[chandler-users] [Newsletter] Tips and Tricks, New Features and Improvements

[Mimi Yin]

This is the first in a series of newsletters I will be compiling for  
the Users list. The newsletter is intended to be a roll-up of some of  
the more interesting design discussions: a 'Did you know...?' Tips  
and Tricks section on using Chandler culled from the users list  
itself, New Features that are coming, and Major Usability and  
Workflow issues that are being discussed on the design list.

The newsletter itself is meant to be brief, a way for users list  
subscribers to get an overview of what's going on without having to  
read every last message. However, it's also mean to generate further  
discussion on the list so please respond with questions, comments and  
especially if you feel that something important should have been  
included.

I imagine that depending on list and development activity, I will  
endeavor to compile a newsletter approximately once a month.

Mimi

Tips and Tricks - Did you know...?

1. Andre described a neat way for people to email messages, tasks and  
events to your Chandler Desktop via Chandler's special IMAP folders.  
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-users/2007- 
September/000625.html

Andre has set up separate email addresses for each IMAP folder to  
accomplish this, but I imagine you could also do this by 'tagging'  
messages in the subject line and setting up rules to automatically  
file those messages into the Chandler IMAP folders.

2. Katie has been using weekly anytime events as a way to keep track  
of issues she needs to discuss with individual members of the OSAF  
team. Each person gets their own recurring series and each week, they  
automatically pop into the NOW section of her Dashboard in accordance  
with the recurrence rule. She's said that it doesn't even really  
matter who goes on which day which prompted me to think that it might  
be worth reviving the idea of extending 'anytime this day' to include  
options for 'some time this week' or 'some time this month'. She uses  
the Notes field to track discussion topics for each week. Each week's  
occurrence stays in her NOW section until she's finished with all the  
open issues and marks it DONE.

3. I personally have been sharing a 'Fun Activities' collection with  
friends. It's mostly a calendar of events to go to. But once in a  
while, I find it useful to throw in a Note to list out ideas for  
'Movie Nights' or 'Restaurants To Try'.

NEW FEATURE WORK

1. We have kicked off month view on the Desktop  and month view and  
overlays in Chandler Hub with some initial design meetings. A first  
pass at overlays in Chandler Hub is coming out with the 0.9 release  
that is due in a couple of weeks.
+ http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-September/ 
007682.html
+ http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-September/ 
007683.html


2. Some usability and workflow issues we're working on:

+ Items popping into the top of NOW that shouldn't be
- http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-October/ 
007695.html
- Some of the bugs called out in this thread have already been fixed  
and targetted to Desktop Release 0.7.2

+ Improvements to how the Triage Status column sorts in the LATER and  
DONE sections
- https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8939

+ Improvements to what appears in the Who column, when
- http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-October/ 
007693.html

+ Re-ordering Triage Status so that the order is now NOW to LATER to  
DONE
- FIXED: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10926

+ Importing from Google Calendar: Google Calendar does let you export  
your calendar data as an .ics file. So the only way to get your data  
out and into Chandler is to subscribe read-only to your Google  
Calendar directly from Chandler. However, once you've done that, you  
can't edit it anymore! We're looking at ways to get around that,  
namely, allowing users to make local changes to view-only calendars  
and instructions on how to work around Google Calendar's lack of  
support for calendar export.
- http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-users/2007- 
October/000662.html


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