[chandler-users] Alarms beating sync!

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Paul,

Ouch. That is a problem.

There isn't a workaround for this right now. Jeffrey, Grant: How hard  
would it be to create a menu item that applies all conflicts in one  
fell swoop?

As you've noted, support for "sharing with yourself" is a bit behind  
"sharing with others".

If this doesn't cramp your style too much, you could try not sharing  
alarms under Share>>Manage... Of course that would only work if you  
mostly only need to set and receive alarm notifications from 1 of  
your computers.

Mimi

On Aug 7, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Paul Mattal wrote:

> All,
>
> I first want to say-- Chandler is amazing! I'm not sure how I ever  
> accomplished anything without it. It's made me massively more  
> productive, and I hope one day to have enough time to dive into the  
> code and give something back to the project.
>
> There's a class of problems that occur for me, I think because I  
> use several machines to access a few collections from 3 different  
> computers (home, work, laptop). There might be some things to think  
> about for this usage pattern in general, which ties into some other  
> things I've heard suggested here about storing preferences  
> (collection colors) and/or syncing the Dashboard.
>
> The biggest problem from this category for me is that the following  
> scenario is very common for me:
>
> 1) Come in to work. Touch many items in my NOW bucket. Most of them  
> end up LATER with new alarms set for future dates. Close Chandler  
> at the end of the day (or not).
>
> 2) Go home and open Chandler at home.
>
> 3) First, Chandler processes all of its alarms.. the OLD ones for  
> all the items above. This kicks them all into NOW.
>
> 4) Then Chandler syncs the collections and gets the new alarms.  
> However, since the state change was more recent (I think), the  
> LATER state stored in the collection is applied as a "pending change".
>
> 5) I spend at least 10 minutes clicking each item and applying the  
> pending changes and getting myself back to the state I was looking  
> at when I left work.
>
> Is there any way around this? Something that blindly applied all  
> pending changes would even be fine for me. Or some way to keep the  
> alarms from triggering before the first sync.
>
> Any workaround, or even advice that I should be doing this  
> differently, would be greatly appreciated! It seems like the  
> simplest thing would be to have a single action to apply all the  
> pending changes without confirmation.
>
> Best,
> Paul
>
> P.S. Thanks to the list for the suggestion on fixing timezone  
> confusion. I think it's helping.. as I work through items, there  
> seem to be fewer and fewer with confused time zones.
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