Stamping and collections use case: Ed and Ted

Scenario

• Ed gets an email from his son Ted, who is away at boarding school, reminding him that this Saturday he's coming from school and they're supposed to get started studying for the SAT.
• Ed stamps the email as a calendar item and put it on his calendar.
• Ed also stamps the email as a task.
• Later, Ed comes back jots down a bunch of tasks he needs to do in order to do that.
• Ed then replies to his son with a list of tasks that his son needs to do before Saturday.
• Ed also looks for and finds a note he created a couple of months ago that has a list of study guides recommended by Ted's college counselor and would like to associate it with Ted's emails and these tasks.

Use case workflow

• Ed clicks in the "calendar" column next to Ted's email.
• Calendar attributes are added to the detail view of Ted's email, mapping the email's To:, From: and Subject: attributes to the calendar item's To:, From:, Headline attributes.
• Ed adds a reminder to remind him of the event 2 days before it happens and then again 15 minutes before it happens.
• Ed clicks in the "task" column next to Ted's email. He has a choice of various different kinds of "Todo" statii in a pull-down menu. Ed doesn't choose any of them and gets the default: Green for Unblocked Todo.
• Later, Ed comes back and adds more Tasks using the universal text box thereby creating a collection which becomes the default collection for Ted's email.
• Ted's email is now part of a collection that can be found in the "See also" section of the email's detail view.
• This time, Ed gets more creative with his Tasks and labels some tasks as "blocked" and some tasks as "waiting on"
• "Blocked" and "waiting on" attribute fields appear in the status section of the Task's detail view
• Ed then replies to his son's email. The email is automatically added to the Default collection containing Ted's original email and the Tasks that Ed added. Ed can separate out the email thread from the tasks if he wants to by creating a new collection and putting the email in it. If he does that, Chandler will know to automatically emails in the same thread to the email thread collection.
• Later on, Ed comes across the note recommending study guides and DnDs^? it onto Ted's email, thereby adding it to the default collection.
• Ed opens up the default collection and reorders the items so that the note come after after the Task item: Buy study guides.
• Later on, Ed decides to create a separate collection to store SAT resource information and moves the note to this new collection.

-- MimiYin - 21 Feb 2004