[chandler-users] Re: change DB path / roaming profile

[Andre Mueninghoff]

My usage is very similar to yours, Philippe. Now it is anyway. My
initial approach to the Dashboard, as once described a long while ago in
a post to one of these lists, was (what I would call) a bottom-up, big
bucket approach of sorts. That is, by default, I included nearly all
collections in the Dashboard, plunged in, and went from there. In short,
I became overwhelmed by this approach in exponential proportion to the
number of total items I began to accumulate.

Now, I take (what I would call - I might have this metaphor backwards) a
top-down approach, a minimalist approach, with the goal of focusing my
attention on a relatively short list of Now items, my no-kidding
right-now / today GTD next action items. I really appreciate the ability
to easily and quickly triage new items into Later as required (helps out
with applying David Allen's 2-minute rule triage guidance). (A pet peeve
though is that I would prefer the order of the Triage status field to be
Now-Later-Done as compared to the current Now-Done-Later. I would like
it certainly to be the other way around, but in practicality I find that
I am triaging many more items from Now to Later, than Now to Done.)

Also, (whether a feature or a bug, I'm not sure) I do want to mention
that I appreciate being able to remove items from the Dashboard when I
want to / need to. I may have misunderstood, but I had been under the
impression that removing items from the Dashboard was not part of the
current "official perspective" (if not exactly guidance) of the use of
the Dashboard. Nonetheless, I have found that if I drag new items to 
personal collections, provided these personal collections are set to
"Keep out of Dashboard" then I am able to Remove these items from the
Dashboard without triggering the move of these items to the Trash
collection. That is, they remain in the personal collection. (I think
this may only work if the items are not stamped as Mail.) This is
terrific in that it affords me the granular maintenance of my Dashboard
that I find so useful.

While on the topic of the Dashboard, I must add how much I appreciate
the ability to email myself tasks and events all day long from my PDA
along the lines of the functionality offered by Backpack from 37Signals.
My wife knows now that if she emails an event to my Chandler Events IMAP
folder (user_name+folder_name at email.domain) and includes the date and
times of the event in the subject line that Chandler will parse these
values (using the rules used by the quick entry field) and plop the
event on my calendar appropriately. Splendid indeed when said event
appears on the Chandler Hub calendar (collection) she subscribes to.

Um, sorry for going on a bit there, hope this info is useful to some,
but I am just thrilled with the Preview release of both the Desktop and
the Hub Server. The possibilities are enormous.

Cheers, Andre

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:04:52 -0700, "Philippe Bossut"
<pbossut at osafoundation.org> said:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Andrew Tong wrote:
> > 2) subscribe to published from from second machine as same user; give up 
> >    on dashboard
> >   
> This is basically the solution I'm using (between work and home) and I'm
> not giving up on Dashboard really. Of course, this is because of my
> personal way of using (or rather using sparingly) the collection named
> Dashboard. This is my current "philosophy" to use the Dashboard
> collection:
> - the Dashboard is just an automatically created gathering of all items
> in all collections I declared "Keep in Dashboard" on the local machine
> - the Dashboard only have meaning on the local machine (e.g. my "Family"
> collection is on the Dashboard on my home machine, not on my work
> machine)
> - I therefore *never* create items in the Dashboard directly, they'd be
> unshared and more or less "lost" for my use
> - I *always* have a collection (e.g. "Work") selected in the sidebar,
> this is where I do most of my triage (selecting Tasks or All in the
> Toolbar)
> - I use the Dashboard collection to get a view of everything on my NOW
> plate
> - As soon as a new item shows up in the Dashboard (i.e. Chandler items I
> received through email), I immediately drag and drop them into one of my
> created collections
> - In a way, I'm using collections as tags, since an item can be in
> several collections at once that works pretty well
> 
> That's really my personal pattern of use of the Dashboard and
> collections between several machines, not an officially endorsed method
> (I think Mimi might be horrified by my understanding of Dashboard... :)
> ). Hope this helps anyway.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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