[Design] Sample Use Cases - Sowers

[Jim Sowers]

Hi All,

I've read through a lot of stuff, but I think it is best to describe to 
you how I would envision using Chandler that would make it really useful 
to me and lots of people in small offices.

1. My personal calendar. 
Stuff that I don't want anyone else to see.  Yet I would "share" it, not 
for the purpose of sharing it, but for the purpose of having it backed 
up.  My view of the world is: What happens if the second I close my 
computer it gets struck by lightning, or I get mugged (I did a few 
months ago), or whatever.  The keys for me are:

    * Being able to have my stuff available online
    * Being able to work offline (caching)
    * One button archiving (e.g., Syncing when connected).


Chandler offers all of this, although the thinking behind sharing seems 
to be focused on sharing, but not really a mention of archiving for 
archiving's sake.  Most people don't sweat this, but I do.  
Additionally, I use multiple computers, so I want to have and sync 
Chandler with all of them.

2. My DJ calendar.
I DJ African/Caribbean music.  I want to be able to publish a read-only 
calendar available on the web for people to see my gigs, AND to give 
certain people read/write privileges so they can add events.  Basically, 
I have a Yahoo! Group right now (spincycle), but I don't want to be 
constantly sending out emails.

Some people may proactively look at the web, others would subscribe via 
iCal or Outlook (but a lot of people still are not that sophisticated -- 
I think we forget the rarefied  air we still breathe). Perhaps some kind 
of RSS alarm when new additions to the calendar would be cool--does that 
make sense, or am I just describing alarm functionality??  I know this 
is done at the email level, not sure how it could work elsewhere.   I 
think the chasm is between the mobile-only users and the corporate types 
-- lots of my non-corporate friends use their phone as their PIM.

3. My Business calendar. 
Shared with people in my company -- and have ability to allow some to 
see the event details, and others only to see that the time is blocked.  
Again, would probably want a web view.  I've been doing some work for a 
small law office.  They are not tech savvy at all, and put together a 
daily calendar on Excel -- one day/worksheet.  This is the kind of the 
kind of thing that they could totally use, however, they would need some 
enhancements to make it fully functional -- the kind of think that a 
developer/consultant could make a nice little market out of.

4. My Sports Clinic Calendar -- when I have to kick Hartsook's butt in 
racketball every once in while!  OK, I don't really need a separate 
calendar for that :-)

Finally, I have looked at the path, and 0.7 pages, but haven't seen any 
mention of when the 30-day calendar view will be available.  I'll file a 
bug, but am really hoping it is soon.

I know you're busy with presentations.  Hope this is helpful.

Jim
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