Seem to be getting on the same page wrt:

• Users can perform extremely lightweight mail Processing by stamping email with a Task stamp or a Calendar stamp
• This creates a small section in the detail view of the email devoted to Task/Calendar attributes
• Users can also create a set of "strongly linked" items (also known as the Default collection in the sketches below) that the user can easily access in the detail view.
• All other collections live in a more obscure place in the detail view.

Still open:

• Do we navigate member items of collections from inside the detail view? (4-pane approach) OR
• Do we navigate member items of collections from the summary view? (3-pane approach)

• A Mail + Calendar + Task item group resulting from stamping shares 1 set of attributes??
  • ie. Statii, priority, do on (start time), alarm, recurring, notes, projects
• A Mail + Calendar + Task item group resulting from stamping belongs to 1 set of collections??

-- MimiYin - 24 Jan 2004

Stamping workflow

• 01_stamping.gif:
  
• User stamps an item (ie. right-click context menu item, toolbar button, click in the "status column" of the item)

• 02_stampeddetail.gif:
  
• Chandler maps attributes from the email to the new task item. The original email header is preserved.

2 approaches: 4-pane and 3-pane

* 06_4pane_overview.gif:

• 3pane.gif:
  

4-pane approach

• 07_4pane_navigatingcoll.gif:
  
• Detail view displays item selected in Summary view
• User opens a collection in the detail view
• The currently displayed item is present in the list of collection members
• User selects another member of the collection
  • Detail view now displays item selected in Detail view
• The detail view switches to the new item

3-pane approach

• 03_3pane_defaultcollection.gif:
  
• Default (strongly linked) collection opens in Summary view (grouped)
  • Two ways to open Default collection: Default button in Status bar of Detail view OR Disclosure triangle on selected item
• To switch collections in the Summary view, user can select a different collection in the Detail view

• 04_3pane_navigatingDcoll.gif:
  

• 05_3pane_navigatingDcoll.gif:
  
• User navigates items in Default collection in the Summary view
• There should always be some visual indicator of the original "selected" item (orange).