Summary: | Sort todos manually, and automatically number them | ||
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Product: | [Applications] korganizer | Reporter: | Ian <ian> |
Component: | todoview | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | luke-jr+kdebugs |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | RedHat Enterprise Linux | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Ian
2003-11-18 03:41:31 UTC
Korganizer does not organize my schedule ... like an answering machine does not answer telephone calls. Both just record things. I'd like korganizer to schedule todo's and display them with appointments in a common timetable. Very few programs do that and I don't know why. It is quite simple: 1) Generalize todo's and appointments into a common event type. Events need 3 times: start, duration and deadline. For appointments it is simple: start + duration = deadline. Start time for todos can float while start + duration < deadline. Urgency of a todo is based on calculated "slack": start + duration + slack = deadline. 2) Use the classical dimensions of urgency and priority. The simple management rules are: a) Ignore items of low urgency and priority b) Delegate items with high urgency and low priority c) Work on items of low urgency and high priority d) Don't let items get high urgency and high priority. 3) Sort items on their distance from the origin of a 2-dimensional chart. Normalizing slack and priorities is recommended. Important events get low numbers of priority. Todo items with a low "rank" (rank^2 = norm_slack^2 + norm_prio ^2) should be done first and fill the time between appointments. This "diagonal" calculation solves the constant confilct between urgency and priority. For me this would turn korganizer into a killer application. At the moment I'm not using a computer based solution to decide what I do next. But I'd love to use the advantages: 1) I get more time for important things 2) A concise 2 dimensional display of todos 3) Better arrangements of appointments. ATM you won't immediately notice when a new low priority appointment would make you miss an important todo deadline. 4) Estimated completion time for all todos ! 5) Early deadline warnings based on the schedule ! 6) Use the sum of of durations as a personal "load meter" to delegate tasks to the capable person with lowest load. I understand the fears of some people that feel commanded by a computer when they use these features. This scheme is not suited for complicated scenarios, but these require human intellect anyway. It simply solves the common cases. Hopefully we'll see these features someday. If asked to "put up or shut up" I'd have to do the later. Johannes Nieß *** Bug 85497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reassigning all KOrganizer bug reports and wishes to the newly created korganizer-devel mailing list. |