hank williams wrote: > The word "collection" is chandler specific. Its never explained, and > in the last few years people have gotten very comfortable with the > ideas of tags and categories. You use the word "collection". I dont > see why you need to be different here. It just creates another > opportunity for confusion.
I believe all of Chandler terminology has been thought over many times, and both tags and categories have been thought of as well. Latest(?) idea is to call them workspaces. Context has also been thrown about, and possibly many others. I'll have to refer to the design team for the full history of terminology. As for tag, I don't think that is fully correct. AFAIK one typically first has a piece of information that is then tagged. I think in the majority of cases one starts with items in certain collections, not the other way around. Category seems like an ok word to me, but maybe there are some reasons why it wasn't selected originally...? > The word "triage". At a minimum, you need a roll over explaining it > everywhere you use it. This is particularly critical given that it is > in the main toolbar. For example, saying "Sort By item triage status" > is self referential. We don't understand the concept of triage, but we > can sort by it. Personally, I dont like the word triage at all but I > know that you must like it because its a short word. Also, we all like > to create new ideas, and a new word suggest new ideas, and > intellectual heft. This has also been debated recently. Triage comes from Getting Things Done, but the button isn't used exactly like one would think of triage based on the GTD book. Calling that button "move items to sections based on triage status" would be a bit long winded. We've considered some alternatives recently as well on this list. Triage is also used in other than GTD contexts where it seems to mean sorting based on priority etc. We are not using the word triage to be "different" or "new". > In any case, I dont think you need a triage sort button at all in the > toolbar given that all columns are sortable via their headers. The The triage button does not sort. It moves items into the sections based on status. -- Heikki Toivonen
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