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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?
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knowledge is gained and shared
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how people actually work
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(too) many interesting things
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doesn't flow between the tools we use to manage, process, organize our information
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There's something wrong with the way data
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software should be modeled around information
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technological barriers
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too much copying and pasting
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false assumption that information management tasks are binary
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false assumption underlying most productivity software that information and the organizational structures needed to manage that information are essentially static
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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
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the thread is revived and mushrooms into a full scale project
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Three weeks later
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you barely give it a thought
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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.
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the same workflow hiccups show up again and again
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an information management environment with built-in workflows that mirror what people hack together
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three basic workflows everybody seems to construct for themselves, regardless of what tools they use
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varying degrees of complexity and automation
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These three workflows however, need to exist independently of each other
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no complicated rule-builder
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push-button interface
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always assume a need for iteration and change over time
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Peeling the Onion
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Allow Organization to Change and Flow
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the entire gamut of organizational affordances
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Filing, Rules, et cetera
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won't ever be asked to decide between them
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a Cluster: a way to thread items together, a way to reflect dependencies
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Group collaboration systems exist in parallel with personal communication tools
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does not scale down to work for small groups
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the majority of the significant emails we send are sent while still in a draft-state
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Future
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a well-defined end-user information model
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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
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We want Chandler to be able to talk to other applications
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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
