[chandler-users] Two questions: See real date? See items not in any collection?

[Benjamin Melançon]

Thank you Andre for your reply.

So, note to Chandler developers:  show real date and view / filter /
or sort items by *lack* of collections or stamps are wanted by some
real Chandler users!

On the search functionality, do you think you could give a brief
tutorial or point to one?  I honestly cannot find the search feature
at all!

(Update:  OK, I finally found it-- Edit > Find -- Command F on a Mac
-- turns the quick entry field into /find ...   Still, power features
and boolean search must have documentation well hidden, if at all, so
a lesson in how to use search might help.)

Thanks again,

benjamin

Agaric Design Collective
Open Source Free Software Web Development
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Andre Mueninghoff
<andre_mueninghoff at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
>
>  As a long-time Chandler Desktop user, to my knowledge, neither of these is
> possible currently in Chandler. However, I agree with you very much on the
> value and utility of these two views. I would very much prefer to see the
> event date in the table view even if the item has an alarm/tickler set for
> it. Also, I regularly and also laboriously step through the items in my
> Dashboard one-by-one while watching the collection membership status field
> at the bottom of the detail view to identify items only in the Dashboard.
> Along these same lines, I think it would be also useful to have a quick way
> to show only those items having no stamps, that is, neither an event,
> star/task, or email/communication stamp. I would add though that in spite of
> these types of user flow barriers and necessary workarounds, I have managed
> to accumulate approximately 2,000 items in my repository over time. Becoming
> familiar with the power of the search/find function can be very helpful in
> organizing items.
>
>  Sincerely,
>  Andre
>
>
>  Andre Mueninghoff
>  Senior IT Manager
>  Mobile: +1-201-689-1565
>  andre_mueninghoff at fastmail.fm
>
>  Benjamin Melançon wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Belated thanks to Eugene of http://blueoxen.com for answering my
> > question about changing the collection of an item (remove and add as
> > separate tasks).
> >
> > I have two more basic (but maybe not so easily answered) questions
> > that are important for my getting the most out of Chandler with the
> > worflow I'm trying to use with it.
> >
> > First:  how can I get Chandler to show the real date in the Date
> > column of the Dashboard view, instead of the date minus the alarm?
> > This has really messed me up.
> >
> > Second:  is there a way to see all items that haven't been put in a
> > collection (other than Dashboard) so that some attention can be given
> > to properly categorizing them (which is particularly important so they
> > can show up in calendar view at all!)
> >
> > Thanks greatly,
> >
> > benjamin
> >
> > Agaric Design Collective
> > Open Source Free Software Web Development
> > http://agaricdesign.com/
> > ask at agaricdesign.com
> > 774-286-1770
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