[Design] Survey: How many events and tasks do you have?

[Aparna Kadakia]

Tools I use: Chandler, iCal, paper calendar in my home office

Number of Calendars : 2, Office caldendar, Personal Calendar
Number of Task lists : 1, TodoList

Number of Items in Calendars:
1. Office calendar: 654
2. Personal calendar : 90

Number of Items in Task lists:
1. TodoList : 43

Contacts:
27 contacts in Apple Address Book
57 contacts in the cell phone.


On Mar 20, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> My calendar: 805 events which includes
> + 700+ for Work
> + 30-40 for Home
> + 5 for PPD
>
> Office calendar: 636 events
>
> I flag emails in my Inbox and Design list:
> + 6 in my Inbox
> + 4 on Design list
> + 14 in my Drafts folder
>
> Tasks in shared PPD collection: 10-15
> Task list in shared Home collection: 8
>
> Tasks/Issues/projects kept in email drafts folder:
> + Design list issues: ~20-25
> + Design issues for planning: ~50-100
> + A list called todos: ~25
>
> Contacts
> + 5 contacts in Apple Address Book
> + 15 phone numbers in my cell phone
> + 100s of things in an old Palm address book that only runs on my  
> half-dead OS9 iBook
>
> But all these lists overlap with each other and with tasks lists in  
> the Notes field of items in the PPD shared task list. So I actually  
> have no idea how many tasks I have. ;o)
>
> Mimi
>
> On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Ted Leung wrote:
>
>> Chandler:
>>
>> Office Calendar: 636
>> Work Calender: 229
>> Home Calendar: 111
>> Julie's Calendar: 100
>> Katie's Calendar: 208
>> Niall Kennedy's Events: 215
>>
>> Normally I use KGTD+OmniOutliner on the Mac to keep my projects etc.
>> ~ 40 Projects
>> ~ 250 actions in those projects
>>
>> Mimi Yin wrote:
>>> In an effort to nail down performance goals for 0.7, we're  
>>> conducting a survey to get a sense of how much data Chandler  
>>> Dogfooders will have in the 0.7 timeframe. Please follow the  
>>> instructions below and reply to this thread with:
>>>
>>> 1. The tool(s) you are using: Chandler, Apple iCal, Outlook, Omni- 
>>> Outliner, Text file, etc.
>>> 2. The number of calendars and task lists you have
>>> 3. The number of items in each calendar and task list
>>>
>>> If you're comfortable, please share the name of each calendar/ 
>>> task list.
>>>
>>> INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHANDLER 0.6 CALENDAR DOGFOODERS*
>>> 1. From Chandler, export the calendar you want to compute to the  
>>> Desktop.
>>> 2. From the command line**, type cd Desktop 3. Copy and paste:  
>>> *grep BEGIN:VEVENT your_filename.ics | wc -l*
>>> 4. Edit *<your_filename>* to match the name of the calendar file  
>>> you exported 5. Hit enter.
>>>
>>> *This will only work for Mac users and Windows users with cygwin  
>>> installed. Linux, please figure out moral equivalent.
>>>
>>> **To get to the command line:
>>> + On Mac, launch the Terminal app
>>> + On Windows, launch Command Prompt
>>>
>>> If you're also storing non-calendar items in Chandler today,  
>>> please give an estimate of the number of non-calendar items you  
>>> have:
>>> a) Less than 100
>>> b) 100-500
>>> c) 500-1000
>>> d) Over 1000
>>>
>>> If you're NOT using Chandler, but use something else as a  
>>> calendar and/or task list.
>>> You can either follow the instructions above to count the number  
>>> of events you have on your calendar, IF you can export in the  
>>> iCalendar format; OR You can give us an estimate.
>>>
>>> Thanks! :o)
>>>
>>> Mimi
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