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re: Timestamp feature for Description field in Projects/Actions

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:15:43 +0000

Author: Kenneth Glade
Comment: I have done this in my Notes using a custom button on the toolbar, using the formula:

@Command([EditInsertText];@Text(@Now))

I just hit the button in any text entry field and get a time / date stamp.

I have another, just for the date, with the similar formula:

@Command([EditInsertText];@Text(@Today))

re: Ability to create New Project in Link to Existing Project view

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:17:56 +0000

Author: Kenneth Glade
Comment: I really like this idea! It always causes me to stop for a moment, to decide if I already have a project defined so I can choose the correct item from the dropdown. Better in my opinion would be to have just a "...link to project" choice from which I could scan my existing projects and create a new one if I don't find one already created.

re: Ability to create New Project in Link to Existing Project view

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:10:18 +0000

Author: Keith Collyer
Comment: If this was changed as the original proposal and Rainer suggest, then there would seem to be no need for "link to new project" in the drop-down - the only advantage of it being there would be it would save having to wait for the project box to populate. Even then, I have created duplicate projects because I forgot one already existed, so having the current list as a prompt would be very useful.

re: Ability to create New Project in Link to Existing Project view

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:46:58 +0000

Author: Jake Hawkes
Comment: I'm promoting this too.

This would make eProd fit into the common user experience, and would save me having to try and remember all the projects I've already created.

re: Sidebar panel: Add ability to perform actions on what's shown there

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:03:35 +0000

Author: Ryan Heathers
Comment: Definitely. I know this is part of the development plan. More interactive ability on the widgets will be powerful.

re: Mark All Day Events Complete

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:21:05 +0000

Author: Keith Collyer
Comment: As In understand it, the philosophy behind the way calendar entries are treated in eProd is that they are completed by virtue of the fact that the time has passed. I know that it caused more than a few problems when it was possible to make calendar entries as completed.
I still think it would be useful, but I suspect that to make it happen would require quite a bit of thinking on the part of the whoever is creating the requirements and the designers to make it entirely consistent.
So I'm going to vote for, as a way of prompting this line of thought.
See also my previous idea at { Link }

re: Ability to flag tasks/projects in future Today Views.

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:05:29 +0000

Author: Keith Collyer
Comment: Effectively a "Display in Today From..." date? I like it

re: Ability to flag tasks/projects in future Today Views.

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:19:33 +0000

Author: Fred Janssen
Comment: Nice... Very Nice...
White flag for tomorrow's Today view, Green flag for today's...

re: Build Project/Action Templates into eProductivity

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:34:55 +0000

Author: Betty Kumahor
Comment: Would love this! And should make sure to copy all the fields over including the notes section at the bottom of the form/document, as well as any attachments. We have a Lotus Notes product that does do this so (including linked documents) and it works really well.

re: Mark action as CANCELLED

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:48:28 +0000

Author: Kenneth Glade
Comment: What I have been doing is typing the date and "dropped" in the details section of the action, then marking it complete.
If I wanted higher visibility, I'd put [dropped] in the beginning of the action subject, or create a new context called "Dropped"

re: Mark action as CANCELLED

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:19:25 +0000

Author: Ryan Heathers
Comment: Hmm, interesting idea. I'll give that a thumb's up vote.

re: Add "whom" to "Waiting for"

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:30:26 +0000

Author: John Cawrey
Comment: for me this would be a particularly important thing. I have many tasks where I am 'Waiting for' someone else. Usually its an action on one specific person, even though I may want to link several contacts to this action. I dont want all those linked contacts to have this action associated with them in the by entity view.
Cant it be simply a need to add a 'Who' or 'Entity' option if the Context is 'Waiting For' and have this display in the entitity view. That is, on the action form have

Action
Context
When
*Who/Entity* [if Context=WaitingFor]

Within the New Action form, there is no way to associate it with a person(entity) so even now its extra steps to save the action, then find it, then Link to....exisiting contact. And what if the contact doesnt exist yet??

I think this would merit more thinking, and so I vote it up.

I am new to eProductivity, so I am still learning the basics, please bear with me.

re: Option to use Quickr as reference db

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:57:27 +0000

Author: John Palmer
Comment: @Vaughan - just took a look and our admins have us set to "No" as a roaming user with no ability to change it. And trying to convince the admins to change ANYTHING . . . well . . . you know.

re: Option to use Quickr as reference db

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:28:43 +0000

Author: Vaughan Rivett
Comment: If you use your Personal Journal as your quick reference database (you have to replace the design), enable roaming profiles in your Lotus Domino person document, then it will replicate automatically to all of your machines.

re: Prompt to create Additional Next Actions when saving a project

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:25:43 +0000

Author: Rainer Fuchs
Comment: I like this too.

Maybe I am deviating from the "purity" of GTD but in my experience many projects have several actions that can occur simultaneously and are not linearly dependent on each other.

Obviously, you can only execute one action at a time, but for example, if my project is to complete a presentation that requires input from a few coworkers and I can send off a couple of email messages to my colleagues and then begin to draft a presentation while waiting for their feedback, I'd rather see "email to Joe", "email to Jane", and "draft presentation" all as next actions on my list, rather then having to promote several actions to next action status in a very short span of time.

re: Buttons and icons

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:42:44 +0000

Author: Keith Collyer
Comment: Just commenting to prod this one up the list as I can only vote once ;-)

re: Option to use Quickr as reference db

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:18:32 +0000

Author: Fred Janssen
Comment: Nice one...

re: Webinar

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:28:38 +0000

Author: Michel Van der Poorten
Comment: Do you record the webinar? If so, could you please post it online? I missed last week's due to an urgency. However, I'm still interested in its content.

thanks for your help!

re: Prompt to create Additional Next Actions when saving a project

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:57:34 +0000

Author: Keith Collyer
Comment: If adhering to GtD, only the first should be a "Next Action", but this is an excellent idea.

re: Prompt to create Additional Next Actions when saving a project

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:52:49 +0000

Author: Ryan Heathers
Comment: Yes, I like your thinking. Definitely an improvement on my idea.