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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Éamon,

Thanks for your mail, we certainly value user feedback. Don't hesitate
to dump your thoughts on this mailing-list.

Regards,

Bertrand

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Éamon McDonagh<eamon.mcdonagh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> First thanks so much for this software. I've been through paper, text files,
> Toodledo, tracks.tra.in, Thinking Rock, and probably some others I've
> forgotten. What I love most about gtg is the flexibility and the speed.
>
> I didn't know if this group was just for developers, so have just been
> reading mails until now. Often I don't understand the technicalities of the
> discussion, but I read along to inform myself, and it's heartening to see so
> many people caring so much about the product.
>
> It was only when I saw Thomas Schutzmeier's input being so gratefully
> received that I thought to mail.
>
> I think I can work around the concurrent vs. sequential subtasks just by
> listing tasks on the parent (I do it with # instead of -) and then making
> them active (put - at the start, move the cursor and hit enter) when
> appropriate.
>
> My problem is more that I don't know if a task is a subtask or a main task.
> I currently try to work around this by naming convention, with the top task
> prefixed p- meaning project, and t-meaning task. I rarely have to go to more
> levels, but I guess I could do t1-, etc. However, this takes manual
> maintenance, and a big part of my weekly review is fixing up tasks without
> the correct prefixes, and projects left without next actions.
>
> What would be great would be a way of (in increasing order of usefulness)
> - knowing that this task has a parent
> - being able to navigate to the parent
> - being able to mark task as done and automatically navigate to the parent
>
> The third option here would mean that I get back to the project, and can
> make my decision on next action (often just making the next # task active).
>
> Currently if I'm not in the work view, and the project has the same tags,
> and there are no other active tasks, the project becomes active in the work
> view. That's great because once I see a p- prefix I can see it's a project
> without a next action. But it's only in these limited circumstances.
>
> I'm not sure what's possible or not, but I just thought I'd share from a
> user's perspective.
>
> Quite happy to reply to questions you might have if you want to bounce ideas
> off me as a committed user. I'm here for the long haul!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Éamon
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Bertrand Rousseau
> <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>>
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