[Design] Chandler as a Managed Workspace

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:22 PM 1/8/2008 -0800, Mimi Yin wrote:
>What I'm questioning is the idea for any project, you only have 1
>next action, which is what tools like Omni-Focus assume.

Actually, this isn't true - OmniFocus (and Life Balance, for that 
matter) allow you to indicate whether a project's tasks are serial or 
parallel.  I'm not positive how it's done in OmniFocus (although it 
is certainly listed on their feature map), but in Life Balance it's 
just a checkbox, and the default is parallel.  You have to check the 
box to force the tasks to be serialized.

Of course, even if tasks are available to be done in parallel, they 
may still occur in different contexts, have different lead times/due 
dates, etc.  So, even if they're parallel, they won't necessarily all 
end up in Life Balance's version of "Now" at the same time.  (Some of 
the tasks might even be recurring, and thus come and go repeatedly 
over the life of the project.)