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[Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx>]

    what did you finally decide?
Nimit Shah,
B Tech 3rd year,
Computer Engineering Department,
SVNIT Surat
Secretary ACM-NIT Surat
www.dude-says.blogspot.com



On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Bug #561092 is related to start time of a day as well. We can keep an
> option for that in preferences.
>   Regarding the interval of the day I think we should keep the text box. I
> find that more comfortable. Also, we can give negative numbers easily in a
> text box. While in a scale, we need to make it larger. We don't know how
> long the user will want the interval to be so we need to keep option from
> -01 to 23 or so.
>
> Nimit Shah,
> B Tech 3rd year,
> Computer Engineering Department,
> SVNIT Surat
> Secretary ACM-NIT Surat
> www.dude-says.blogspot.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am experimenting with my personal GTG workflow. I would like to really
>> leverage WorkView feature: I choose under 20 tasks I can work on then work
>> on one of them. Tasks are often hidden because of the start date, e.g. "Go
>> to a party" is shown in WorkView only on that given date.
>>
>> The current implementation assumes the fact that a new day starts at 6am.
>> If you work late during midnight, you would get many new tasks in the
>> middle of your "work day". We should have an option for changing that.
>>
>> I think that the day could begin even a day earlier for my use case:
>>
>> I work from early morning and rest in the evening. Before I go to bed, I
>> would like to do planning for the next day. After 9pm, GTG would show in
>> WorkView also tasks which start tomorrow.
>> Which
>> I would like to have an option to edit when the day starts. How big the
>> interval could be?
>>  1) 00:00 day before - 23:00 today
>>  2) 12:00 day before - 23:00 today
>>  3) 12:00 day before - 12:00 today
>>
>> I would go with options 1 or 2.
>>
>> I am not sure which widget to use for setting this option. From top of my
>> head, we can have a text field with the format XX:XX and if the user wants
>> to start day before, put a minus before, e.g. 12:00 (today), -21:00 (day
>> before) It sounds like a big hack to me.
>>
>> Another option is to use a scale with a label like it is in Hamster's
>> dialog for activity reminder. http://i.imgur.com/6pjuO.png
>>
>> How should be the start of the day setup? Which widget to use?
>>
>> Izidor
>>
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