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Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : Zero Point One Email 20060508 - 0 views

  • Pull down emails that have special headers
    • Graham Perrin
       
      I don't understand this point.
  • one-time import of an Inbox
  • Proposed Plan
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  • Email support for collaboration workflows
  • DnD from select email clients
  • One-time download of new mail with special Chandler headers
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Is this implemented in 1.0.2?
  • One-time download of new mail from select IMAP folders
    • Graham Perrin
       
      My sense is that this is implemented in 1.0.2.
  • Set up IMAP server
  • allow users to move email from their existing email account to the desktop
    • Graham Perrin
       
      In 1.0.2 I suspect that e-mail is copied (not (copied then deleted) moved).
  • provided they are on the same machine
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Can we more clearly define 'same machine'?
    • Graham Perrin
       
      I see no requirement for IMAP client and Chandler Desktop to be on the same computer. IMAP client at computer A communicates a user-initiated move of a message to one of three Chandler Desktop-specific IMAP mailboxes. Chandler Desktop at computer B performs a one-time download from those three mailboxes.
  • early adopter, metrotechnicals as experimental email users
  • One-time download of new mail from IMAP
  • Basic message composition
  • Required features for supporting collaboration workflows
  • Reply, reply all, forward
  • Send and receive
  • rich text editing
  • draft, queued, sent, read, unread, needs reply, replied to, forwarded
  • email status column
  • Email threading support
  • overall clustering solution
  • stamping communications workflows
  • Features not targeted for 1.0
  • Drag and drop emails and attachments from other email clients
Graham Perrin

[chandler-users] Chandler Losing All Data - 0 views

  • no choice to Save
    • Graham Perrin
       
      The absence of (non-requirement for) a Save command should be explained in terms that are user-friendly.
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  • re-open a previously used file
    • Graham Perrin
       
      The value of the automated and manual routines outlined at http://n2.nabble.com/-td2109816.html should presented in a user-friendly way.
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  • different metaphor being used here with this program, one unlike any i've ever encountered before in using other programs. But what is it?
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Without paying attention to database technologies, the easiest comparison might be with iTunes. Concerning the Save command, in the File menu: iTunes has no need for this, the application simply works. To users, the absence of a Save command is unremarkable.
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  • I was able to restore them one time by using Time Machine on my Mac
    • Graham Perrin
       
      I wonder which file(s) Michael chose to restore.
Graham Perrin

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Tra... - 0 views

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    A most remarkable omission from the reviews on Amazon (and presumably, from the book) is: discussion of standards, such as those relating to CalDAV. OSAF/Chandler Project members made significant contributions to the drafting and setting of standards. Happily, we don't hear companies such as Apple or Google criticising Chandler Project history whilst embracing/enjoying CalDAV. I suspect that - however well written the book may be - a *focus* on a space in time (however short or long) has overlooked the broader value of the Project.
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    I'll rate and review this book, probably some time around Christmas.
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    "Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts, and the greater our ambitions, the more spectacularly we seem to fail. … [this book] sets out to understand why, through the story of one software project -- Mitch Kapor's Chandler, an ambitious, open-source effort…
Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » OSAF's Next Steps - 0 views

  • Chandler succeeds at meeting the needs of users who are tracking ‘knowledge work’
  • Chandler is not oriented around calendaring per se or around a complicated task and project landscape with many dependencies
  • we want Chandler to be more viral. We want Chandler to be easy to explain to others. We want Chandler to be found in contexts where people are already spending time. We want Chandler to be
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  • even more useful as that user pulls in other people to collaborate
  • We want happy users be successful evangelists for Chandler
  • web widgets that might be deployed in different contexts — iGoogle, Facebook, on an iPhone, etc.
  • widgets should be compelling to a new user who does not use the desktop, in addition to providing features that complement the desktop. Eventually, the widgets can be building blocks
  • misperception in the press
  • Being a CalDAV reference implementation is not a priority.
  • the Microsoft product with the most overlap with our design objectives is probably OneNote
  • web widgets (in the browser, on mobile devices and on the desktop)
  • not trying to be a GTD specific tool
  • Chandler’s philosophy is different enough from GTD that it would be misleading to call Chandler a GTD tool
  • Our best articulation of our core value to date is: Chandler is a way to manage and collaborate on ideas using: A List View built around the idea of the Triage Workflow A Calendar View Chandler Hub Sharing Service
  • the user problem we are serving is an emerging market
  • there isn’t a shared, public vocabulary to describe what we’re doing
  • Better product messaging so that people understand what ‘user problem’ we’re trying to solve and how we’re trying to solve it.
  • more ways to get data in and out
  • we will not be implementing CalDAV scheduling
    • Graham Perrin
       
