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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

This is surely an interesting way of representing and managing task
here. You spot some interesting features here (like task positioning,
etc.) However this is not the direction we've taken so far, and I
don't think our UI will adopt the mind map metaphor soon. As we plan
to have GTG being built as an application separable from its GUI,
maybe some guy could implement such an UI in the future, I don't know.

Anyway, thanks for the ideas

Bertrand

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Shahar Or<shahar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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