DateLens does a great job in representing calendar activities in a fisheye fashion with versatile user control over the visible time period. However, it would be even better if it can provide visibility control over individual task or series task. I think there are times for certain task which could be trivial in nature (though still require attention), or has a low priority, or is repeated very frequently (every a few days), I would rather them not shown in any other view than the "Day View". Reason is very simple, as they could cause much distraction for me to intepretate the big picture of my activities. Trival or low priority tasks give me a false impression that I am too busy. Repeated tasks would scatter around, giving "Week View", "Month View" or "Year View" a very difficult job in depicting the real task patterns or highlighting important tasks on important dates.
I think giving the option to specify priority/visibility setting (1 to 10 scale, or temperature color scale) when creating tasks could help this a great deal. A threshold slider can then be used to determine the visibility of tasks in a particular calendar view.
What do you think?
Posted
Feb 03 2004, 09:36 PM
by
blackinkbottle