Stamping and Collections

• Difference between stamping an item and creating a collection:
  • Stamping an item means there is no need for elaboration. [USc] If you stamp a Mail with the Task stamp, it means the Mail IS the Task (ie. Bob sends his wife Joan an email: Please pick up eggs on the way home.)
  • Stamped item pairs share 1 detail view and 1 set of attribute values for Status, Priority, Do on time, Collections, Projects
  • Collection item groups have different detail views and different attribute values for Status, Priority, Do on time, Collections, Projects

• • [VD] There should be visual affordances for showing that an item is: 1) stamped, 2) member of collections
  • Under the hood, stamped item pairs are strongly linked items
• There needs to be a seemless workflow from stamping an item to going back to the item to elaborate
• Deleting a stamped T/M or C/M item from a Task/Calendar collection = Cancelling the T/C item
• A stamped item can have dependencies (T/M) and can be part of a recurring event series (C/M)
  • [VD] There should be a visual affordance for showing blocked Tasks
• For any stamped item, the T/C part of the item pair is the primary item
• In a mixed view, stamped item pairs show up twice in any view sorted by time: 1) Date email was received and 2) Do on date of the Task or Start time of the Calendar event
• We will go with the 3-pane view. If there is Dev push-back, what are some alternatives?
  • A la Net Newswire, we will give people the option to have a classic 3-pane view (like Apple Mail) OR a a layout of 3 vertical panes

• [OI] Do we want to have requestor/requestee?
• [OI] Should we allow users to put members of a stamped item pair into different collections? Are there compelling use cases for this? [Mitch]
• [OI] What's the workflow for mapping attributes of stamped item pairs? From=Organizer=Requestor? To=Attendees=Requestee?
• [OI] How does the Do on attribute map to the Start time, End time attributes for Calendar events?

Stamped Detail View

• [OI] What are the status attributes?

Sharing

• UNIX model for administrating passwords. Sharer can't see Sharee's password even if Sharer changes it.

-- MimiYin - 27 Jan 2004