Comments on: New feature design – your opinion needed!

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:04:33 +0000

I’ll prefer option 1.

By: Sander

Sander — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:39:17 +0000

1 please!

By: Diederik

Diederik — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:46:10 +0000

Thanks for voting everybody!

Option 3 is the favorite by far so that makes the decision easy for us. We’ll launch the new seperators in a couple of days.

By: Noel Chidwick

Noel Chidwick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:11 +0000

I’ve got to go with 3, too, with a definite yes please. It’s a scanning thing, really, with the separators acting as titles.

Like the Someday option too.

By: cysoon

cysoon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:29:44 +0000

By: Sillycasper

Sillycasper — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:47:20 +0000

I’ll say 4 but I could live with both.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:49:00 +0000

Both. But default should be:

2. I slightly prefer tasks show above the separator (Alternative 1)

This might not be clear for new users however. Restyle the seperator to indicate more strongly it relates to the content above and not below. (a 0..5% fade for these items?)

By: Patrick Mackaaij

Patrick Mackaaij — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:13:30 +0000

I’d go for alternative 2 as well. The first time I used Thymer I was confused by exactly this choice. Gotten used to it however so I slightly prefer alternative 2 :)

By: peter

peter — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:30:28 +0000

3. with a suggestion – make it visually so the date ‘holds its items’ somehow, so it’s more intuitive.

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:17:25 +0000

3 please :-)

By: MiiLikeU

MiiLikeU — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:51 +0000

Alternative 6:
Put BOTH settings in the settings menu!!!

Edit: Sorry, I mean Alternative 3.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:18:38 +0000

I’ll go for 3 (strongly for tasks being put below the separator).

It seems extremely intuitive for me to first see the day header and then what is planned for it. It adds a lot of readability, especially at the beginning of the timeline. (want to first see “Today” and then see the todo’s for today instead of first seeing the todo’s and then seeing Today.

This layout might lead the way of other interesting features, such as Sticky Todo’s (things that you might want to keep on your mind even when they are planned far up ahead). You might want to do drag and drop them throughout, still you see them every day at the top of your todo list.

By: Diederik

Diederik — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:23:15 +0000

Thanks for voting Sean and Stephan.

A common situation is where you have a dozen tasks due on Friday, but none due on Monday and Tuesday. In that case you can safely schedule some of the tasks to the beginning of the week, without losing track of the real deadlines.

When new tasks pop up throughout the week you can immediately see if you’re going to have time for them this week because the schedule is already made. If you don’t plan ahead which tasks you want to do on which day of the week you can easily get into a “last minute panic” because you won’t notice tasks have been piling up. When Friday morning comes you realize that you can’t possibly get even half of the tasks on the list done. Essentially, the schedule you make by drag-and-dropping tasks reflects when you plan on doing what. And that’s only loosely related to the actual deadlines.

Hope that explains our philosophy :)

By: Stephan

Stephan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:08:59 +0000

I slightly prefer tasks show above the separator (Alternative 1). Somehow I got used to this approach.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:03:46 +0000

I strongly prefer tasks show below the separator (Alternative 2).

I also am confused about the difference in the date on the separator and the one associated with the task. I don’t understand why one can move a task to any separator, but it preserves the same date.

By: Diederik

Diederik — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:25:35 +0000

Thanks for the vote Karan!

By: Karan

Karan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:24:09 +0000

I strongly prefer tasks show below the separator (Alternative 2)