[chandler-users] The story of a new user

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Allan,

> I'm glad it's helpful. I was concerned that, being something of a 
> non-standard user, I might be throwing things off. Feel free to ignore me!

I don't think you're a non-standard user at all, I think PhD students 
are very close to the group we're interested in catering to, 
*especially* if you're actively collaborating with other academics, but 
even if not, if you have lots of notes that you need to process every 
day, I think you're who we're trying to serve.

> The way I described it is how I understand NOW... that's all I can say. 
> So, yes, ACTIVE would be much closer to the way I manage my work, but 
> again, that's just me.

I think ACTIVE and DEFERRED would be fine labels.

I wonder if NOW and LATER would make more sense if we'd labeled that 
column "Focus"?  I think of triage status as really being about focus, 
these are things I want to focus on right now, these are things I'll 
focus on later.  In that context, NOW/LATER mean pretty much the same 
thing to me as ACTIVE/DEFERRED.  Would having the word focus associated 
help you?

I think this is actually an important issue, the words we use to label 
features have to accurately convey what we're trying to provide 
workflows for.  If the words aren't read the way we want them to be, we 
need to change the word!

Sincerely,
Jeffrey