[chandler-users] using the Dashboard

[Michael Ax]

Rick - I'm brand new to all this and I'd like to rephrase your question 
and ask it myself. I know that putting words into other people's mouth 
is a killing offense and I don't want to be doing that; So here's my 
take on it:

DASHBOARD:

the point of it is that you are to be confused about what buckets you 
filed anything into. once you're confused you can dream up schemes to 
name your items and because your now spending more time 'planning', get 
to request a larger budget for an assistant.

If the tabs related to an item would simply light up when you're on that 
item confusion would be lessened; If you would have visual clues on your 
items being in multiple buckets/timelines then your confusion would be 
lessened. This however would apply downward pressure on your budget, 
make your screens easier to understand, and it might mean the end of 
relating with that lovely helper.

I've filed several hundred items into chandler over the last 2 weeks and 
am doing my best to love this program for all the problems created by 
its noob implementors. It a long term gamble on my part actually. I 
trust that what I have will work when the money is gone AND that once 
that happens a group can take the brilliant guts of it and port this 
thing to JavaScript on the Mozilla Framework over the course of a couple 
of months.

I'm still only 2 weeks into sorting through an insane amount of tasks 
and timelines and love the little dog for what how its brilliantly 
effective in my work-flow, but looking at the code, I see the noob 
prose, not the marks of folks that can get sh* out the door with ease. 
Its a Rock/Hard-Place thing.

Anyway, do pardon my descent into rambling. Perhaps someone else will 
pipe-in and enlighten us both about how to properly behold the 
awesomeness in front of us.

All the best,
Michael Ax



Rick Rawson wrote:
> I suspect that I may be missing an important functionality in 
> Chandler: the Dashboard. I have 7 collections and have set each one to 
> "Keep out of Dashboard," since I see no utility in seeing my