[chandler-users] wish list

[Grant Baillie]

On 14 Mar, 2008, at 07:14, Rick Rawson wrote:

> If OSAF goes belly-up today, I will continue to use Chandler into  
> the foreseeable future because it's an enormously useful program, as- 
> is.

I'm in the same boat, and it's nice to hear I'm not the only one :D.

> However, there are some improvements that would make life with  
> Chandler a whole lot smoother, with the most urgent first in the list:
>
> -- Copy an event and paste it. This is distinct from recurrence. I  
> often want to copy an event and put it in a "odd place", such as two  
> days later, and may want to edit the event so it is distinct in some  
> small way from the original that I copied. It's not a recurrence,  
> but it is a time-saver. This function would also allow me to have a  
> quasi-recurrence if there is an event that will occur over, say the  
> next two weeks on Monday, Thursday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Interesting. Can you say a little about how this helps you save time?  
Would a "Duplicate" menu item do the trick as well?

> -- Order the triage table by triage status AND date/time.  
> Personally, I would have no use for other ordering options.

We do have a bug for sorting the LATER section:

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8939

though what you want is more general. The current behaviour is to have  
the sub-sort for triage be by the last time you changed triage status,  
but maybe there's a better/simpler option here. Mimi, what do you think?

> -- Access a "mini-calendar" when entering dates in the detail area

Me, too. I'm not sure if there's enough coding time to get this in  
before 1.0.

> -- Details area...a simple editor, with clickable URLs and simple  
> formatting (underline, bold, italic)
>
> -- Double-click on an item in the tickler (reminder) popup, to be  
> taken immediately to that item. The tickler is drawing my attention  
> to one or more items. I should be able to click my way to such an  
> item in Chandler easily.

This would be straightforward ... Could you file a bug?

--Grant