Version: 3.4 (using KDE KDE 3.4.0) Installed from: Debian stable Packages OS: Linux Here's a feature I can't believe I've never seen in calendar software: EVENTS trigger a TO-DO entry. Pop-up Alarms have one great shortcoming - they are not *persistent*, and they get forgotten. They are vanishing reminders, at best. I need to make sure I don't forget to perform important tasks. What I need is for an EVENT to cause an entry to be made into the TO-DO list. That TO-DO remains there until I delete it, so I'm sure not to forget the task. Example: The Quarterly report is due next month. Create an Event that triggers a TO-DO item 2 weeks prior to the event. It works much like an Alarm, except that an entry goes onto the TO-DO list: "Prepare Quarterly Report for next month". That TO-DO entry will remain on the list until I manually delete it, and thus I will continually be reminded that this thing needs to get done. Unlike a Pop-up ALARM, which gets dismissed immediately and is forgotten, the TO-DO persists. In fact, this triggered TO-DO could simply be another type of REMINDER. Just modify the REMINDER to have an option to "Post to TO-DOs"! You could have the triggered TO-DO blink so that the user notices that there has been a new entry added to the TO-DO list. The combination TO-DO!/EVENT is sort of similar, but I don't want to have to see the item on the TO-DO list until a time I specify. The combination type entry causes too many items to clutter up the TO-DO box. The behavior of a Triggered TO-DO as I've described closely models the way people work and think about their tasks. Cosmo Lee
On Thursday 21 July 2005 14:40, Cosmo Freund Lee wrote: > What I need is for an EVENT to cause an entry to be made into the TO-DO > list. That TO-DO remains there until I delete it, so I'm sure not to > forget the task. > > Example: > > The Quarterly report is due next month. Create an Event that triggers a > TO-DO item 2 weeks prior to the event. It works much like an Alarm, except > that an entry goes onto the TO-DO list: "Prepare Quarterly Report for next > month". Actually, "Prepare Quarterly Report" shouldn't be an event in the first place, it's a task due at a given time, not an appointment at a specific time. A to-do with a due date will be shown in the agenda view at that date/time anyway. > The combination TO-DO!/EVENT is sort of similar, but I don't want to have > to see the item on the TO-DO list until a time I specify. You know that you can add a start time to a to-do? And you can create a filter (or modify the default filter) to hide all to-dos that have not yet started. That way, the to-do will only be shown when it's relevant. Isn't this exactly what you want? If so, it's already implemented in kde 3.4. Cheers, Reinhold
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