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an88zi"Chandler is an open source Note-to-Self Organizer. It features calendaring, task and note management and consists of a desktop application, web application and a free sharing and back-up service called Chandler Hub.
Our goal is to serve the way people actually work, independently and together, particularly in small groups, a market segment we believe is underserved. Our belief is that personal and collaborative information work is by nature iterative and that the existing binary Done/Not-Done, Read/Unread, Flagged/Unflagged paradigm in productivity software poorly accommodates the reality of how people work.
We are also committed to breaking down technological barriers that prevent effective collaboration." -
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What is Chandler? (Chandler as a Product)
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open source Note-to-Self Organizer.
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calendaring, task and note management and consists of a desktop application, web application and a free sharing and back-up service called Chandler Hub.
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Target User
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The Chandler Knowledge Worker
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is more than just a glutton for information.
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Our Target User has few concrete, repetitive responsibilities and keeping track of 'delegated tasks' is just as important to them as tracking their own tasks.
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A single task may languish for days, weeks or months, not because no progress is being made, but simply because dozens of little questions are being asked and answered as a path is cleared to get to a well-defined concrete task that is oftentimes then delegated to someone else.
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In reality, though many of our target users don't know it, they don't really have tasks, they have little projects with many, many hundreds of sub-tasks that are almost impossible to define and keep track of.
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day-to-day reality overwhelms their Inbox, unravel in to-do lists and are downright silly to maintain in a GANTT chart.
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Design Approach
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look at the technological barriers in place that prevent doing something
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There's entirely too much copying and pasting going on.
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Defining the Problem...with Personal Information Management
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A more powerful to-do list might let you string together tasks as a thread of task dependencies, but you need to discipline to keep your task list updated with the stuff that dumps into email.
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could create a rule to automatically file things into a folder. Or you could create a smart folder defined around a rule.
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All of these various affordances for organizing information have their place in life-cycle of any given project, and people have found rather creative ways to work with the tools available to them today.
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Our Diagnosis
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false assumption that information management tasks are binary.
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Most productivity software fail to accommodate the iterative way people work with information and provide poor support for keeping track of everything in between TO-DO and DONE.
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As a result, it's incredibly easy to get sidetracked dealing with new information as it comes in, not because the new things are higher priority or especially urgent, but simply because we're afraid we'll lose track of them if we don't do something about them right now.
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false assumption underlying most productivity software that information and the organizational structures needed to manage that information are essentially static.
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creating an information management environment with built-in workflows that mirror what people hack together today.
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Processing, Organizing and Managing Information
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three basic workflows everybody seems to construct for themselves, regardless of what tools they use, to varying degrees of complexity and automation.
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Assume that everyone always have more than they can handle and nothing gets done in one shot. As a result, people need a way to de-prioritize and defer things that don't need to or can't be addressed right away. And then they need a way to get back to everything they deferred and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
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To further separate not-done stuff into doing NOW versus todo LATER requires additional personal creativity.
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Chandler simply integrates the notion of LATER into basic focus management. Chandler also unifies focus management across all application areas. Notes, Messages, Tasks and Events are all tracked with a single notion of Triage status
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Automatically re-introduce DEFERRED tasks into your FOCUS when the right time comes.
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Process information iteratively. Define what an item is over time
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Chandler lets data flow wherever it needs to go regardless of how it came into being.
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Notes can be addressed and sent out as Email, they're not copied and pasted into email messages. Tasks are scheduled on the Calendar, not linked to an event. Events are sent out as Invitations, not attached to an email message.
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Allow Organization to Change and Flow.
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Add semantics to a Tag and turn it into a Custom Attribute. (Raymond Chandler becomes Author: Raymond Chandler or Project: Raymond Chandler)
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Order items and you have a Cluster: a way to thread items together, a way to reflect dependencies.
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Define a rule to automatically Tag or Label items with Custom Attributes.
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Drag and drop items in and out of the collections in the sidebar if there are exceptions to the rule
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Defining More Problems...with Collaboration
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Collaboration is central to knowledge work, yet it is often tacked on as an afterthought or worse, completely cut off from personal information workflows.
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Iterative Information Management as applied to Collaborating over Email
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sender and recipients can edit Sent messages and send them again as Updates. Repeat as necessary.
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We've integrated sharing with other Chandler users and communicating with everyone else you need to work with by providing a single focal point for sending, editing and updating items. Other Chandler Desktop users receive your items in Chandler and can edit and send them back as updates. At the same time, everyone receives the contents of your Chandler item as text via email.
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Chandler is an open source Note-to-Self Organizer. It features calendaring, task and note management and consists of a desktop application, web application and a free sharing and back-up service called Chandler Hub.
Our goal is to serve the way people actually work, independently and together, particularly in small groups, a market segment we believe is underserved. Our belief is that personal and collaborative information work is by nature iterative and that the existing binary Done/Not-Done, Read/Unread, Flagged/Unflagged paradigm in productivity software poorly accommodates the reality of how people work.
We are also committed to breaking down technological barriers that prevent effective collaboration. Chandler Desktop and Chandler Server are cross-platform and standards-based because we realize that collaboration can't and shouldn't be trapped within a single system. Chandler Server provides web access to shared information that makes it easy for collaborators to hook into Chandler workflows without having to download the Desktop application. -
12 Nov 08
Edison MoraisPrograma de código abero multiplataforma que inova no conceito de mesclar os e-mails com tarefas de coisas a fazer.
software produtividade to-do tarefas email organizacao opensource
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19 Aug 08
Mert NuhogluChandler is an open source Note-to-Self Organizer. It features calendaring, task and note management and consists of a desktop application, web application and a free sharing and back-up service called Chandler Hub.
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Chandler Project is an open source, standards-based personal information manager (PIM) built around small group collaboration and a core set of information management workflows modelled on Inbox usage patterns and David Allen's GTD methodology.
Our goal is to serve the way people actually work, independently and together, particularly in small groups, a market segment we believe is underserved. Our belief is that personal and collaborative information work is by nature iterative and that the existing binary Done/Not-Done, Read/Unread, Flagged/Unflagged paradigm in productivity software poorly accommodates the reality of how people work.
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