RE: [Evolution] Todo lists

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Musgrove [mailto:TomM pentawall com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:29 PM
> To: evolution helixcode com
> Subject: [Evolution] Todo lists
>
> Many todo lists have only two states for the todo - done or not done.
> Additionally, they do not allow for updates/actions that have 
> been done
> regarding the todo.
>
> What I propose is adding a 'partially completed state'- that 
> allows for
> tracking progress along a todo.  I would also add an area for 
> additional
> notes about the todo to further describe it's state of progress, etc.
>
> For instance a todo of setting up an appointment
>
> begin todo
>
> Call Sue's secretary and set up an appointment in the near future...
>
> note 1) called Sue, her secretary set up a tentative date of 
> DD/MM/YY, she
> should give a solid confirmation or change of plans this monday
>
> note 2)  Sues secratry called, the new appointment date is DD/MM/YY
>
> end todo

Are you seeing these as just notes attached to the task?  I'd like to see
the option to have "complete able" notes as part of a larger task.  The
categories feature in outlook just doesn't quite cut it, for what I need to
do.  I need to be able to have groups of tasks under a single task.  One of
my co-workers has written something that's part of what we'd like, but it's
not a part of my mail client, it's webased, so I don't use it that much.
Anyway, I'll try to get a generic copy online to look at someplace, it's
definitely better than the tasks thing that's in outlook, at least for tech
support people.

> Now for an individual working on their own, this is less 
> important.  But
> when you are working with a group of people, it's important 
> to know wheter a
> task has been initialized and what state the task is in.  To 
> my knowledge,
> most task/todo list software does not have this 
> functionality.  The best
> implementation to my mind would be using a nesting widget ie 
> a rotating
> triangle that you click on to expand/colapse a thread ( I 
> seem to vaguely
> recall Netscapes newsgroup functionality doing this, it seems 
> more intuitive
> to me then the + in a box widget, but either way is fine.  I 
> suppose the +
> in a box would be better because of consistency...)

I think that a lot of them offer similar functionality, but I could be
mistaking what exactly you're talking about.  I'll have to compile evolution
again and take a look at the to-do list thing that's in there and see how it
compares to Outlook.  Actually, I have to say that I like the twisty arrows
better, but that might be just me.
        Greg