[chandler-users] wish list

[Rick Rawson]

Grant,

>> -- 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?

"Duplicate" would work just fine.

Here's a typical scenario. Let's say I have a group of documents to edit 
and I know I'm going to have to spread this job over several days, at 
random times, whenever I can squeeze it in...and I don't know how long 
it's going to take.

I create an event, create a checklist within the details area, and then 
place the event on my calendar to reserve a couple of hours today to 
work on these documents. I want to reserve some time tomorrow so I 
create another event for the same job and copy/paste the details area 
from today's event.

Making a recurring event won't work, because I will work on this little 
project today and tomorrow and I know I won't finish, but I don't know 
when I'll get back to it.

It would be much easier to duplicate the original event and then simply 
paste it one or more times onto different days of my calendar.

> 
>> -- 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?

I'm pretty sure this has been tracked as a bug, but to be clear, I need 
tasks and events within the NOW and LATER sections to be sorted by 
date/time.


> 
>> -- 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.

Now that you mention it, I do remember that there already is a two-month 
calendar sitting in the Chandler window, way over on the left. 
Hmmm...maybe I need to stop counting dates on my fingers and use the 
calendar that's already there!!

> 
>> -- 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
> 
> 
> 

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