Eddward DeVilla wrote:
On 7/6/07, Rick Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
After thinking about it; I have on occasion wanted to schedule a
checkboxed item into the agenda. This said I'm not convinced supporting
this is a good idea. Does anyone else have any views?
I'm usually for collapsing similar things in to one more flexible
thing, but there is a lot of meaning attached to something being a
todo entry in the outline as opposed to being a mere checkbox in a
list. Some times it would be nice to steal a feature of one and use
it on the other, but the implicit difference is too useful I think to
collapse them.
Agreed. My gut feeling is that they fulfill largely different purposes.
The problem is that I tend to make a decision to structure something
with lists & checkboxes, and later on discover I want an item in the
list to appear inside the agenda.
Duplicating this into an outline is one way to achieve this; but this
presents several problems:
- Your files rapidly become less DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and harder
to maintain.
- You loose the context of the list (i.e. any notion of sequence)
I guess these are the sorts of use-cases/trade-offs we should be
discussing as part of David O'Toole's community writing suggestion. Is
anything happening with this yet?
R.
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