[Design] Assigning 'soft-deadlines' to items as a way to prioritize LATER items

[Mimi Yin]

I agree that the workflow should be integrated. But thinking about it  
more, I realize there are some serious issues to iron out.

I'm worried about the arrow taking up space. I wish it could show up  
when you rollover the triage status cell.

More serious is the issue of where do we display the different  
flavors of LATER? In the Triage Status column? That would make it  
really wide.

In the Date column? Is it weird to set it in the Triage Status column  
and then have it appear in the Date column? A little, but I think we  
could frame it as a workflow short-cut: Triage this item to LATER +  
Set a Tickler for End of Week.

More troublesome is that we also want to give people the flexibility  
to assign a Triage Status of NOW, even if something is 'tickled' for  
End of Day. For example, something might be due next Week, but it's  
so important, I want to have it in NOW the whole time.

I think we should do this in phases. Let's first try living with more  
flexible Ticklers, separate from Triage Status and then see how we  
might be able to integrate the two for a smoother workflow.

Mimi

On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> BUT...  Most of the time I don't want to mark something as LATER
> (someday, maybe).  I want it out of my focus, but I want to force  
> myself
> to assign a date to bring it back into focus.  So instead of going
> through all the mouse movement of triaging to LATER then moving to the
> detail view to assign an alarm, I just leave it in NOW.  This is
> obviously not ideal, I'm just observing that this is my personal  
> pattern
> given the UI I've got now.
>
> I'm imagining tweaking the triage buttons to look like:
>
> NOW \/
>
> when you click on NOW, it rotates as usual.  But if you click on the
> down triangle, it pops up:
>
> NOW
> DONE
> LATER - Some day, maybe
> -------
> LATER - End of day
> LATER - Tomorrow
> LATER - End of week
> LATER - Next week
> LATER - This month
> LATER - Next month
>
>
> Oh boy, would that ever make me happy :)
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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