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Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » Andre Tries Out the New "Indepe... - 0 views

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Chandler GTD bucket item project list note task to-do VTODO 004250

shared by Graham Perrin on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Andre keeps two items open all the time in separate windows:
  • The first is something he calls a “Bucket” item
  • The second is a GTD Projects List. Andre consults this list repeatedly throughout the day
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • saves me the trouble of having to leave the Chandler item I’m working with, find the GTD Projects List item, and then find my way back to the original item.
Graham Perrin

Bug 12610 - two consecutive deletions of (adjacent) collections lead to AssertionError - 0 views

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shared by Graham Perrin on 22 Jan 09 - No Cached
  • 14. command-backspace (accelerated key combination for delete (Item)) 15. observe the flash of the Item menu — that might be a separate bug; should a command that is placed in the Item menu be effective for something (a collection) that is not an Item?
Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » How do you use the Chandler Das... - 0 views

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Chandler Desktop Dashboard reality 004250 collection item view wish event

shared by Graham Perrin on 25 Dec 08 - Cached
  • the Dashboard purely as a place to collect new notes, an “intake” area
  • collections must be initially kept out of the Dashboard
  • everything that could possibly be worked on right now needs to be in one place. I use the Dashboard to answer the question, ‘what should I work on next’. Every Collection is in the Dashboard
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • 30 going at a time
  • a cross-collection view of all their data where the could process items regardless of what collections
  • what’s new across all of your collections without having to click on individual collections one-by-one
  • Dashboard collection in Chandler
  • ground for experimentation
  • no way to view items that are in the Dashboard but not in any other collections
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 24 May 09
       
      I did wish for this in the early days, but in practice I don't require this type of view.
  • Graham Perrin on 25 Dec 08
     
    Interesting use cases.
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : The Nature Of Tags - 0 views

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tags tag hierarchy

shared by Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Tags multiply like rabbits!
  • Tags make items look like they're multiplying like rabbits
  • the ability to assign more than 1 tag to an item
  • ...17 more annotations...
  • becomes a cognitive quagmire when it comes time to get a grip on the scope of your data
  • ramplant multiplication of items showing up in multiple tag-groups can make a mountain out of a mole hill of data
  • Tags don't actually help you understand your data better
  • hierarchies visualize degrees of separation
  • in Tagsonomies, all neighbors are created equal
  • If what you're looking for doesn't exist in the tag or the intersection of tags you're currently looking at, you're out of luck
  • Without a visualization tool, tags are just as dumb if not dumber than hierarchies
  • 2 kinds of relationships
  • tags are either Related or Not related
  • Tagsonomies are too flexible for their own good
  • Some of the MIT Haystack studies asked users to "tag" URLs they found on the web with keywords
  • many of the users began to feel like the whole process pointless
  • they find it pointless to apply the keywords after a while
  • Tags are too generic
  • The notion of "related tags" is too generic
  • Tags are unable to store important metadata about both our data and the relationships that govern and structure that data
  • Tagged data sets quickly explode beyond human ability to extract narrative and scope from the data
Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » Next Steps for the Task Stamp - 0 views

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Chandler item event message note task to-do VTODO triage star stamp label 004250

shared by Graham Perrin on 24 May 09 - Cached
  • don’t understand the point of marking some of my Notes as Tasks
  • proposal for extending the range of Item Kinds in Chandler
  • re-instate Tasks
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • extremely basic notion of Contacts
  • Reference Kind
  • don’t propose this instead of the Now/ Later/ Done system, but adjunct to
  • enter deadlines
  • see my tasks organized by those deadlines
  • and not necessarily a “to do” item
  • compilation of reference information
  • a configurable Chandler would be the most scalable solution
  • NOTES or REFERENCE feature would be useful
  • keep track of “reference material” that you want to keep around forever, just in case
Graham Perrin

[Chandler-dev] What's our Web Strategy? Web Widgets, The Server and The Current Web UI - 0 views

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shared by Graham Perrin on 20 Dec 08 - Cached
  • rely on desktop users to reconcile edits to items in multiple collections
  • a more sophisticated solution to our security issues that allows the server to understand about items in multiple collections
Graham Perrin

