[Design] Chandler IMAP folders and the mail-stamp

Mimi Yin mimi at osafoundation.org
Mon Sep 17 16:24:29 PDT 2007


Just to make sure I'm understanding you correctly: Recurring events  
that have been addressed end up as distinct modified occurrences in  
the DONE section?

What is the reason for this behavior? I don't remember anymore ;)

Mimi

On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> There's actually *one* situation I take the email-ness out is for  
> events that become recurring: because of the way we display  
> recurring events in the Triage Table, recurring mailed events tend  
> to multiply like crazy in the DONE section when viewing my mail.  
> This annoys me to no end since one of the thing I like so much  
> about Chandler is that, instead of having long threads on an item,  
> we keep only one single item alive, simplifying the management of  
> tasks and events. Well, in the case of recurring events, we achieve  
> the exact opposite.
>
> One solution would be to filter recurring events more drastically  
> when displaying Mail. That certainly points to the idea of having a  
> specialized view for Mail rather than using the same Triage Table  
> View...
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe



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