[Design] Questions about ticklers/reminders

[Grant Baillie]

I was reading the Dashboard spec and wasn't quite sure about a couple  
of things.

Currently, in Chandler we have reminders that are relative to event  
start-times. If I understand right, reminders with fixed times could  
be applied to any Item, and these are called "custom date ticklers".  
(I'm not really so sure why these are more "custom" that the event- 
relative reminders, though). Also, when either kind of reminder is  
fired, the triage status of the corresponding Item is supposed to  
change to "Now".

The things I wasn't sure of were:

1) Will we still use the current reminder dialog? (Some might find it  
handy in cases where an alarm goes off and the item is already  
triaged as "Now". This would often be the case if you have a reminder  
set to display 5 minutes before an event, because events are promoted  
to "Now" at the start of their day).

2) Assuming we have the dialog, and it displays an alarm, and the  
user "snoozes" it, or dismisses it, is the triage status of the item  
affected?

3) If you set a custom-date tickler on a recurring event, it doesn't  
make sense to add it for all future events. Do we show the recurrence  
change dialog, with just "Cancel" and "Change This" enabled? Or maybe  
just assume the user knows what they're doing and just make the change.

--Grant