Shucks, Yahoo email somehow fired off my previous
email on this thread before I was finished! Here's
the discussion on this subject now as it was actually
intended!
I'm going to try and describe in more detail just
Frame 1 of the the previously suggested layout for
Dashboard below.
_______________________________________________
I Google On Duty v I
I______________________________________________I
IFolder v Google IFolder v Google I
I_____________________________I____________T___I
I frame 1 I I
I I frame L->I
I12:05 xx email subject x L->I 2 I
I I C->I
I C->I I
I I T->I
I Thread->I________________I
I[> IFolder v Google I
I T->I___________T____I
I I I
I I frame 3 L->I
I I I
I I C->I
I I I
I I T->I
I_____________________________I________________I
Here's just frame 1 enlarged:
__________________________________________________
I Google
I_________________________________________________
IFolder v Triage summary Google I Frame
2
I_____________________________________________I___
I Date To/From Triage Subject I
I I
I L->I
I I
I C->I
I I
I Thread->I
I[> I
I T->I
I I
I I
I I
I I
I I
I I
I_____________________________________________I____
The triage summary status of the selected folder is
included in the mini-tool bar above the frame. The
first line of the frame is the headings of each of the
collumns beneath it. Clicking on the heading would
sort the email list in the frame according the heading
criteria.
Clicking on 'Date' heading sorts the list by time
received. Clicking it again sorts the list in reverse
order.
Clicking on 'To/From' heading sorts the list
alphabetically by Sender name. Clicking it again
sorts the list in reverse order.
Clicking on 'Subject' sorts the list alphabetically by
subject. Clicking it again sorts it in reverse order.
Clicking on 'Triage' heading sorts the list first
according first to Triage status, and then within each
status group, by time received. Previously, I had
suggested that the Now Box items would be on top of
the list, Later Box items next up, then Unfiled items,
then Done Box items. This order was to deter this
list sorting to be mis-used as default setting to
avoid the potential problem Mimi had mentioned, i.e.,
the inadvertant pushing of Now Box items as Later Box
items and the user inadvertantly 'living' within the
Unfiled section of the list on top.
However, another (perhaps better) option to deter this
potential misuse of the Chandler workflow may be to
remove all Unfiled items from the Triage-sorted list
view all together. Hence, when the user is ready to
take action on previously triaged items, they might
then resort the list according to triage status, and
this list would show Now items on top, Later items
next up, and then Done Box items last. With the
unfiled items not even appearing on this view, there
is zero chance of potential misuse of the intended
Chandler workflow.
Similar resorting headings could of course be designed
for the other two frames. For example, looking just
at Frame 2 in larger view, we might obtain the
following layout.
___________________________________________________
Google On Duty v I
__________________________________________________I
IFolder v Triage summary Google I
___I__________________________________________T___I
I Modified Triage Subject I
I L->I
F I
r I C->I
a I I
m I T->I
e I I
I I
1 I I
I______________________________________________I
I I
I Frame 3 I
Here, clicking on 'Time Modified' sorts the list
acccording to this criteria. Clicking it again sorts
the list in reverse order according to time modified.
Clicking on 'Triage Status' sorts the list as per the
same order as in the Email frame with Now items on
top, Later items next up, and then Done items. Again,
the Unclassified items might again be left out of this
list to simplify the triage screen for the user so
that this list sort view is only used when he / she is
ready to take action on previously triaged items.
If Chandler is expanded in future to include Writer
documents in Frame 3, then this frame list view
options could be handled similarly as well.
--Selva
--- selva r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following diagram attempts to sum up a rough
> proposal for Dashboard Level A layout. Symbols are
> explained below.
>
> _______________________________________________
> I Google On Duty v I
> I______________________________________________I
> IFolder v Google IFolder v Google I
> I_____________________________I____________T___I
> I frame 1 I I
> I I frame L->I
> I12:05 xx email subject x L->I 2 I
> I I C->I
> I C->I I
> I I T->I
> I Thread->I________________I
> I[> IFolder v Google I
> I T->I___________T____I
> I I I
> I I frame 3 L->I
> I I I
> I I C->I
> I I I
> I I T->I
> I_____________________________I________________I
>
>
> SYMBOLS:
>
> L - List view tab
>
> C - Contents tab
>
> Thread - Thread tab
>
> T - Supposed to actually be a small cactus icon for
> Collections tab; the T icon under the contextual
> Google search engines for each frame is described
> below.