Chandler Project - Welcome - 0 views

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004250 item manage

shared by Graham Perrin on 18 Dec 08 - Cached
  • confluence
  • simple items which can interact and be managed with one other
Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » Laura Garcia says: "The single ... - 0 views

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004250 task to-do VTODO message e-mail event calendar

shared by Graham Perrin on 24 May 09 - Cached
  • confluence of tasks, emails, and appointments
  • simple items which can interact
  • managed with one other
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • separating these items into hard categories with totally different interfaces makes organization more, not less, difficult
Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » What is Chandler supposed to be... - 1 views

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shared by Graham Perrin on 24 May 09 - Cached
  • wider range of tools
  • workflows are knit together via a wide variety of interoperation techniques
  • Chandler is meant to live in the middle of all these tools
  • ...26 more annotations...
  • pull all the disparate bits and pieces of information
  • into a contextualized, personal and shared ’source of truth’
  • the user interface we have today
  • contains vestiges of the ‘old’ way of thinking
  • proceed to lighten-up the app so that it’s a more accurate reflection of what Chandler is meant to do
  • focus on the quick item entry bar
  • the way to create new items in Chandler
  • see the messages you sent/received from Chandler
  • less of a “Mail Application”
  • credibility as a useful product
  • huge amount of effort and $$ we need to expend to be acceptable as a complete email solution
  • trust is important
  • move my group’s calendaring over
  • my own TODOs
  • Hopefully contact/address book stuff is next
  • Mail, iCal, Address Book
  • all separate, all highly functional
  • no clutter
  • the roles of the programs aren’t confused
  • interfaces aren’t cluttered up but there’s a heck of a lot of functionality
  • deceptively simple
  • Enterprise CRM’s are too complex and can only be used effectively when connected
  • fundamental link up between people and events, complex tasks and so on
  • I may be using ‘workflow’ differently
  • a loose framework of usage patterns
  • workflow-centric designs that bridge silos
Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » What makes a Task a Task? - 0 views

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Chandler item event message note task to-do VTODO triage star stamp label 004250

shared by Graham Perrin on 24 May 09 - Cached
  • Star isn’t so much a replacement for Tasks
  • trouble figuring out when to call something a Task
  • distinction between a task or todo
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • substance of the task
  • increasingly blurred
  • what’s a thought *about* a task
  • what’s a task
  • inspired by user feedback
  • starred items (furtively used as tasks)
  • users who regarded *everything* they put into Chandler as a task, thereby rendering a specialized “Task Label” superfluous
  • Modeling “Task-ness” well is critical to both workflow and usability in Chandler so rest assured that we will continue to work through it!
  • Graham Perrin on 24 May 09
     
    Tria
Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » Scoble Follow-up: The Brain Beh... - 0 views

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004250 event who date alarm summary table list display

shared by Graham Perrin on 24 May 09 - Cached
  • refining our heuristics
  • What is ‘most important’ is subjective
  • Message items always display From/To
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • depending on whether the message is Inbound or Outbound
  • Who column always displays ‘Edited by’ when an item has been modified by a fellow subscriber
  • event dates usually trump all other dates
  • alarm date
  • display something even if it’s the wrong thing some of the time
Graham Perrin

Bug 2884 - Drag and Drop out of a table causes subsequent highlight problem - 0 views

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shared by Graham Perrin on 25 Jan 09 - No Cached
  • different results depending on where the mouse was located in the item being
  • not always
  • The highlighted area is usually
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • Sometimes it's a portion of a cell
  • entire cell or set of cells
  • culprit - it has to do with grid selection and highlighting
  • Grid select/highlight problem
  • really hard to reproduce
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : Browser Design - 0 views

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004250 hierarchy

shared by Graham Perrin on 25 Jan 09 - Cached
  • computer file systems
  • book stores and supermarket aisles
  • hierarchical org charts
  • ...57 more annotations...
  • Trees abound in
  • trees prevail
  • they clearly limit us
  • Semi-lattices are non-polar, where do you start, where do you end?
  • Reality and the human brain's ability to grok it are far more complex than a tree
  • dumbing down isn't always a bad thing
  • you don't really understand something unless you can explain it in 5 words
  • Let's improve on the software
  • too strict, too dry, too simplistic
  • brains ARE really really good at seeing relationships
  • visual information mapping hasn't already taken over the world
  • that break the tree
  • browse the same data via many different trees
  • linear doublethink
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 25 Jan 09
       
