This is one of the quandaries about Chandler, and by extension, any new thing. It takes time to figure them out. I think Chandlers way of doing things is quite good, but its not immediately apparent - it takes time using it and playing with it. If you try to force it to work more like a "typical" todo list manager, you are going to get frustrated.
I don't know how to let new users of the software know that - we want it to be immediately usable, but the reality is that it has a different way of working with data then most other PIM-style packages. Having spent some more time using the Lightning plugin for Thunderbird, i almost wonder if that wouldn't be an easier entry into using Cosmo/Chander, then the desktop... Although you do loose some of the uniqueness of Chander (triage, etc), you get exposed to the easy sharing of todo/notes/events via Cosmo... Hard questions to answer. j On 25/05/2009 1:04 PM, Graham Perrin wrote: > Some first impressions of Chandler at > <http://chandlerproject.org/script/getIrcTranscript.cgi?messagesOnly=true&channel=chandler&date=20090525>, > here is as good a place as any to respond: > > > >> i really like the todo feature but i was also a bit frustrated by it, >> since i couldn't change the order of things *within* the categories of >> now/later >> it seems a little bit silly, but even within a group of now or later >> things, there's a kind of order... >> maybe it's against the chandler philosophy, but on the other hand i don't >> see what should stand in the way of users doing this if they want to >> > > One answer to this: > > • the order in which things appear becomes more useful, over time; orders > are based on a variety of criteria (with no need to drag) > > • use stars, alarms etc. > > Answers to the writer's other comments, re: e-mail, are well expressed in > the blog. In the Welcome to Chandler areas, we do need to offer an > explanation that's both condensed *and* more immediately visible. -- Jos Yule Digital Hyakugei _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