>
> [> This is the small red pointer I mentioned
> previously which designates that all email items
> above
> the level of this pointer is new email that has been
> received since Chandler was last exited. This is
> important because in busy lists, not all old email
> will be read by the user and hence they will remain
> in
> bold print even though it is not new mail.
>
>
> MAIN DASHBOARD TOOL BAR:
>
> The first tool bar on top is for the Dashboard
> application in general. There are also mini
> toolbars
> on top of each of the three frames. Potential use
> of
> frames are as already discussed (Frame 1 for Email
> Inbox, Frame 2 for combined Memo / ToDo list Inbox,
> Frame 3 in future might be for Writer documents
> InBox.)
>
> In this first tool bar is an embedded desktop Google
> search box to allow for searches of items accross
> all
> three Dashboard frames combined, and the search may
> may include the Datebook app as well.
>
> Also within this first tool bar is the pull down
> list
> for 'Off Duty', 'On Duty', and 'All items' screens.
>
>
> The potential tagging of Chandler items as belonging
> to either Off Duty or On Duty category was discussed
> previously. Each category of this pull down list
> would have its own three frame Dashboard screen and
> the user could toggle between the screens with this
> pull down list. Again, items not specifically tagged
> as Off Duty or On Duty would appear on both
> Dashboard
> screens.
>
> As mentioned previously, the default Dashboard
> screen
> presented on top when Chandler is launched would be
> based on the computer's clock setting which the user
> would program through means of a wizard during
> initial
> installation to specify when their usual working
> hours
> are.
>
> MINI-TOOLBARS FOR EACH FRAME
>
> Each frame would also have it's own mini-tool bar.
> For Frame 1, the email InBox pull down Folder tree
> window is included in the mini-toolbar for this
> frame.
>
> Also, each frame has it's own contextual Google
> desktop search bar so that users can quickly locate
> an
> item within each frame's application.
>
> For the mini-tool bars of Frames 2 & 3, the pull
> down
> folder tool is the usual one used for searching for
> documents like in most word processors where the
> user
> navigates up and down the folder structure with the
> highest category being the desktop, then the C:
> drive,
> and so on.
>
> Also for the mini-tool bars of Frames 2 & 3 there is
> another 'T' symbol which is again supposed to be a
> cactus icon. This is to allow for quick access to a
> possible future Cactus / Tree subapplication where
> users can locate the Memo or Writer document quickly
> rather than having to climb up and down the usual
> tedious pull down folder system to locate the file
> of
> interest.
>
>
> SECOND LEVEL WINDOWS FOR FRAME 1 ITEMS:
>
> There is a sample item depicted in Frame 1 which has
> an email item with an entry time of 12:05. The item
> can be single clicked and its contents then read on
> the Contents Tab within the frame. Or it can be
> double clicked to open up the following second level
> window.
>
> _______________________________________________
> I I oooo I
> I Io I
> I Frame 1 Io Frame 2 I
> I<-Thread Io I
> I Io I
> I I Contents I
> I I I
> I<- T I I
> I I I
> I I I
> I I I
> I I I
> I_______________________I_____________________I
>
> The contents of the selected email item would be
> displayed on Frame 2 of this second level window.
>
> There are no tabs on this frame. However, there is
> the usual eight organizational buttons that would
> appear in all of Chandler's item windows. These
> buttons are as discussed previously and include the
> three Triage buttons, Time Details management
> button,
> Cactus / linking button, Off Duty / On Duty buttons,
> and Delete button.
>
> Frame 1 has two tabs:
>
> 1) One for depicting the email thread of the
> selected message, and,
>
> 2) The Cactus tab for depicting any collections that
> the item may have been previously assigned to.
>
> Clicking on items within the email thread tab would
> display contents of the selected email on frame 2.
>
> Ditto when clicking on items in the Cactus tab. In
> addition, when item title bars on the Cactus tab are
> double clicked, then they could be opened up into
> their own separate item windows.
>
> SECOND LEVEL WINDOWS FOR FRAME 2 ITEMS:
>
> Again, an item in Frame 2 can be single clicked and
> its contents read on the Contents tab within the
> frame. It can also be double clicked to open up a
> second level window. If the memo does not belong to
> a
> collection, then the second level window opened up
> would essentiall be a simple Chandler item contents
> window with the usual organizational buttons.
>
> _________________________
> I oooo I
> Io ^ I
> Io < triaging I
> Io buttons I
> Io I
> I Memo I
> I Contents I
> I I
> I I
> I I
>
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