On 5/3/07, Jeffrey Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Pieter,
> this is a good order, but I would also like to be able to see a list
> of all my events in order by event start time because I want a quick
> look at my scheduled meetings for this afternoon.
That particular use case is what the Preview Area is for, I think.
but the Preview Area only works for Dashboard collection and only one
day at a time. If I look at a list I can peruse items spanning more
than a single day and look at items in other collections that I have
created or subscribed to that are not in my Dashboard.
> Same as above, I'm more likely to be able to find an item by looking
> for the date it was scheduled rather than when I did it (which may
> have been well before or most likely well after) the scheduled event.
> I know when Property Tax payments are due, but may not remember when I
> actually sent them off. I also may want to review what I did last
> November, so sorting in the order of stamping DONE is also useful.
> Different requirements. Certainly not for Preview, but maybe sometime
> the user can select which field the sort (and any sub-sort) may
> operate on.
To solve the problem of finding an old item with a particular time
context, might it work to use the calendar view?
Not when the calendar view is limited to only 1 day or 1 week, the
information is not sufficiently dense/compact in the calendar view to
quickly scan a multiple month time span.
I generally find that long lists are hard to work with any way you slice
it. Not that we shouldn't try to make the sort order the best it can
be, but at some point it seems like you transition to a situation where
the calendar view or Find become necessary.
This is why I use Gmail ;-) But even in Gmail sometimes I find it
useful to scan a list of 50-100 items which in fact might be the
results of a search. At least those items are in an obvious
chronological order.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey
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