Wow, Graham. Great ideas. You are very creative. The 2nd mock-up even looks Time Machine-y. ;)
A few thoughts: -Agree that a work or appt "density" such as this would be useful to many. -One minor inefficiency with my use of Chandler is when switching scopes. It would be nice if the UI would allow switch back and forth from multi-week to more detailed views. Esp. since this seems to reset as different collections are selected. So... Perhaps with such a graphical analog view, additional info could be displayed by hovering or a bidirectional click-to-zoom feature could be considered? -It would be nice to add a graphic representation of unscheduled tasks. Perhaps items could be given weight based on how long it has been since they were entered, # of times deferred, etc (there may be better ways of capturing implicit importance or age as well). Then they could be displayed in another color or overlaid in some manner to indicate an implicit pending workload. Just a thought, but I think a lot of psychic energy is expended worrying about what is drifting around in the virtual "Later" (a point David Allen addresses as a problem with the GTD methodology). -Most of all, I think "optimal" or intuitive may be somewhat user-dependent. If there is any way to introduce ideas like this as swappable plug-ins, I suspect it would allow most fruitful development without all needing to agree on one way to do it. This is probably obvious to you, but I do not know enough re: the architecture of Chandler to know if this would introduce too much coding complexity or instability. Lord knows we need less of the latter! ;) Again, very thought-provoking! Best, David ------ Forwarded Message From: <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:00:01 -0700 To: <[email protected]> Subject: chandler-users Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1 ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Graham Perrin <[email protected]> Subject: [chandler-users] A blank canvas, a bird's eye view To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Borrowing from <http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ScreenShots> and very hastily thrown together: 1. consider the heights of the blue bars in the mini calendar, signinfiying activity ... flagposts, if you like: http://n2.nabble.com/file/n3007748/mini.jpg 2. take the summary table, tip it sideways, lose all the text, ignore all things that are done 3. two end points: now, later 4. between those end points: something more, if you like ... whatever suits you, don't worry about their names 5. an idea: http://n2.nabble.com/file/n3007748/birdseye.jpg I'm not sure what to call it, but it's like a bird's eye view. The strips of green and amber, left to right, need not be fixed width. In the midst of green and amber there might be glints of gold (stars) and red (conflicts). You might like a Chandler to present the strips with bulges (with or without flagposts) and gaps. I might click a button that allows my preferred order of collections to be shuffled by this Chandler, temporarily, according to blue dots, bulges, gaps, stars etc.. None of that to replace the summary table that we already have, but it's the sort of thing that I'd like to play with. How would you sketch a bird's eye view to suit you, to suit your organisation? What would you do with a blank canvas? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/A-blank-canvas%2C-a-bird%27s-eye-view-tp3007748p3007748 .html Sent from the Chandler users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------ End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
