[Design] Quick Item Entry

[John Anderson]

I suspect that what the default should be many depend as much or even 
more on personal preference than frequencies of doing different tasks . 
I think lots of people would always prefer choosing a menu (or menu 
accelerator) to create a note, and lots would prefer only typing -- just 
depending on whether they hate the mouse, prefer menus or didn't like 
the shell-like command interface.

As long as menus are available for tasks, searching isn't harder than 
google (i.e. doesn't require learning a shell-like command interface), 
and powerful shell-like commands are available for those who prefer them 
I suspect everyone will be happy.

John

Mimi Yin wrote:
> Well the original plan was that if you started typing, we would assume 
> you were trying to search. Travis pointed out that you might be 
> creating new items more often than searching. (Especially given the 
> task management/calendaring scenarios we're focusing on for Beta / 1.0)
>
> How often do people do text search in Outliner / task management and 
> calendar apps? as compared to email clients?
> + The same amount?
> + Twice as much?
> + Half as much?
> + Barely ever?
> + Never?
>
> Mimi
>
> On Aug 11, 2006, at 4:35 PM, John Anderson wrote:
>
>>
>> Mike Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> after reading the other replies I now see that the text area is 
>>> supposed to be a command area in which search is but one part of 
>>> it's duty - that to me makes a world of difference as the user goes 
>>> into the task knowing what context is required.
>> One downside of putting search in the command line is that it will be 
>> less obvious this is where you go for search.
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