One of the things I found using Opera is that it's *better* than giving
the user the flexibility to choose which collection to send mailing
list traffic to. Instead of giving the user that option (well they
can, actually, but it's not the most trivial thing) Opera just
automatically indexes by mailing list. So mailing list is an
automatically-computed facet that you can view by. Extremely handy for
me with 30+ mailing lists.
lisa
On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:20 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
I'd like to throw a proposal out there to unify all of the various
"ways to get data in and out of My Chandler Repository".
Off the top of my head, I see the following:
- Incoming and Outgoing emails
- Import and Export files
- Subscribing and Publishing shares
- Subscribing and "Publishing" RSS feeds
Can anyone think of anything else?
- What about subscribing to and Setting up Mailing lists. If we had UI
in Chandler for users to "Subscribe" to mailing lists, would this be a
better "model" for helping users understand that they can "filter"
mailing lists into their own collections automatically, the same way
they can have separate Inboxes for each email account.
1. It seems to me that these are all different flavors of essentially
the same user activity: Get stuff in and out of my PIM.
2. Some basic things you will want to be able to do with all of these
scenarios:
a. Specify which collection(s) you want the data to go in. (What are
some usage scenarios for wanting the same data to go into multiple
collections?)
b. Specify more than one "data feed" into a single collection (ie. I
may want to have a San Francisco collection that subscribes to
multiple public events calendar feeds from different sources. I may
have a single collection for all mailing lists I subscribe to.)
c. Specify which "Sphere" you want the data to go into. "All my
personal items", "All my spouse's items", "All my work items", "All
my public items", et cetera...
What are some other common affordances we would want to support?
Mimi
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list
http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list
http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
