[Design] [D/f]How do I group events?

Jeffrey Harris jeffrey at osafoundation.org
Mon Jan 23 17:36:48 PST 2006


Hi Mimi,

> iCal gets around this by shipping out of the box with 2 calendars: Home
> and Work + they have a big fat [+] button at the bottom of the sidebar.
> 
> It is also possible that as Chandler becomes more of a "cross-app" app,
> the idea of creating "top-down" collections of items as a generic way to
> group items will neutralize the "set a category" mental model people
> bring from other calendaring apps.

Yeah, this will hopefully happen eventually, but why not add a big fat
plus of our own?  I'd be supportive of that, anyway.

I suppose one worry is that people are used to the hierarchical model of
items, it won't occur to them that add-to-collection isn't going to
move-my-item-out-of-this-collection.  Making a big fat plus isn't going
to solve that problem.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey


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