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4 Responses to “Next Steps for the Task Stamp”

1. Bonnie Shull Says:
   June 28th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

   I am looking at using Chandler as my primary PIM and project manager. I love the workflow model. Its brilliant. Tasks, contacts, and recurring calendar events are my biggest needs.

   Starring items would not work as well for me as tasks. A very important thing I need for tasks is the ability to enter deadlines and see my tasks organized by those deadlines. I don’t propose this instead of the Now/ Later/ Done system, but adjunct to.

   The recurring event feature in the calendar entry form only allows for something that occurs on the same day every month, (say the 22nd of each month), but I find that many events actually recur on a fourth Saturday of every month style format.

   I really, really need contacts with a decent search, filter, and export capability.

   A suggestion: Instead of trying to build the application to satisfy only one segment of the user base, why don’t you use configurable modules? The people that like stars can choose the star module, the people who like Tasks can choose the task module, etc.

2. Richard Kowalski Says:
   July 14th, 2008 at 7:01 am

   Thanks for the software. I just starring using it, and love the ease of working with it. It is very intuitive and I hope to work with it especially if promised improvements are accomplished. I really applaud you adding the Contacts feature, and would also like to see a NOTES feature, which would be a compilation of reference information and not necessarily a “to do” item.

   Thanks again

3. Mimi Yin Says:
   July 14th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

   Hi Bonnie,

   Yes I agree, a configurable Chandler would be the most scalable solution to user preference issues like this one.

   Re: recurrence rules. Nick Parlante has just contributed a patch that would allow you to do “Every 4th Saturday of the Month” style recurring events, along with a few other additional options as well. http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-users/2008-July/002096.html

   Grant will be releasing a “test release” that users can try out before it gets incorporated into an official release. So if you’re interested, keep an eye out for it over the next week. We will be announcing it here.

   Best,
   Mimi

4. Mimi Yin Says:
   July 14th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

   Hi Richard,

   I agree that a dedicated NOTES or REFERENCE feature would be useful. In the past, we’ve talked about adding a “RESOURCE” item type that would also allow you to attach files…which is more than you’re asking for, but I think at a high level, the ideas are similar: Some way to keep track of “reference material” that you want to keep around forever, just in case.

   https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11339

   Best,
   Mimi

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