      CalDAV scheduling is just one aspect of CalDAV; see http://caldav.calconnect.org/standards.html
  • We’re not looking to be a cheaper alternative to Outlook/Exchange. This means we’re not investing in support for free/busy-style scheduling. We’re not looking to be the ‘everyman’s’ version of Microsoft Project or Bug and Ticket-Tracking systems. This means we’re not investing in support for complex task and project management, e.g. task dependencies, tracking percent done, time estimates, robust support for assigning tasks, etc. We’re also not going to be implementing the GTD methodology.
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    February 6th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : Vision - 0 views

  • Custom Attribute
  • Custom Attribute
  • The Chandler Knowledge Worker
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  • Information is the substance of their work and more information is the output of their work: Research, proposals, priorities, direction and decisions?
  • knowledge is gained and shared
  • how people actually work
  • (too) many interesting things
  • There's something wrong with the way data
  • doesn't flow between the tools we use to manage, process, organize our information
  • software should be modeled around information
  • technological barriers
  • too much copying and pasting
  • false assumption that information management tasks are binary
  • false assumption underlying most productivity software that information and the organizational structures needed to manage that information are essentially static
  • A lone email languishes for a long time in your Inbox and then all of a sudden, blooms into an unending thread which dies down
  • the thread is revived and mushrooms into a full scale project
  • Three weeks later
  • you barely give it a thought
    • Graham Perrin
       
      I tend to find myself involved in: at one extreme, very many varied small tasks, which are recorded/archived then intentionally forgotten; and at the other extreme: projects about which thought extends months or even years later. Between the two extremes: for me, things are hazy.
  • the same workflow hiccups show up again and again
  • an information management environment with built-in workflows that mirror what people hack together
  • three basic workflows everybody seems to construct for themselves, regardless of what tools they use
  • varying degrees of complexity and automation
  • These three workflows however, need to exist independently of each other
  • no complicated rule-builder
  • push-button interface
  • always assume a need for iteration and change over time
  • Peeling the Onion
  • Allow Organization to Change and Flow
  • the entire gamut of organizational affordances
  • Tagging
  • Filing, Rules, et cetera
  • won't ever be asked to decide between them
  • turn it into a Custom Attribute
  • Add semantics to a Tag
  • Custom Attribute
  • Drag a Tag or a Cluster to the sidebar
  • a Cluster: a way to thread items together, a way to reflect dependencies
  • Group collaboration systems exist in parallel with personal communication tools
  • does not scale down to work for small groups
  • the majority of the significant emails we send are sent while still in a draft-state
    • Graham Perrin
       
      This is very thought-provoking.
  • Future
  • a well-defined end-user information model
  • by modeling the user experience around how people work today and the substance of that work, we can be more than just another software tool and instead aspire to be a system for information management: A smarter way to work. A better environment for collaboration
  • We want Chandler to be able to talk to other applications
  • As we make Chandler's end-user information model richer, the number of interesting applications to talk to will increase. This is one of the many areas where we hope that people in the community will help increase Chandler's ability to talk to other applications
Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » Chandler User Survey - 0 views

Graham Perrin

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

  • 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
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  • 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

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.
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : The Element Of Time - 0 views

  • Attaching semantics to items
  • organizing data, needs to be a separate workflow
  • separate UI affordances
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  • 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

Chandler Wiki : How The Cookie Crumbles Part I - 0 views

  • hierarchies has been the designated one size fits all solution to all our organizational needs
  • we break our semantically pure hierarchies by overstretching their bounds
  • we end up with messy hierarchies that are unusable and unmaintainable
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  • Stuff I need access to DOES NOT HAPPEN TO EQUAL the stuff at the top of the tree
  • Case study: Katie's OmniOutliner
  • http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
  • The following are images taken from: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : The Nature Of Tags - 0 views

