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[Shahar Or <shahar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah! I wondered why I don't get responses!

Thanks. Here it is.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Lionel Dricot<ploum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Shahar,
>
> Could you post your mail on the list ? It's very informative but I think
> you sent it only to me ;-)
>
> Lionel
>
>> I immediately think of an interface kind of like mindmaps.
>>
>> I imagine that it would be ideal for the visual representation of
>> father-child hierarchies of tasks.
>>
>> And I imagine that the creation, listing and editing of tasks
>> information would be all from this interface.
>>
>> Example usage of navigation:
>>
>> One task is always the 'active' task, which is highlighted and in the
>> middle of the window.
>> To go to the parent of this task I click the up arrow button. Now the
>> parent task is the active task.
>> To go to one of the children tasks, I click down. And I use the right
>> and left arrows to move between the children tasks of the same parent.
>> A click of the mouse on a task is enough to make that task the active
>> one and the view travels to it. Right-clicking a task brings a context
>> menu in which I can select relevant actions like 'dismiss', 'complete'
>> and so on.
>>
>> Example usage of editing:
>>
>> To create a child task of the current active task, I click the 'c'
>> button. Immediately a child is created and I edit it's name and the
>> details in it and type in tags just like I normally would. If I enter
>> child-tasks in that task using the '- <task>' format, they get created
>> immediately in the "mindmap" interface visually.
>>
>> Of course there are keyboard shortcuts for everything which will make
>> working with it a delight with some exercise.
>>
>> Tasks which have no children will be colored differently, so that it
>> will be easy to spot them out of the rest (these are the tasks that
>> can be done now).
>>
>> The view can be filtered using tags. The list of tags can be brought
>> down by clicking somewhere and then I can select by which tags to
>> filter the visible tasks.
>>
>> I think that many neat and usable things can be achieved with this
>> kind of interface, like using the positioning and size of tasks to
>> indicate information about them like their due date or whether they
>> have certain tags.
>>
>> I'm not a developer so I'll leave the rest up to you friends.
>>
>> Many blessings.
>>
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