[chandler-users] After a few of weeks of Chandler...

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Dave and Philippe,

> Dave Cowen wrote:
>> Tools -> Select View -> Day View seems to be a strange place to put
>> the view options instead of there being a toggle in the windows or
>> from the View menu.
> 
> You shouldn't use this menu to switch in Day View. Simply click in the
> day of the week in the calendar header and that day will be displayed.
> To switch back to Week view, click on the Week (left most column).
> You're not the only one not discovering that feature so it's clear that
> something's wrong here from a usability standpoint.

I agree, I've found that a large minority of people never discover that
they can do day mode directly from the calendar UI, this needs fixing.

> There's a very underrated feature in Chandler and it's reminders aka
> alarms: "later" tasks items with reminders will automatically turn into
> "now" when the time comes up. The same is true of meetings. So if you
> set up dates correctly to your later items, you shouldn't have to peruse
> them to find out what to do next (unless you're so fast you're running
> out of things to do sometimes...).

Philippe describes the way LATER->NOW transitions are supposed to work,
but I wanted to highlight that ideally, the LATER section would
automatically sort by the upcoming due date, which I think would be
pretty close to the workflow Dave uses, is that right Dave? You'd see
the things with alarms that fire soon first.

This isn't working yet, which I agree tends to make large LATER sections
unapproachable.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey