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[Luca Invernizzi <invernizzi.l@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been thinking about how to support "projects" to categorize tasks.
I haven't been able to find a big difference between a project and a task.
Let me explain:
I can mark a task with a tag(/project), and when I do it  that task
and its children appear
under the tag(/project) filtered view.
Tags(or projects) are abstract concepts, so they don't have due dates
or any other special attributes. Maybe I can tag a project (while it
doesn't make sense to "project a tag"), but it's just
a matter of adding automatically a tag when another is present.
Another difference is that a task
cannot be part of two projects, but this is also easy to obtain.

The real change comes in the UI. I feel that, both in the normal and
the work views,  the users would like to have tasks listed under their
project of competence. So, every project would be a
root node in our tree view, and the "really" root tasks would be child
of these projects.
Project could be highlighted to make them stand out (bold text, color,
you name it), would not be susceptible to clicking (no task editor for
them), and would add tasks with the usual drag and drop interface.

To sum up, couldn't we do project as a special type of tag, that also
appears as a root node in the task view?

Can you think of some use of projects that would not be possible with
this implementation?

Luca


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le vendredi 14 mai 2010 à 10:12 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit :
>
>>   * More categorization power.  "I must add a faux-task in order to
>>     create some categories"  AKA "more project oriented".  Of course,
>>     this can be done well with tags, but maybe the UI is not strong
>>     enough for it or something?
>
> I would be very happy to see mockups or ideas about it. Everybody seems
> to want such a feature but nobody, so far, could think of a UI.
>
>
>>   * Notes.  Tomboy requires Mono which is pretty sizeable on the CD.
>>     It seems to me gtg is similar enough that if it could serve as a
>>     notes tool in general, this could allow Ubuntu to drop Tomboy and
>>     (since fspot is being dropped), maybe drop all of Mono from the CD
>>     and save a LOT of space.
>
> In GTG's early days, I added a "Note" feature. A note was simply a
> special task without start/due date.
>
> There was a button to convert a task to a note and vice versa.
>
> Notes would not appear in the workview and there could be an icon
> besides "tasks without tag" to see only notes.
>
> It was removed because we didn't find a good UI for that tool.
>
> Pretty easy to re-implement currently by defining a special tag (I'm
> volunteering). The only difficult part is to not add too many buttons to
> the interface.
>
>>   * Syncing with <whatever>.  I guess everyone has a favorite thing to
>>     sync with.  Certainly being able to access tasks from more than one
>>     device is important.  Ubuntu One sync would be a selling point for
>>     including in Ubuntu.
>
> Actually, I spend more time explaining to people that we are working on
> it than working on it. Sad.
>
>