Comments on: Habemus Dialogum – We Have a Dialog

By: ununcarne

ununcarne — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:04:50 +0000

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By: The evolution of task management (Things review)

The evolution of task management (Things review) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:21:18 +0000

[...] them, and give us detailed information about what is happening on their side. One great example is this blog post in which they describe the evolution of their “recurring task” dialog, their design [...]

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:29:15 +0000

@Case Larsen: The “xx days/weeks etc. after previous todo is completed” option might be for you. Visualization of a timeline is indeed interesting. In particular for people who use dates a lot (I don’t). It might be nice addition to Things, provided it is implemented in a beautiful, simple, and unobtrusive/optional way.

@David Schloss: Hourly based reminders will not come soon. Right now the workflow of Things is based on days. Allowing hours would open up a completely new chapter. It might be useful though. But before diving into it we are certainly going to have a careful look at use cases o find out how a meaningful implementation might look like. After all, we don’t want to simply copy the existing functionality in iCal.

@Mario Braun: Sure, simply an oversight.

By: Mario Braun

Mario Braun — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:08:24 +0000

Could you please try to make all your dialogues accesible by keyword as well?

In the current public version for example, I cannot access the mini calender for the due date by keyboard, only by mouse.

By: David Schloss

David Schloss — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:35:07 +0000

What a great walkthrough of a process.

Is there going to be a way to set a TIME of both a dated item and a recurring process? Because many recurring processes have to happen for us at a specific time. For example our payroll has to be called in between 4pm and 5pm every two weeks. Having a reminder for the date doesn’t help trigger the person to do the payroll at exactly the right time, so they have to go to ical to do a time based reminder.

By: Case Larsen

Case Larsen — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:52:17 +0000

i respect your dialog choices — preciseness, but an option to not impose a due date.

Does that mean that the task is recreated periodically, but no specific due date is assigned, so it shows up in the “next” focus. I assume multiple copies don’t get created if you just really don’t complete it soon enough.

My preference (with paper planning) was to use something that visualized a timeline rather than a calendar based mechanism since i didn’t need exactness of date but rather a feeling of adequate attention over time.

http://tinyurl.com/2d5rko

i would love for this analog method to inspire a digital implementation since right now, i’ve replaced all my paper based task tracking using Things except for this particular aspect.

By: RichardM

RichardM — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:53:26 +0000

@Jorge – In Prefs – General, click on box next to the “Enable hotkey for Quick Entry Panel” and press F6. Now F6 works the same as iGTD

Great App guys – can’t wait for 1.0.

By: David

David — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:47:53 +0000

Duh. Nevermind. I see the “Today” option is already covered. Sorry. More caffeine!

By: David

David — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:45:03 +0000

We would like to see the option to automatically set recurring events for “Today” as they are created. Is that a planned feature/option?

By: Daniel Beck

Daniel Beck — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:49:20 +0000

Iannis Zannos:
Why don’t you use iCal for events? If iCal doesn’t meet your calendaring needs, why should an app with a different focus? More like crossing the border to featuritis, since the power of Things is its simplicity. But that’s just my opinion.
I thought very briefly about moving to Things with events (lectures, meetings etc) myself, but decided that a task management app shouldn’t be abused as calendar. I use iCal with the incredibly useful iCalViewer, and it works great.
Regards,
Daniel