  • 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
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  • 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

Chandler Wiki : Chunking Over Time - 0 views

  • no apparent rhyme or reason for the way in which sub-folders and sub-sub-folders are arrayed, making it difficult for you to predict as you navigate through each level of the hierarchy, what sub-levels will appear. It also makes the hierarchy as a whole, difficult to grok once you opened up a few branches of the hierarchy. You're presented with an array of relationships and no easy way to chunk them down
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Fine criticism of a hierarchy.
Graham Perrin

Chandler Get Started Guide - Chapter 2: Setting Up Accounts - Email Accounts - 0 views

  • drag and drop the email messages that you want to import into Chandler into one of the folders
  • file incoming email into one of those folders
  • Depending on which Chandler folder the email is in, when it gets retrieved and imported as a Chandler item, it will be stamped as a calendar event, email message, or task
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  • Every time Chandler syncs with the email server
  • it checks for any new messages in one of the Chandler folders
  • even though it remains in the folder it is only imported once into Chandler
    • Graham Perrin
       
      So: does Chandler Desktop use IMAP message IDs to determine whether a message has been previously copied?
Graham Perrin

ISC Operations Status Page - 0 views

  • 2009-08-21 - Our Redwood City (SQL1) data center has had a power outage. (all times PDT) Most mission critical systems are up. If you know of something that's down, please send an email to hands @ isc . org . 7:45 pm - Power goes out - routing unavailable 8:40 pm - R1.SQL1 and firewalls back up - most equipment down 8:50pm - farside is back up - power to servers being restored as UPSs charge up 10:00pm - most machines are back up The work on our Redwood City data center is complete for now. Apart from the outstanding new router hardware issue, and some minor tidy-ups, the upgrades are now complete. We are currently working with our router vendor to diagnose the issues we had with our core router and will attempt cutting over to this again in future when these are resolved. A new F-Root node has recently been installed in Philipsburg, on the island of Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. If you are present at OCIX or going to be connected please setup peering with us there if you are not already doing so. You can use our web form for this. A new F-Root node has recently been installed in Frankfurt connected to the DE-CIX, so please setup peering with us there if you are not already doing so. You can use our web form for this. ISC's F-Root node in Munchen, Germany is currently partially down due to hardware failure. ISC is working on getting the node back up as soon as possible.
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    Internet Systems Consortium operations status
Graham Perrin

VTODO with DUE date in Apple iCal : arnaudq's blog - 0 views

  • clients will consider the TRIGGER to be relative to the DTSTART property
  • meaningless (some time in 2004)
  • DTSTART property has a DATETIME
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  • DUE property has a DATE
  • invalid per the new calsify spec
Graham Perrin

Triage Status - Chandler2 documentation - 0 views

  • additional triage states can be defined in plugins
  • triage can be thought of as a timeline
  • points in time defining transitions
Graham Perrin

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » Later sort improved - 0 views

  • focus on a few at a time
  • items are “triaged”
  • Mostly, I just want to know what’s coming soon
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  • the LATER section gives me that
  • I’m always assigning alarms to anything I don’t want to think about right now
  • my NOW section is much more manageable and I’m calmer
Graham Perrin

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

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

The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » Sync *all* of your Chandler dat... - 0 views

  • show up in other iCalendar or CalDAV calendar applications
  • Chandler notes
  • Chandler notes
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  • as Tasks (VTODOS)
  • NOW and LATER triage status will both be interpreted as “Not-Done”
  • Anytime events will look the same as All-day events
    • Graham Perrin
       
      See also http://n2.nabble.com/-tp2938080p2946160.html concerning events that have a start date and time, but no duration.
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : Ip Kvm Eval - 0 views

  • limited staff
  • telecommuting
  • distributed servers
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  • network stops responding
  • server is waiting at a boot prompt
  • a remarkable level of control
  • remotely-accessible power switches
  • TCP/IP-accessible keyboard/video/mouse control
  • 10-ft 3-way USB KVM cable
  • best proposal
  • StarTech 8-outlet power switch (PCM815SHNA)
  • StarTech 16-port StarView USB+PS2 KVM w/OSD
  • singificantly improves response time
  • TemPageR
  • critical failures
  • StarTech SV1100IPEXT ($650)
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