Windows and Linux users: A couple of users have written in to the Users-List about handy tools they’ve found to make it possible to minimize Chandler to the system tray.
Avner recently wrote in to the Users’ List about how he can create new items from his cell phone by sending text messages to Chandler via email and Chandler IMAP folders.
See instructions on how to set up Chandler IMAP folders.
How are you making using of Chandler’s IMAP folders?
…I just figured out a pretty good way to add things to Chandler on the move. I can send texts to e-mail addresses, so I set up a filter to put emails from my cell phone in the proper IMAP folder. It works pretty well for me…
-Avner Shanan-
For a couple of months now, Chandler Hub has supported the ability to sync all of your Chandler data (not just events) onto other iCalendar or CalDAV to applications and tasks.
Chandler notes (starred or plain) should now show up in other iCalendar or CalDAV calendar applications (e.g. Apple iCal, and Lightning) as Tasks (VTODOS).
Here are instructions on how to subscribe to Chandler collections from other calendar applications. (Unfortunately, some Chandler-specific will be lost. e.g. NOW and LATER triage status will both be interpreted as “Not-Done”. Anytime events will look the same as All-day events.)
I also demo this in the second half of the new 3-Minute Feature Tour. Also available (lo-res) on YouTube.
Has anyone made use of this feature yet?
A big piece of upgrading the Hub in recent months has been moving more of our UI to dojo and sprucing up the detail view was one of the main areas we focused on. Travis did most of the work of moving ui code to dojo, and most of the detail view work. I did a final touch-up, standing on the shoulders of giants.
The detail view effort aimed to simplify what users see as they create and edit their data. Now, a simple note looks like this:
We’ve moved the Remove and Save buttons to the top, so they don’t shift around as the detail view size changes. We’ve also simplified the UI for adding the “star” stamp (which used to be called task) and adding to the calendar.
Throughout the new UI, we make use of dojo’s elaborate support for fades, which help make expand and disappear changes easier to follow.
One of these fade-ins happens if you click on “ADD TO CALENDAR” or the event icon.
To reduce clutter, we’ve used more hint-text in widgets and fewer permanent labels. We also hide event related widgets that don’t apply to the current event. So, for example, “anytime” events which don’t have a start time don’t need a timezone, so we don’t display a timezone picker until you choose a start time for your event.
We’ve also made a much-clamored for addition for events, a date picker. Happily, dojo gave us this for free.
Once you fill in a start-date, end-date defaults to start-date.
Finally, we’ve moved our notes field to dojo’s expanding text area. So if you’ve got three pages of notes, the notes field (and the entire detail view pane) will automatically expand to give you room to type everything.
For reference, here’s a snapshot of the old detail view.
We are pleased to announce the release of Chandler 1.0, a “Note-to-Self Organizer” designed for personal and small-group task management and calendaring.
Chandler consists of a desktop application and Chandler Hub, a free sharing service and web application. You can also download and run your own Chandler Server.
Chandler is open source and standards-based.
Chandler aims to provide a more integrated approach to managing information with:
You can download Chandler Desktop, sign up for a free Chandler Hub account and get a tour of the product. Check out the source. And get involved in the project as we set our sights on growing our community. And send your feedback and questions to: chandler-users@osafoundation.org or chat with us on IRC!
We look forward to hearing from you!
The Chandler Team
Plus, 11th hour volunteer contributions for:
Complete lists of feature work and bug fixes for Desktop and Server.
After our preview release last year we heard quite a bit of feedback related to the sharing workflows in the Chandler Web UI. Many people seemed to immediately grasp how useful it is to be able to send links to friends and collaborators that can be plugged into Chandler Desktop or directly into a web browser for instant view-only or view-and-edit access to the contents of a collection. Unfortunately, until Chandler Server 0.15, released in May of this year, actually getting at these links was pretty difficult.
The solution to this problem, the collection sharing dialog you can find on Chandler Hub today, solves this problem and more. Any time you’d like to share your Chandler Hub data with other people or even just other applications you use, this starting point will make everything else easier.
Today we’ll two follow users, Adam and Zed, as they run through a sharing worflow we think you’ll find useful.
Adam and Zed are coaching their sons’ soccer team, the Beagles. Adam has been using Chandler at work, and creates a new collection to help with the mountain of organization that will need to take place. He has published this collection to http://hub.chandlerproject.org and would like Zed to give him some feedback on a proposed practice schedule.
After logging into the Hub Web UI, Adam clicks on the pulldown arrow next to “Soccer” to bring up the collection sharing dialog.
He then clicks on the “invite” button to generate two sharing links.
Finally, he right clicks on the “View and Edit” sharing link and selects Send link…. He could also just copy the link location and paste it manually into the email or instant message program of his choice.
When Zed gets the link he can paste it into his favorite web browser and instantly review and edit Adam’s practice schedule. What’s more, if he wants to start using the Chandler Desktop client, he can use this link to subscribe to this collection there.
Zed’s not ready to take the Chandler Desktop plunge. It’s not that he doesn’t like Chandler, but he’s been a die-hard Apple iCal fan for years. Fortunately, iCal and Chandler work great together. Once Zed pastes the link he received from Adam into his web browser, he’s excited to see a big green button on the left side of the screen labeled “Apple iCal, Google.” He clicks it and follows the instructions in the dialog that appears to add this collection to iCal. Unfortunately, due to underlying technical restrictions he won’t be able to edit the collection or add new events from iCal. Fortunately, Zed has bookmarked the link Adam sent him, and can do all the editing he needs there.
Hub interoperability doesn’t end with support for Apple iCal. Several other clients, including the Lightning Calendaring Extension for Mozilla Thunderbird, have built in support for CalDAV, a calendar sharing standard. Hundreds of feed readers, usually used for keeping track of blogs and news, can subscribe to the Atom based collection feeds provided by Chandler Hub. Instructions for each of these methods can be found in the collection sharing dialog and the Chandler Project wiki.
We’ve decided to roll a Chandler Desktop 1.0 release candidate 2, mainly to address the following:
Windows users who upgraded to version 1.0-rc1 may have run into the following error message when launching Chandler:
“Another Chandler is already running off the same data repository.”
Thanks to reports from users, we’ve now fixed the problem in version 1.0-rc2.
If you download and run the new rc2 version, Chandler should launch and load your data without any problems. However, if you do run into any issues, please let us know at chandler-users@osafoundation.org!
In addition, we have addressed the following three bugs reported by users:
To download the new release, either use the “Check for Updates” feature (via the File >> Check for Updates >> Now menu item), or visit the download page
Thanks to all for your patience in helping us test!
The Chandler Team
Recently, a new user wrote in to the Users List asking if Chandler would be useful for maintaining Family calendars.
David Read responded that he was using Chandler in exactly that way:
Liz,
My family uses Chandler just the way you are describing. Each individual has a calendar and Chandler makes it easy to view each as part of a unified schedule.
The big win for me is that whether I’m home, at work or out of town, I have a way to check upcoming events to be sure I don’t schedule something in conflict (like missing a Parent-Teacher conference).
My mother and in-laws are also local and they love having a way to see upcoming events like the grandchildren’s concerts and dance recitals.
Prior to Chandler (we’ve been using it for over a year now) we maintained a paper-based calendar (really the school calendar with our notes). I can’t imagine going back to that.
Regards,
-Dave
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