David K. Kim wrote: > > 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. >
Yeah, the unexpected switch from a preferred view (e.g. multi-week) to week view is noted in <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12662> and <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12664>. > 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? > +1 to both ideas. IMO Apple's decision to lose the info pane (comparable to detail view) from iCal was a huge mistake. In a highly responsive Chandler: I'd like the DV to detail each thing over which I hover the pointer, as fast (or slow) as the movement of the pointer. > -It would be nice to add a graphic representation of unscheduled tasks. > +1 See below … > 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). > +1, nice … > Then they could be displayed in another color > FWIW I imagine that some things might be reduced, to greyscale in places, whilst collections are shuffled. Actually, shuffling is not the best word; it implies randomness. Maybe bubbling is a better expression. Already: we're happy for items to be bubbled upwards within the summary table, temporarily. Bubbly blue dots and the like. Then triage, then clean up. Conceptually: we should be equally happy for collections to be bubbled to the top of the sidebar, temporarily. In ways such as this, I suspect that we might view and deal with e.g. unscheduled tasks, without necessarily labelling them in that way. > 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. > +1, extensible Chandler Desktop, Chandler as a platform, and all that. > 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. > Well, I don't do code (sorry!) so that mock-up is nothing more than a concept, unless anyone with relevant skills would like to pick it up. > Time Machine-y. ;) > Ah, I didn't see the 3-D aspect until you said that! The depth was unintended, I just picked one of the available blurs from within Image Tricks software on my Mac. The canvas could equally be flat, with a plain grey background — that would surely be easier for developers ;) If we do add depth, then great things could be done with user-initiated and Chandler-initiated zooms. And bubbles, of course. > Great ideas. > All due credit to Chandler people and alumni! <http://chandlerproject.org/Teams/WebHome> What struck me is, how quick and easy it was to rotate that central stuff 90 degrees and still have a (hopefully) working concept with so few colours, so few icons and no text. The Chandler vision is a great thing to build upon. The idea to strip away most text, to enjoy the icons alone, came quite suddenly as a result of a few things: 1. thinking 'less is more' for the notional 'Chandler triage' application for iPhone 2. recent discussions re: tasks, to-dos etc. 3. realising that I had spent too much time analysing the summary table, wondering how the icons related to the texts 4. half-watching the Google Wave Preview movie, liking the playback idea, thinking 'timeline' 5. Chandler 2 documentation reminding me of basics, including triage as a timeline. Keep the ideas coming! (I have something else up my sleeve, but I want to see a fair number of extra/alternative ideas in the forum before I go ahead...) Cheers all Graham -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/A-blank-canvas%2C-a-bird%27s-eye-view-tp3007748p3009287.html Sent from the Chandler users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