      Graham: review!
  • stop-motion semi-lattice building
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 25 Jan 09
       
      Graham: review!
  • extremely adept at looking at the same data and reorganizing it into different trees in rapid succession
  • in one file cabinet, on one bookshelf, in one way
  • forcing us to look at our data
  • semi-lattii
  • Challenge: Find balance between trees
  • distorts the truth
  • expressive but often not communicative
  • same data in as many different kinds of trees as they want
  • start at any point in the tree
  • same data, different perspectives
  • rotate the tree
  • visual cues that seemed to burst forth with meaning begin to feel meaningless, random, disorienting
  • easily walk from one tree to another
  • future Chandler may have a richer graphical interface
  • different tree organizations of the same data
  • Overlaying the visualizations
  • composite semi-lattice
  • richness of semi-lattii
  • feed it to users in a way they can easily understand: trees
  • All parameters set in the browser are reflected in the Search bar
  • Saved rules
  • better than limiting users to a single tree
  • better than overwhleming users with a semi-lattice
  • "dumbing down" the data for the user
  • avoid UI shock via information overload
  • present users with the full-force and complexity of their information in a way that is understandable
  • possible, even within the confines of the 2-dimensional
  • "watch" in "slow-motion" or user manipulated motion
  • breaking away from hierarchy and how people used to hierarchies of folder are coping
  • http://weblog.edventure.com/blog/_archives/2004/4/19/36468.html
  • the freedom and amorphous-ness of a search-centric navigation paradigm
  • a little built in structure
  • Dashboard view / triage workflow as a point of entry
  • search to get within range
  • navigate using contextual clues to find the exact item
  • fixed hierarchies present a workflow bottlenck
  • we know what topic to file something under, but we don't know where that topic belongs in the hierarchy
  • pilers never bother to file
  • something new comes along to screw up the hierarchy
  • unwieldy taxonomies with duplication and confusion
  • Sometimes we don't know what we're looking for until we see it in context
  • brain's ability to use environmental clues to remember things
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : Top Usability Issues - 0 views

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004250

shared by Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Remove and Delete mental model
  • Data integrity issues (aka repo getting corrupted)
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09
       
      AFAIR a bug was fixed. Reference?
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 18 Jan 09
  • Spheres (way to group collections)
  • ...9 more annotations...
  • Focus Switching from one view to another should retain focus on the existing record [already reported] even if it would not appear in the new view.
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09
       
      To me, this behaviour feels extraordinarily weird. I need to understand the rationale.
  • drag items from the detail pane
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09
  • anything that requires the use of Alt-keys
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09
       
      Choice of accelerator keys must be careful.
  • and doesn't offer a drag-and-drop alternative, is a problem
  • We need another button
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09
       
      I use: command-F to find, /f command-L for Lucene, /l
  • information between 'sync with self' PCs
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09
       
      I have half an eye on http://www.dotmobile.us/
  • corrupted way too often
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09
       
      Is this not fixed?
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 18 Jan 09
  • starting day of the week
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09
       
      Is this not done? (Related to locale, or choice of language.)
  • Define and clearly communicate what plugins (esp. third-party) can and cannot do
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 16 Jan 09
       
      +1
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : The Element Of Time - 0 views

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004250

shared by Graham Perrin on 23 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Attaching semantics to items
  • organizing data, needs to be a separate workflow
  • separate UI affordances
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • adding structure to data
  • Getting to the root of the problem with user scenarios
  • The question remains: How do people get an eagle-eye view of their data?
Graham Perrin

[Sum] Re: [Chandler-dev] What's our Web Strategy? Web Widgets, The Server and The Curr... - 0 views

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shared by Graham Perrin on 20 Dec 08 - Cached
  • continue to support items in multiple collections in a first class way on the server, which in turn means that the web UI and future web widgets will handle this case elegantly as well :D
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