[Chandler-dev] Why is sometimes hard to dump a thought into Chandler?

[Mimi Yin]

Yes, I think that's a reasonable compromise. I do think however that  
the default should be in 'Note-taking' mode with the option to shrink  
it down to be just the title.

Jeffrey, Travis, thoughts?

On Feb 4, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Randy Letness wrote:

> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> Jeffrey, Travis and I chatted briefly yesterday about a fast and  
>> dirty pass at a quick entry web widget that users can plug into  
>> their iGoogle homepages, OSX Dashboard, Vista Dashboard, etc.
>>
>> We decided to optimize for the case where the user wants to  
>> quickly enter a whole series of items one after another. So we  
>> provided a single-line text field where you can enter the title  
>> and then simply hit Enter to submit the item without having to  
>> click on a Submit button.
>>
>> After thinking more about this, I think one of reasons why someone  
>> might hesitate to dump stuff directly into Chandler and instead  
>> pull up a text file or pull out their paper notebook first is that  
>> when entering information into Chandler, you still have to  
>> 'decide' what constitutes the item-unit and many times, when you  
>> just want to quickly dump something out of your head and get back  
>> to what it was you were doing, just that simple decision is a  
>> significant barrier to 'quick entry'.
>>
>> So I think it's actually more important to more closely simulate  
>> the 'pull up a text file and start typing' workflow in our quick  
>> entry web widget.
>>
>> We give users a large-ish text field where they can jot down some  
>> ideas, we declare the Title to be whatever blob of text comes  
>> before the 1st line break and dump everything else into the Notes  
>> field of the item.
>>
>> The downside of this is that users need to manually hit Enter in  
>> order to submit the item to the service. But I think this is an ok  
>> trade-off given that it's unlikely users are looking to optimize  
>> for the rate (speed) at which they can enter multiple items.
>>
>> Does this resonate with anyone else?
>>
>
> Couldn't the widget support both?  The default could be single line  
> entries, and there could be an option for multi-line.
>
> -Randy
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