[GOODIE] Personal Information Manager
Joshua Gargus
gargus at cs.ualberta.ca
Thu Apr 13 17:03:47 UTC 2000
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:06:25PM +0200, Stephan Rudlof wrote:
> Dear Joshua,
>
> I just wanted to give feedback of a first look at your organizer from a
> person currently not very experienced in using Morphs!
>
> I think your PIM seems to go into the direction of graphically idea
> development tools (don't know the correct word).
> I would like to have some personal planning tool in the direction of
> MS-Outlook, but not so big, and with
> - priorities for different tasks,
> - overviews of tasks for
> - day,
> - month,
> - year,
> - without time (very important!)
> . Without time, because I want to plan fuzzy with tasks, for which I
> don't want to say exactly, when to do them.
Yes, I'll eventually add this functionality. Right now, I'm more interested
in organizing information than scheduling tasks. For example, how do I locate
that code fragment that someone sent to the list 3 months ago? Hopefully,
I'll be able to come up with a way that mirrors my cognitive processes better
than a regexp search does.
> > I'm not sure what you mean by 'not easily visible'.
>
> An overview about all concepts/ideas/descriptions... at once.
> But probably it is also a question of how and for what to use the PIM.
Oh, that's hard. I do agree that this is one of the major problems with
my current GUI. However, I just wanted to get a GUI going quickly, because
I was getting tired of adding links and creating concepts by typing in the
workspace.
I think that eventually a zoomable or hyperbolic-tree-like
approach might be necessary to get a better overview. Right now it's up to
the person to have an overall idea of the concept graph they are creating; it
might not be easy for someone else to come in and use the structures I've set
up, for instance.
Thanks for the feedback,
Joshua
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stephan
>
> > <snipped>
>
> --
> Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
> "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
> You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
> -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
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