[chandler-users] The story of a new user

[Mimi Yin]

Heh, well there is the small issue of space! We could abbreviate in  
the Status column: ACT and DEF and spell out the labels in full in  
the section headers. On the other hand, it's nice today that the full  
word fits into the column.

I think this might be a good question to add to the informal "focus  
group" we're running to test the new chandler homepage and product  
messaging.

On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> 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
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