[Chandler-dev] Next Usability Hurdle: Answering the question: What should an item be?

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Mimi,
This does not appear to be the right bug #:
> ! https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10557
> "doAutoTriageOnDateChange" should be turned back on if user  
> manually triages event in a way that matches event date/time

I would like to try out the .chex file if you can point me in the  
right direction.

Thanks,
Brian Kirsch


On Feb 8, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Now that Grant is happily ;) plugging away at paring down the UI:  
> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2008-February/ 
> 009558.html
>
> I'd like to introduce the next set of bugs to tackle on the Desktop  
> Work Queue: Helping new users understand how to think of the 'item- 
> unit' in Chandler. We've gotten a lot of feedback that it takes  
> quite a bit of hard thinking for people to wrap their head around  
> what might constitute an item. We'd like to lower the cognitive  
> barrier to getting started with dumping ideas into Chandler.
>
> 1. Item is an awfully abstract concept. Let's center the user's  
> thinking around more concrete ideas like Notes, Messages and  
> Events. This mostly means changing the hint text in the Quick Entry  
> field from 'Create a new item.' to 'Create a new note.'
>
> I think we should also remove the hint text about /Find. I think it  
> unnecessarily clutters the Quick Entry field and makes it so that  
> you don't even necessarily realize that, that's how you can create  
> new items. I'm also not sure how important it is that users  
> understand how to search, especially new users who don't have any  
> data yet! The hint text also misled Phillip to believe that you had  
> to type out /Find in order to search, whereas you can actually just  
> hit the standard Cmd/Ctrl-F keyboard shortcut to invoke search as  
> well.
>
> 2. A user suggested that our OOTB items could be more useful.  
> Instead of Chandler-related tasks and events, we should instead  
> provide a list of 'fill-in-the-blank' items that better demonstrate  
> how Chandler is most useful. I've done a first pass at an OOTB set.  
> Many of the items are based on use cases current users have sent to  
> the mailing lists.
>
> You can check out the items I've created by downloading the .chex  
> file from this bug and loading it into Chandler. Be careful not to  
> overwrite your own data! https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/ 
> show_bug.cgi?id=10557
>
> Feedback on this set of items would be great.
>
> Mimi
>
>
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