Re: Re: Pdesk Manual Question 3

My major limitations with using Progect are these:

* I can't easily shuffle tasks around (drag and drop would be awesome)
* I like being able to see more at a time, and the lack of a small font in
Progect is a problem for me.
* My ADD means I need help identifying what to do next. A LifeBalance
product is probably what I need, but I can't bring myself to pay that much
for it!

My requests:

1. Make use of custom fonts like Plucker OR have at least one tiny font
available for high resolution devices
2. Allow for "inline" editing of task descriptions just like the ToDo app
with a "details" button for editing the other information.
3. Allow for easier rearranging of task items.
4. Include fields for "importance" and "difficulty" (similar to LifeBalance)
with a couple sort options and view options so that identifying "Next
Actions" (GTD-speak) is aided by the computing power of the device.

On 4/2/06, Judd Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Each app keeps its own set of category names. Each app also keeps a 4 bit
> wide set of integers which are used in records to represent which of the
> 16
> category names stored by the app apply to this record.
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> The numbers are assigned in no particular order. So, If another app wants
> to
> create a record in the ToDo pdb with a category which matches one of its
> own, it has to go digging about inside the ToDo db to figure out if 1) any
> of the ToDo Categories match the string it has, and 2) which integer is
> used
> to represent that ToDo category.
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> I am not sure if the API makes this search hard or does not even provide
> the
> function. For whatever reason, almost no-one tries to keep the categories
> consistent across apps.
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> Hope that helps. :-)
>
> Judd
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> On 4/2/06, John Stanley <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Judd Rogers wrote:
> > > The way Palm OS manages categories makes it hard to share them across
> > > applications. Thus, tasks exported/linked from progect to the ToDo app
> > can't
> > > carry over the category which limits the value of the feature.
> > >
> > > Judd
> >
> > Well, I haven't tried doing what you're talking about (linking Progect
> > records to Todo records), so that may fuel some of my lack of
> > understanding.  Please keep this in mind when you respond...
> >
> > I don't understand what the Palm OS has to do with not being able to
> > transfer a category between Progect and Todo.  At the base conceptual
> > level, a category is simply a text-string tag/label that's attached to a
> > record.    (I know it's not stored exactly that way in the raw
> > record-data, but that IS what the record-data represents...)
> >
> > What does "Palm" do that interfeers with transfering a text-string tag
> > between the two apps?
> >
> >       ... John S.
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