[Chandler-dev] Hierarchical "Baskets" - implementing them through a plugin

Jeffrey Harris jeffrey at osafoundation.org
Tue Feb 19 10:37:15 PST 2008


Hi Marcelo,

> How difficulty would that be to create a plugin that implemented 
> hierarchical baskets (I wouldn't say collections, let's say that a 
> "basket" is a different class that exists in parallel to collections - 
> collections are flat, baskets are hierarchical (n levels) - the user 
> could use collections in its current implementation state to "tag" items 
> while organizing them in the baskets. Perfect for GTD.
> 
> I would love to develop a plugin for that but some insights on how hard 
> would this be would be nice!

The repository supports collections containing other collections nicely, 
so the underlying structure would be easy.  Doing UI for this would take 
a fair amount of effort, though, I think.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey


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