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My misunderstanding! But thought-provoking

My misunderstanding! But thought-provoking

Posted Dec 19, 2008 9:05 UTC (Fri) by grahamperrin (guest, #55680)
In reply to: On topic: using collections, not mis-understanding the dashboard by grahamperrin
Parent article: Chandler finally reaches a 1.0 release

I am wrong!

Sometimes it helps to think aloud (write) before I realise such things.

Indeed, this behaviour is interesting.

My first guess:

* it's not usual to delete some thing.

More usual:

* change the nature of the thing.

Changing its nature may be:

* triage to: done
* triage to: later
* add to calendar, or remove from calendar.

Let's rewind.

Q: Why did you create the item? (If it wasn't a note, task, event, whatever, then what was it?)

The question of most relevance:

Q: Why did you immediately delete it?


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Reasons for immediately deleting something

Posted Dec 19, 2008 9:09 UTC (Fri) by grahamperrin (guest, #55680) [Link]

In testing: I might wish to immediately delete some thing that is not real.

In real life: I add real things to Chandler.

I suspect that this workflow issue is perceived only when working with items (notes, events, tasks,
whatever) that are for test purposes, not for real.

If what you entered in Chandler was a passing thought, worthy of noting, even momentarily:

* allow yourself that thought.

Your thought was real. In Chandler, mark your note of that momentary thought as:

* done.

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