Re: Feature request re repeat enhancements

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Hi Mimi,

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Mimi Yin wrote:
> Thank you for your detailed write-up...see below for more in-line...
>
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Keith Winsor wrote:
>
>> Normal routine involves a lot of calendar use, shuffling 
>> appointments, taking bookings, dealing with sales reps in the day 
>> job... (pop-up calendar would be nice)... it's things like entering 
>> dates, something that I do many tens of times a day, that at the 
>> moment can make Chandler feel clunky... due to my using tablet and 
>> UMPC in slate mode - an interface that allowed a few simple taps and 
>> no typing would be a big improvement.
> As in a mini-calendar drop-down from the date/time fields?
Perfect.
>> I'm not a great fan of the 'auto-triage to Done' idea -  I'd always 
>> worry that something I hadn't notice would be marked Done without my 
>> noticing it. However, disabling it for items stamped as tasks is a 
>> step in the right direction. Maybe disabling for zero-duration events 
>> could be included - I have a good few of those, in lieu of recurring 
>> tasks.
>
> Yup. I think this is going to be our proposal of record for 
> Auto-triage to DONE.
Excellent.
>> I think a 'conflict resolution' screen should pop up whenever a sync 
>> is carried out. Because my wife only uses Chandler as a calendar, she 
>> doesn't get to see the warning icon in triage views, which then stops 
>> her calendar being updated, making us fall out of sync. A screen 
>> listing all sync conflicts and permitting 'Accept all', 'Deny all' 
>> and the other single-item-at-a-time options would be a big improvement.
> Yes that sounds like a serious problem. A good interim solution might 
> be to put up an conflict icon in the sidebar, next to the 
> collection...prompting her to go take a look at it in the 
> All-Application Area.
>
> I've logged a bug to track the 
> issue: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11317
Or make the conflict icon clickable, to route you straight to the cause
of the conflict? Could this take you to the All-Application Area,
filtered to show only conflict items?
>> some of the conflict message themselves could be a little less 
>> cryptic: Rrule, followed by an apparently random string of digits and 
>> letters, could puzzle a more naive user.
> Yes! Thanks for piping up about this. We're working on building a 
> translation layer between the 'data model' and the end-user content 
> model so that we have more control over what we display.
Every release of Chandler sands down a few more of the rough edges, as
you edge steadily towards a polished 1.0 release. It's good to be along
for the ride!

Keith

PS The next thing I'd like to badger for is the ability to paste links
to URLs (to save me having to kludge another Autohotkey script). Being
able to stamp a document on my hard disk as task, or to link to a
OneNote section would be awesome (I'm far too old to use words like
awesome, sorry).

And contacts management - there's a great little web app called Stikkit
that intuits information from post-it note-like diary, task and contact
entries. You have a task that says 'Ring Mimi Yin 555 2345' and a task
that says 'email [email protected]' and Stikkit works out that the
two sets of information belong together and automagically merges them
into a contact record. Now that would be a nice direction for Chandler
to head in. But don't rush, I can wait.    :-)

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