[chandler-users] thoughts on chandler part 2

[Sky Blue]

>> Have you tried the triage/alarm functionality much?  It's intended to
>> satisfy the need to be able to focus in on what's going on now, which is
>> what I think you want from a today/tomorrow list.
>>
>> The idea is stuff you're not going to focus on in the next few days you
>> triage to LATER.  If you want it to pop back into your focus, add an alarm,
>> when the alarm goes off, it'll show up as NOW.
>
> Yes, that is helpful.  I've been trying it the last week or so and it so far
> I've not needed a seperate today/tomorrow list.
>
>>
>> Unfortunately one of our big bugs right now is that the LATER section
>> sorts wrong; you really want to be able to look at LATER items in the order
>> they're going to become NOW, but it's sorting wrong right now.
>
> Yeah, that would be helpful.  It does feel a little messy right now.
>
>>
>> This gets much more interesting when you use the sharing features; if you
>> have a small group of people working on something, any time someone else
>> makes a change to an item, it'll temporarily "pop-to-now", which basically
>> means, even if it's DONE or LATER, it'll still show up in your NOW section
>> until you click "Clean-up".  This works out pretty nicely when you're
>> wanting to check in on what's going on with a shared project.
>
> Kassia is starting to try the program out, and we definitely have shared
> projects.  I'll see if we can try this.
>
>>
>>> I haven't found the calendar or email functions very useful.  I like the
>>> user interface of gmail and google calendar better and it's not that
>>> difficult to have that and chandler open and look at both in turn.
>>
>> We decided pretty early on that the bar to being a decent email client was
>> just too high, we weren't going to replace Thunderbird or gmail without a
>> lot of effort.
>>
>> The main sell of using Chandler for calendaring is you can do read-write
>> calendar sharing with other people, which you can't really do with Google
>> Calendar.
>
> Ah, that makes sense.  If kassia and I can figure out how to interact with
> Chandler we'll give this a try.