Re: [Sum] Contacts Design

Actually, no, not in any kind of spec. Vague hand-waving yes, but  
nothing worked out really.

Some issues that come up with this.
1. Are these contact groups dynamically generated (include every  
person that is referred to by items in this collection) OR manually  
pulled together? I can think of scenarios for both.

2. Are these groupings email aliases as well? That opens up a whole  
other can of worms wrt which email address to use in which context.  
For example, I have 1 contact in both Home and Work collections and I  
have personal and work email addresses for that contact, etc, etc.

3. If there is a contacts pane or contacts palette for each  
collection, then how do contacts show up in the main Triage Table  
View if you're triaging them?

4. How do I navigate between a contacts and all the items that point  
to a contact and vice versa? There are infinite possibilities here.

Do you have some immediate use cases you'd like to satisfy? Keeping  
track of whom you're waiting for on any given item is one. There's  
the GTD @so-and-so agenda context. There's searching for stuff  
because you know it came from, went to or had something to do with  
someone....

Mimi

On Jul 10, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:

> Thinking about GTD projects and contacts associated with projects, it
> would be great to be able to link Contacts and Items associated with a
> project. Thinking about Vera's reporting project, it might be useful
> perhaps to see the new items related to the ABC project from  
> Contact XYZ
> last week. Probably all in some spec already...  :-)
>
> Andre
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