• Now that we're more than a calendar...
• Now that the Dashboard in the calendar app area is a table view, not a calendar view...

We need to reconsider what users see when they launch Chandler for the first time...

See bug: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6545

Here's a first pass at a proposal to help new users understand:

• Faceted sidebar;
• Items can belong in multiple collections;
• Stamping; and
• Triage

Most importantly, we want to make sure users can discover the Calendar UI, which is admittedly a bit tricky in Preview (because we don't yet have a way to choose Table and Calendar view independent of the App areas).

Sidebar

• Launch Chandler with 3 user-defined collections that are included in the sidebar: Home, Work and Fun
• Select the All App area and the Dashboard collection
• Overlay only the Work and Home collections

Items

• Welcome note should be an Addressed, Scheduled Task on the Calendar
  • Addressed as From: OSAF, To: Me, Sent by: OSAF at xxx
  • Marked as an Unread, Inbound message
  • Schedule for Today from 12-1PM
  • Triaged as NOW
  • In the Home and Work collections

• Task: Try sharing a Home task list
• Triaged as LATER
• Custom alarm set for Tomorrow at 8AM
• In the Home collection

• Event: Play around with the Calendar
• Scheduled for Today, 3-4PM
• Triaged as NOW
• In Home collection

• Scheduled Task on the Calendar: Download Chandler
• Triaged as DONE
• Scheduled for Today, 11-11:15AM
• In Work collection

• Scheduled Task on the Calendar: Set up your accounts
• Triaged as LATER
• Scheduled for Today, 4-4:15PM
• In Fun collection

This way, the user will hopefully notice some of the following:

• Items can show up in multiple app ares
• Items can show up in multiple collections
• All 3 Triage statuses / sections
• All items are in the Dashboard
• In the calendar view, if Work is selected, you'll see 2 events in Work, 1 of which has a swatch telling you it's also in Home and 1 event underlayed in Home.
• If Home is selected, you'll see 2 event in Home, 1 of which has a swatch telling you it's also in Work and 1 event underlayed in Work.
• If Fun is selected, the 1 Fun event will overlay on top of the Home and Work calendars.

• ootb_Dashboard.png:
  

• ootb_Work.png:
  

• ootb_Home.png:
  

• ootb_Fun.png: