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

[Mimi Yin]

I think the likelihood of one item appearing in multiple collections  
differs depending on the domain. As just a pure Calendar app: rare  
but not impossible (ie. An office event I am attending, so the item  
lives on both the office calendar and my own calendar.)

As an integrated information manager, you can easily imagine users  
creating all kinds of collections:
+ that are more than just (different calendars)
+ that are defined along "orthogonal" attributes: (ie. Project  
collections and @People agenda lists)

In this world, the likelihood of a single item appearing in multiple  
collections is very high.

Mimi

On Jan 24, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Reid Ellis wrote:

> 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
>
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