[chandler-users] Sorting

[Ann Norcross]

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I have some questions about sorting. 

I know that sorting of the Triage list has had a few posts, and I'm sorry to start off with such a negative attitude, but I have to say that I am so totally confused by the sort mechanism that I really don't know how I can use the Dashboard or any of my collecitons. Seriously.

Here's a run-down of what I do, what I expect, and what happens, in case it is at all useful...

Any hints on how to understand the sort would also be helpful to me.

From Dashboard view, I press ...
... the little squiggly triangle at the top of the last coulumn until the NOW items are at the top.
... the bigger squiggly triangle labeled CLEANUP at the top of the screen

I expect...
... to see a series of NOW items sorted by date.
... that if I press the little sguiggly triangle again, I'll see all my LATER items at the top, sorted by date.
... that if I press the little sguiggly triangle a third time, I'll see all my DONE items at the top, sorted by date.

Instead, I see...
...  a series of NOW items sorted arbitarily, not by date, not by title, not by person... I have absolutely no idea what I am looking at, what is most important, and what I should pay attention to next.
... my LATER items sorted with all the alarmed items at the top, soonest to farthest away, followed by all the rest of my LATER items sorted arbitrarily, with some TODAY items  at the top and some at the bottom.
... my DONE items sorted in no particular order that I can discern.

So, perhaps Triage sort is not useful for me. Ok, no problem, I'll try sorting by DATE, if that's what I want....

From Dashboard view, I press ...
... the DATE column-title

I expect ...
...  to see all my NOW items sorted by ascending or descending date.
... that if I press the DATE heading again, the sort order will reverse.

Instead, I see ...
... all my items (NOW, LATER, and DONE) merged togther and sorted in one column in some arbitrary order, not date, not title, not user. Again, I have no idea what I am looking at and what is important.

So, I press ...
... DATE a second time, and it brings all the alrams to the top, in no particular order... it looks like today's alarmed items are on the bottom of the alarmed-items-group and the rest of the alarmed items start at the top with farthest in the future and the deadlines get closer as the list goes down.

At this point, I start making lots of individual collections, hoping to get the sort granualr enough that I can use it. That doesn't work, either. I am frustrated, and retreat to my email client as a task manager. Help.

ann