then I want to be able to drag and drop to duplcate it and place it where it should go. Having said all this, I am happily using Chandler as my only calendar/task list/planning application and keeping three computers in sync with each other too. Its working for me so far :) Owen -- www.owenkelly.net www.marinetta.org.
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