[Design] Re: [chandler-users] Chandler + GTD

[Mimi Yin]

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-users/2007-November/ 
000963.html

Hi Andre, re-routing to Design list.

I think you've hit the nail on the head. The core value is the  
ability to link items together.

What's needed to turn this into a fully-supported feature?

1.The interface needs to express, as in visualize the links that are  
being created under the hood.

This means adding the ability to:
+ Group together linked items in Triage Table, at-will. (Similar to  
Thread View in Mail clients, but perhaps more useful if you can do it  
on a thread-by-thread basis.)
+ Highlight linked items, even when they're not grouped together.

2. Improve the experience for linking items together.

More often than not, you will want to link items *as* you create  
them. (e.g. Jot down the 5 thoughts you're having about Project X).  
Hence, the discussion with Poojan re: creating groupings of items via  
the Notes field: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007- 
November/007981.html

A different approach might be to tie the appearance of item-linking  
affordances to the Task Stamp.

1. Stamp an item as a Task
2. Affordances for creating a linked, group of items appears either  
in the Detail View or the Triage Table View.

Nice to have: Ability to drag and drop items between groups to add/ 
move them.

Mimi

On Nov 28, 2007, at 3:35 AM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:

> I've played with it...the plugin available on CheeseShop...works
> surprisingly well, it's potential value seems very high to me since it
> provides a valuable link between items regardless of where and how in
> one's repository they exist...reluctant to give it much use though so
> long as plugin data is not supported by export and reload.
> Andre
>
> Reid Ellis wrote:
>> I think Jeffrey whipped up a dependency system for items during the
>> last sprint week. Not sure of its current state, though.
>>
>> Reid
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