[Design] Sharing Notifications in Chandler

[Mimi Yin]

Sheila has asked me to write a summary of how the Dashboard design  
we're planning on implementing in the Alpha 3/4 timeframe will  
support notifications use cases.

My question to the list is:
Does the Dashboard design satisfy basic use cases for notifications?  
Are there are other scenarios we need to consider that fall outside  
of the realm of the Dashboard workflows? (e.g. I need to be able to  
see sharing notifications from outside of Chandler, in my email Inbox  
or my RSS reader).

Support for Notifications in the Dashboard Design
===
For each collection in the sidebar, users will be able to see the  
following in the summary table view:

Unread items marked with an Unread icon in the Communications Stamp  
column.

Unread items are defined as:
+ Newly received items via Email, aka capital-N notifications.
+ Newly created items via Sharing, aka small-n notifications.
+ Recently edited items via 'Updates to emailed items', aka capital-N  
notifications.
+ Recently edited items via Sharing, aka small-n notifications

New Emails and 'Updates to emailed items' show up automatically in  
the NOW section of each collection.

Newly created/edited items that haven't been Emailed don't show up  
automatically in the NOW section of each collection.

To view all Unread items in each collection, regardless of whether  
they were Emailed or not, sort the table by the Communications  
column. All Unread items will be grouped together at the top/bottom  
depending on sort order.

To view all Unread items across all of your MINE collections, sort on  
the Communications column in the 'All' collection.

In Alpha 3 there will also be a separate log that users can access  
from the Test menu that displays all changes to shared collections in  
a unified log list.

This can eventually turn into a more polished Activity Viewer that  
logs all user interactions (sharing-related or otherwise).

In the Beta timeframe, a nice to have for the log list is the ability  
to click on a log item and get taken to the item in the Chandler UI  
in the appropriate view.

Thx, Mimi


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