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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

2012/4/1 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 :)

Well, we sure don't want to imply that our users perform tasks for
which they may be sued. ;-)

I'm not an English native speaker, so as far as I am concerned, my
first encounter with the word "actionable" was through GTD and task
management. Could you (and anyone who knows) tell us if using this
term is misleading?

> 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
>>
>> 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.
>
>



-- 
Bertrand Rousseau