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[Radina Matic <radina.matic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Meg seems to be the only native English speaker among us...

How about we launch a poll at GTG blog and ask the users what do they
prefer?

Cheers,
Radina

PS: Apart from this legal connotation, for me personally "actionable" is a
mouthful, like having to chew on an oversized gum... :P


On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 22:27, meg ford <meg387@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Actionable" is used in the book as an adjective ("Is it actionable?"
> p. 51 of the 2001 English edition), but as a title, you would be
> implying that it was a noun, which it is not. The primary meaning of
> the adjective is the legal meaning
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/actionable. Is there any
> place you see it used in the book as a noun? I see "Next Actions", and
> "actionable tasks" (as Bertrand mentioned) but not "Actionable". Also,
> "actionable tasks" is never used as a category or header in the book,
> perhaps because of the ambiguity surrounding this use of the English
> term.
>
> Meg
>
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Bertrand Rousseau
> <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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
>
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