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[meg ford <meg387@xxxxxxxxx>]

The primary definition of "Actionable"  in English a legal term meaning
that you can get sued/criminally tried for doing what you are doing, though
:)

The timeline approach to simplifying complex tasks is outlined by Brett
Victor in this article (http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk).

Meg

2012/4/1 Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>

> Am 01.04.2012 06:15, schrieb meg ford:
>
>  Also, on the subject of subtasks, do you think it would be interesting
>> to have a "Timeline" view where users could add and view subtasks as
>> connected to specific tasks? Rather than defining them as a "thing", we
>> could organize a larger task as consisting of smaller tasks, and combine
>> it with the calendar function (so users would be adding and editing
>> subtasks, maybe by drag and drop) along a line that contained the main
>> task, and wouldn't have to use separate actions to define when, etc. I'm
>> not sure how to accomplish this in GTK, but I think it would be nice to
>> allow the user to define many aspects of their tasks simply, treating
>> each task as an object rather something which is defined through a
>> complicated series of  actions via drop-down menus, pop-up windows, etc.
>>
>
> There is a bug/feature request for that:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/**gtg/+bug/495475<https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtg/+bug/495475>
>
> We need somebody who designs and implements that ;)
>
>
>     Can these actions be called "To Do"? That would go along with the
>>    name (To Do and Task Manager), and the HIG says that strings should
>>    be as short as possible.
>>
>
> I am against calling them "To Do". Every active task is "To Do" but we
> want to say that you can do it right now. In my opinion, we should stick to
> "Actionable" from GTD or "Next Action" from other ToDo managers.
>