[chandler-users] Re: chandler-users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 22

[Davor Cubranic]

I think you're expanding Agenda's auto-assignment to categories (which 
assigned simply on occurrence of words or phrases in an item's 
description) to smart folders/filters. The latter needs a more 
complicated UI, especially because it will end up needing some kind of 
graphical construction of those expressions (like in EccoPro) to be 
really user-friendly. Not that having smart folders wouldn't be nice...

Davor

On Monday 24 March 2008 12:55:12 Carl Lemp wrote:
> What I picture as a first step is a Properties item on the
> right-click menu for the collections in the side-bar.  On a
> properties dialog, I could add names/phrases to match (synonyms) for
> that collection and enable auto-assignment for the collection name
> and/or the synonyms.  Something like the syntax and capabilities of
> Google's advanced search page would be convenient and easily
> understood by everybody; only using Triage status and item type
> instead of Language and File Type.  Any items that matched would be
> assigned to the collection.  In addition to ensuring that an item
> showed up everywhere it was relevant, this would allow me to treat
> collections as views into the database of items.  To work well as a
> view, the rules would have to be applied to every item in the
> database so that I could define a new collection for an existing
> database and Chandler would search the entire database to assign all
> matching items to the new collection.