[chandler-users] sub-collections

[Procter A.]

I think everyone is crying out for sub-collections. :D

I see it for me could work like this

Main Collection - Programme - Graphic Arts
Sub Collection  - Pathway -   Illustration & Digital Animation
Sub Sub Collection - Timeframe -   Semester 1
Sub Sub Sub Collection  - Module -   ADP Module 1

Clicking on Graphic Arts would show all notes and then for example Pathway would show only those tasks etc.

Would be great for me as I have loads of 'projects' that are interrelated.

Adam


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From: Fritz Meissner <meissner.fritz at gmail.com<mailto:meissner.fritz at gmail.com>>
Date: 2008/8/14
Subject: Re: [chandler-users] sub-collections
To: john at jglnet.co.uk<mailto:john at jglnet.co.uk>


I also feel this need intensely, but I'm not quite sure if this is because I am trying to make Chandler fit what I have done before, instead of grokking the Chandler philosophy.

To illustrate what I think I need :

I have a collection called Work; at work I will typically have three or four engineering projects on the go; each project will involve the development of several sub-systems; and there will be numerous day-to-day tasks for each sub-system. If I am sitting at my desk, I probably want to see every bottom level item for work, sorted according to when they are required so that I know what to do next. If I am in a meeting, I may want to see just notes for a sub-system, or for the whole project, depending on the meeting.

I could create collections called Project 1, Project 2 etc, and also collections called Subsytem 1A, Subsystem 1B, Subsystem 2A, 2B etc. Then I can make a new note in Subsystem 2A, and also add it to collections Project 2, and Work. That way I can select the collection according to my current context, and see everything that relates to it - provided I keep up with manually adding things to multiple collections. I suspect this will not happen reliably. Also the list of collections grow exponentially and becomes unmanageable.

My desire from what what I am used to is to have a hierarchy of collections so that I can add notes at the lowest level (say subsystem), which would automatically be added to every parent collection.

Does that sound useful ? Or is there already a way of achieving this effect that I have not seen yet ? Or is there perhaps a better way of organising things so that the hierarchy is not necessary or desireable?

Fritz


2008/8/14 John Leeming <john at jglnet.co.uk<mailto:john at jglnet.co.uk>>

Is it possible to define a collection as a sub-collection of another collection so that all tasks in the sub collection also appear in the main collection?

John Leeming
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