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

[Reid Ellis]

On Mon Jan 23 2006, at 20:36, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
> 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.
>
This is reminiscent of the drag-to-copy vs drag-to-move debates of  
ages gone by. However, in this case, an item may belong to several  
collections, so moving out of a collection (or all collections) is  
not an expected/clear behaviour, is it?

Are we expecting that users will have items in multiple collections  
as a matter of course? Or will it be less common than the one- 
collection item? If one-collection items prevail, moving items to  
other collections should behave as they do in iCal, where they would  
be removed from the previous collection.

Maybe I need to read more design notes on the Wiki about this..

Reid