[Design] [D/F] June Chandler 0.7 Alpha 2

[Priscilla Chung]

Here are my notes on D/F-ing Chandler 0.7 Alpha2 for the month of  
June. I'll be sending D/F notes and updating my journal monthly.
-Priscilla

For more details:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ 
DogFoodChandlerZeroDotSevenAlphaTwo0630

Highlights:

+ After the data wipe in Cosmo-demo, I did not realize I could back  
up my data. It was not clear that I was able to do that until  
informed by Katie. Took me a little while to get the outbound account  
information correct.

+ 'Send' button not clear enough to indicate the message/event was  
sending.

+ Feedback information on Google uses their 'Add invitation' from  
Gmail to Google calendar.

+ Currently as it stands,  I've realized that to be able to set up  
Chandler, you need have some technical knowledge about networking  
etc. Network settings are confusing and the error messages on what to  
do to fix them are confusing.

“It was all very frustrating just to set up so both of my Chandler  
calendars (my home and my work machine). What was frustrating was  
even though I had wiped out my repository, I had subscribed to my  
calendar and added it to 'my items' and it was very confusing which  
items were in my task list vs. things that were in my calendar. The  
events in my calendar were not displaying in the 'All' area. It's  
been frustrating because I feel most people would still need to be  
very technical to set up and use this application.”

+ I’m having difficulty keeping up with the GTD model in working and  
am retreating back to using my paper calendar to come up with my 'to  
do' lists. I find myself taking too much time pruning my 'to do'  
lists' and I've made the mistake of forgetting and missing a gallery  
event.

+ Wanted to send out an event item to everyone in the whole office  
from my personal calendar, but then realized I had personal notes on  
the event item that did not need to be part of the message. Luckily  
for me I realized I should have recreated the event in the Office  
calendar and not send it from my personal calendar. Though what if I  
was to send it from my personal calendar? How does the user  
distinguish between personal note on an event item and a public note  
to send out as part of the event information?

+ I made the mistake of not renaming a collection right after  
subscribing to it and was at a loss on who the collection belong to.
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