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

[Sheila Mooney]

Hey Priscilla,

This is great feedback thanks for the write-up. Just a couple of  
questions inline...

Sheila

On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Priscilla Chung wrote:

> 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.

Just to clarify, did you know the data was gone or did you try and  
sync and got an error? When you say backup your data, I assume you  
mean that you didn't realize you could republish the collections you  
had in Chandler?

>
> + '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.

Not sure what you mean here. Do you mean it's not obvious that you  
use the Send button?
>
> + 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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