Re: Designing "Finding and Reminding"

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:08 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> Thanks for starting this Federico! I'm going to be rather selective in
> what I respond to...
> 
> Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > 1. We add a time-based view of the user's work - a "journal", or
> > "history", or whatever you want to call it.  In it we present files
> > that you have used, conversations you have had, web pages you have
> > visited, etc.  
> > 
> > By now everyone is familiar with my old GUADEC presentation - 
> > http://people.gnome.org/~federico/docs/2008-GUADEC/html/index.html ,
> > the Zeitgeist and gnome-activity-journal efforts, and similar.
> </snip>
> 
> I'm not convinced that a journal view is beneficial. Why do I need to
> know which day or week I touched something? Most of the time, I just
> want to see what I handled recently (trip and slip) and what I've marked
> to come back to (the grip).

I strongly disagree and would very much like a journal view. I often
need to find what I did on a specific day. For example, just this week I
have performed the following

* where did I put those files I was given during a meeting last week
(found meeting date on calender, searched for files created on this day)
* give me all the PDFs that I read in the week leading up to X. X was a
paper deadline, and I needed to check I had referenced all the material
I had read.

John