Tudumo Reminder actions

[Phil]

Hi,

I've just started using a few reminders fpr tasks - to tickle me when
things need to be done at specific times. When the reminder arrives,
I'm given an option to DELETE it, but not COMPLETE it. These actions
are not the same - completed tasks are visible and are archived.
Deleted tasks are gone!

Surely this button is doing the wrong action?

Regards,

Phil Lewis

[Steve Crane]

Clicking Continue on the dialog displays the main Tudumo page, probably with that task selected (but I'm not positive about that), so you can use a hotkey to assign a new status. Pressing '4' sets it to Done.

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Steve Crane
http://craniac.net

[Phil]

Thanks for the help Steve. The continue button does take me to a page
where the task can be seen. It isn't selected, but can be selected adn
seen.

I'm happy, although from a useability viewpoint I still think the
Delete button should actually be a Complete task button. As in "you
get reminded to do something, you do it, you complete it in your list"

Regards,

Phil.

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[Richard Watson]

I think the main button used to be a complete button, but many wanted
to not change the state, just acknowledge it. I could certainly add
the "complete" back. Any opinions?

Regards,
Richard

[Steve Crane]

I'm happy with it the way it is. Changing it back to a Complete button is great but what if I really want to delete it? Maybe add a button for Complete then. Great, but hey sometimes I want to mark it as On Hold, or Waiting For, or Someday/Maybe so let's add buttons for those too. But now the dialog is starting to look like a calculator with all the buttons so maybe replace the individual state buttons with a combobox and a button to action the dialog. But that ends up as being just as many click/keypress actions as are needed right now to choose an action, so is there really any point in making those changes? My suggestion would be to leave the dialog as is but have the task relating to the dialog be selected in Tudumo when Continue is clicked on the dialog. That way setting any state is just a mouse click and number key press away; and delete is still handled by the dialog.

[Aaron King]

I am also not very happy with the current implementation of reminders
-- I set a lot of longer term things to come up at 8am Monday morning
on a particular week, and it does take a while to get through all the
pop-ups. If it is just one pop-up, it works ok, but many doesn't work
well, and even with one it is sometimes still hard to find it if you
have a lot of actions open.

However, I've spent time thinking through how to make it better
without making the dialog too cluttered and haven't come up with
anything that clean. I tend to agree with Steve -- if any actions
that recently had reminders fire and were visible in the current view
could be highlighted somehow (you'd need to do multiple, not just the
last one to make it work well when several reminders are stacjed up),
I think that would solve the problem well enough for now and wouldn't
be too difficult to implement. Maybe even just make it a view to see
all that have fired in the last x amount of time?

I'd still eventually like to see a dialog that handles changing states
and multiple actions better, but not at the cost of making it overly
complicated or too many clicks, and I think the other option would be
good enough for a while.

-- Aaron

On Oct 17, 7:23 am, Steve Crane <steve.cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm happy with it the way it is. Changing it back to a Complete button is
> great but what if I really want to delete it? Maybe add a button for
> Complete then. Great, but hey sometimes I want to mark it as On Hold, or
> Waiting For, or Someday/Maybe so let's add buttons for those too. But now
> the dialog is starting to look like a calculator with all the buttons so
> maybe replace the individual state buttons with a combobox and a button to
> action the dialog. But that ends up as being just as many click/keypress
> actions as are needed right now to choose an action, so is there really any
> point in making those changes? My suggestion would be to leave the dialog as
> is but have the task relating to the dialog be selected in Tudumo when
> Continue is clicked on the dialog. That way setting any state is just a
> mouse click and number key press away; and delete is still handled by the
> dialog.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Richard Watson <rich...@tudumo.com> wrote:
>
> > I think the main button used to be a complete button, but many wanted
> > to not change the state, just acknowledge it.  I could certainly add
> > the "complete" back.  Any opinions?
>
> > Regards,
> > Richard
>

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