Misinterpretation of Dashboard and Calendar icons

I click All.

I click Dashboard.

I select a major event in April, intending to schedule some minor events in the same week.

I click Calendar.

I look for the calendar. I look again for the calendar.

I use the View menu for a calendar view of things. I see the reassuringly ticked word
√ Calendar
but I see no calendar.

I use the View menu to Go to Today. Maybe this will go to the calendar.

Chandler appears to resist. I'm stuck with a list view that remains focused on April (not today).

I click and control-click the mini-calendar in various ways, hoping for a maxi-calendar to appear. I fail.

Appreciating the dashboard for what it is

It's a dashboard. A dashboard is not a calendar. A dashboard is often more effective.

Discovering calendar views of a collection-based event

I realise that calendar views are impossible for as long as I'm in Dashboard.

I click a collection. Finally, I gain a calendar view of an event.

Conclusions and suggestions

Calendar button bears a misleading label

Calendar does not always mean calendar!

Suggestions

Events might be a more proper label.

Ideally, context sensitive.

Calendar button bears a misleading icon

The calendar icon promises a calendar. For the four default (popular) collections — Dashboard, In, Out, Trash — the promise is broken.

We need an icon that signifies events without promising a calendar.

Suggestion

Maybe adapt the clock/calendar icon. Let's not have too many icons.

Fluffy collective quick entry calendar

In Apple iCal, I had a calendar for things that belonged no-where else. I named that calendar fluff.

On Chandler Hub, I have a fluff collection. (What was previously in iCal is now on the Hub, and in iCal I continue to work with this new bundle of fluff.)

I might use this collection whenever I wish to quickly create an event that belongs in no other collection.

I have moved the fluff to the head of my ordered list. By coincidence I how have a thin dividing line between Trash and fluff.

What if you wish for a quickly-entered event to appear no-where other than Dashboard?

As your starting point, use:

• the Dashboard and the Quick Entry Field.

-- GrahamPerrin - 07 Sep 2009