Hi Michael, 2009/12/26 Michael Jaeger <[email protected]>: > Hi Frank, > > -- Message from Frank Niessink (24.12.2009 22:45) >> I guess if this is over-engineering it is accidental over-engineering. >> The notes that can be part of tasks and categories are the same as >> notes that are standalone. That's why they all have categories. >> > I understand, but is there an actual use case for this?
Not really, that's why I called it accidental over-engineering :-) And like I said, when the task viewer is generalized to show both tasks and (sub)notes then it does make sense. I can imagine having tasks with a subnote that contains contact information for people involved with the task. In that case being able to assign that subnote to the "contact" category would make sense to me. > Don't get me > wrong, I am asking this because more features may make this tool more > complicated. I do not know if you want to discuss this, but do you (as > a user) actually use/need the possibility for (unlimited) deep > hierarchical structures? Maybe I just don't see the added value... I do enjoy discussing this stuff and I like it that you challenge the way things are. The unlimited hierarchical structures are the "reason d'etre" of Task Coach. I like it that I can always split up a task into subtasks and I often do. > Sorry, I meant: If there is a task of category A and B and the task has > a note which is not explicitly assigned to a category, is the note then > categorizes in A and B? Yes. It has "total categories" A and B. Because the subnotes are not displayed in the task viewer this isn't very visible at the moment, but the same goes for subtasks. If a task A belongs to category C then all subtasks of A have C in their "total categories". Make the "total categories" column visible to see this. > And if so, what happens if the note is assigned > to category C, does it then belong to A, B and C or just to C? Its own category is C and its total categories are A, B and C. Again, check this out for subtasks where it is easier to make this visible by turning on the "categories" and "total categories" columns in the task viewer. Cheers, Frank
