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Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : Browser Design - 0 views

  • computer file systems
  • book stores and supermarket aisles
  • hierarchical org charts
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  • 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
  • browse the same data via many different trees
  • visual information mapping hasn't already taken over the world
  • that break the tree
  • brains ARE really really good at seeing relationships
  • linear doublethink
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Graham: review!
  • stop-motion semi-lattice building
    • Graham Perrin
       
      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
  • "watch" in "slow-motion" or user manipulated motion
  • 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
  • easily walk from one tree to another
  • 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

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

  • 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
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  • 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
       
      I did wish for this in the early days, but in practice I don't require this type of view.
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    Interesting use cases.
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