Hi Alex,
The mockup is awesome. It did get refined as compared to the previous
ones.
Well, I was wondering, if we could have a search bar right somewhere
in h the right side of the main top bar. GTG needs an efficient search
bar, and since you have included Saved Searches in the sidebar, the
search bar should even be visible prominently.
I also had a doubt as what is the function of Inbox?
I'm also looking forward to the text editor mockup.
Anant
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:42:49 +0200
From: alba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: gtg-contributors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Gtg-contributors] Redesign: Mockups and Stuff (Round 2)
Hey everyone,
today, i was in the mood to do some mockups. I tried to take all your
proposals in consideration and focus on synchronization and
collaboration. I'm not finished yet, but i wanted to give you an update.
First of all, i want to make another proposal. GTG currently uses the
"@" to define tags, and having in mind that Bertrand would like to see
collaboration-features, i think it would be better to do it like
twitter and many other applications and use "#" to define Tags, and
"@" to assign tags to people.
For example: Write @Angela to do sth. #Work #Important
BTW: I wouldn't use "Context" instead of "Tags", i'm not a native
english speaker, but i think "Context" might be confusing. The word
"Tag" is used by so many other applications as well, just think about
twitter (almost everyone knows what a hashtag is).
If you really want to get rid of "Tags", maybe we could use "Labels"?
The most obvious change is the dark sidebar. I've made an other mockup
with a white sidebar (see light.png), but this led to too much visual
clutter. In my opinion, the whole interface is much more calm with a
dark sidebar.
I also switched back to another font, because i hate the standard
"Sans" font and i think it's ugly as hell.
*View/Filter Controls:*
I designed the controls in the primary toolbar to filter by time and
importance, and the controls in the sidebar strictly to filter by tags
and persons.
Sidebar:
- Inbox (All Tags)
- Saved Searches (I'm not satisfied with the default icon of the saved
searches, any ideas?)
- Tags (I'll add Groups or Folders where you can group tags tomorrow)
- People
Primary Toolbar:
- All Tasks
- Focus (or Workview)
- Scheduled (or Next Tasks)
- Done
*
Sidebar:*
Apart from the new filters, i placed a small "sync-box" at the bottom
of the sidebar. The Sync-Icon is intended to spin, when GTG is
currently synchronizing. It shows you all the services which you are
connected with and gives you the option to add another account.
*Tasks:*
- I'ts a 2-Row Task again.
- I retained the star for priorizing tasks, because i think, having
visual feedback is really important, especially if you have 20+ tasks.
Drag&Drop and this button are not contradictionary, so i think we
should implement both (If you drag a task to the top, the star would
get yellow as well).
- Icons for start and due-date (do you think their meaning is clear?)
*To-Do:*
- Clalendar View
- Maybe another Summary-Page attempt
- Groups/Folders for Tags
- Edit-View
P.S.: Maybe, I'll get access to the github repo this weekend, so you
can get my .xcf files. I have to warn you though, i'm not too
ambitious in naming the layers :-)
Thats it for now, let me know what you think,
Alex
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