Notes from the hackfest in Bolzano
Filtering
We couldn't come up with a good interface for the filtering options (show web/documents/images/etc.). The main cause of clutter in the timeline is due to Web pages, though. So, let's first do a good job of removing cruft in the Web items. Then we can see how the timeline looks — maybe filtering is not needed after all. One problem at a time.
It sounds like we will definitely need blacklists.
Ideas that need exploration
Assign a color to each file automatically, to make it easier to spot.
Drag files into the future, as reminders that you'll need those files that day ("materials for a conference").
For web data, try two things:
- Group items by domain (*.google.com)
- Hide web pages that were shown for less than N minutes.
Notes on the Calendar widget
This is being reworked in the pretty-calendar branch.
Keyboard navigation of the calendar widget
Focus-in paints focus rectangle on the handle.
Right/left move the handle.
Plus/minus grow and shrink the handle.
Tooltip with key shortcuts?
Up/down change the month, as well as PgUp/PgDown.
Home takes you to today.
Ideas for the timeline view
Items could look like
[icon] One-two-three.jpg 07:05 [open][print][mail][rename] --------------------------------------------------- [icon] Bleh bleh bleh.doc 06:00 ---------------------------------------------------
Here, the mouse is over "One-two-three.jpg". Like in Twitter's web timeline, the actions could fade in when you mouse over the item (open, print, etc.).