[Design] Cycling through an item's triage status

[Mimi Yin]

On Nov 11, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Keith Winsor wrote:

> Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
>> Even though I did advocate changing the order to the current "new"  
>> order
>> (or old depending on how long one's been using Chandler), I have also
>> had to make a slight adjustment of habit. Maybe one day triage status
>> order could be a preference. From my perspective, Now>Later>Done
>> supports better the triaging of new items, while Now>Done>Later  
>> supports
>> better the marking of items to Done in the moment that they are  
>> that, Done.
>>
> Bearing in mind the notion for the future of users being able to  
> apply their own triage definitions (Soon, Later, Someday, Over my  
> dead body), would there be merit in having some sort of Done  
> indicator in or adjacent to the triage status column? It need only  
> be one character wide, like a checkbox. Presumably, when more  
> triage states are available, a dropdown menu would be more  
> appropriate, at which point anything is two clicks away, but a one- 
> click-and-done button would be nice.

This is an interesting idea. It'd be nice if when you rolled over the  
Triage Status button, you were presented with 2 options:

1. DONE
2. LATER (with a down arrow to select from the list of 'soft- 
deadlines' we've been discussing.

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359

>> The Merits of New Mail Appearing in the Dashboard
>>
>> I think part of my subconscious motivation for advocating the
>> Now>Later>Done order in support of front-end triaging is because new
>> Mail items appear also automatically in the Dashboard. In old threads
>> where this has been discussed, the agreement was to wait for more  
>> user
>> feedback before making any changes to this work flow. As an  
>> alternative,
>> I think what would be useful would be some kind of exclusion type of
>> view filter in the Dashboard collection, for example, All items  
>> except
>> Mail items, or more specifically, All items except items only  
>> stamped as
>> Mail. The point being that items only stamped as Mail in my Dashboard
>> are nearly always items I just haven't triaged yet. Does this make  
>> sense
>> to anyone besides me?  :)
>>
> How about making the existing buttons usable in combinations: click  
> Mail and Tasks, and they both stay selected? Clicking All would  
> have the effect of selecting all three buttons (or four when the  
> Notes button appears). Doable?

I think this is doable. Although I think we'd have to wait for an  
independent view selector (list versus calendar). Otherwise,  
switching to the Calendar view will get annoying because you have to  
de-select the app area you were in and then select Calendar.

We could do a first pass at this with shift-click though.
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11360