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

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Marcelo,

I'll let Jeffrey or Grant respond further re: wxWidgets. On the  
design side, we've been throwing around the idea of 'Spheres', which  
sound a lot like your 'Baskets'. Some properties of Spheres include:

+ Visually different from Collections (perhaps spheres are highlighted)
+ Selecting the sphere is like selecting all the collections in that  
sphere
+ Items can exist in multiple spheres

Nice to haves
+ Visual feedback in the List View (similar to the Calendar View) to  
show collection membership when multiple collections are selected.
+ When selecting a sphere, the ability to remember which collections  
were overlayed the last time you looked at that Sphere
+ Items can be dropped into a sphere, without being put into a  
collection in the sphere
+ Collections can exist in multiple spheres
+ Ability to overlay multiple Spheres at once?
+ Entire spheres can be shared at a time (this would require  
coordinate work in the web UI)

This has been our wishlist for spheres and I'm sure we can think of  
additional functionality. So I imagine any foray into implementing  
this feature should be phased.

Is some of this along the lines of what you've been thinking?

Mimi

On Feb 19, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:

> Doing UI for this would take
> a fair amount of effort, though, I think.
>
> Hmmm.. doesn't wxWidget have a tree-view widget?
>
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2008 3:37 PM, Jeffrey Harris <jeffrey at osafoundation.org>  
> wrote:
> 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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