Content item use cases

Motivation Use cases showing how users will want to add kind characteristics to a Processing item

• Communications and Calendar event
• Bob gets an email from Ted: Want to go with me to Jen's party Saturday night? Attached is the invitation with all the info.
• Bob would like to have Ted's invitation to go to Jen's party on his calendar.
• Bob is too lazy to create a new calendar item and enter in all the info.
• Bob "stamps" the email as a calendar event and throws it on the calendar for Saturday night.
• Now, whenever Bob looks at Ted's email, he can see the calendar event as well and vice versa.

• Communications and Task
• Bob gets an email from his wife June: Please get the oil changed on the way home tonight
• Bob wants to add this request to his "On the way home" task list he's about to print out
• Bob "stamps" the email as a task and puts it in his 'On the way home" task list

• Task and Calendar event
• Rosie is trying to buy a house
• She creates a 'Buy a house" task list
• One of the items on the task list is to talk to a realtor
• Rosie gets a recommendation from a friend to talk to Dan the realtor
• Rosie calls up Dan and sets up an appoint. While she's on the phone she records all of the information for a meeting with Dan in the notes field of the Task: Talk to realtor.
• Now Rosie would like turn the Task: Talk to realtor into an event on her calendar
• Rose "stamps" the Task as a Calendar item and destructively turns the Task into a Calendar event

• Calendar event and Task
• This is less common and mostly to help users deal with "oopies" I meant to enter that as a Task
• Jason enters a "Pick up dry-cleaning Today at 2PM" on his calendar
• He realizes it's really a task, he "stamps" it destructively as a task

• Putting tasks on the Calendar aka Creating Timed Tasks
• This is different from "stamping" a Task as a Calendar event. Proposal There should be simpler affordances for putting Tasks onto calendars than forcing users to thing of "Timed Tasks" as full-fledged calendar events.
• Marisa enters a task to go shopping for a birthday gift for her Mom
• Later on, she decides the best time to do that would be Saturday morning
• She returns to her task item and "puts it on her calendar" for Saturday morning
• She also adds a "Due by" date to remind her that no matter what she has to have bought a present for her Mom by the following Tuesday, the day before she leaves to go visit her Mom in Florida

• Marking an email "To Reply to by"_ (Not technically stamping)
• This is different from "stamping" an email as a Task or a Calendar event. The email is not itself a description of a task, but instead generates the task "Reply to email". This is probably one of the most common use cases that users will encounter in their efforts to process and organize content items.
• The proposal is to provide an easy way for users to mark emails as "To Reply to by" without having to create a separate "Timed Task" related to the original email through an ad-hoc collection. See MarkingUpWorkflow for more

• Notes to Tasks and Calendar events
• Jot down a note, destructively "stamp" into either a task or a calendar event

• Recording verbally communicated Tasks, Resources and Calendar events
• Larry's wife Rhea leaves a message on his cell phone to remember to pick up their dog Gracie from the vet on the way home
• Larry enters the task in Chandler and wants to record that the task was from Rhea, however, he doesn't want to Send the item to anyone.

-- MimiYin - 28 Jul 2004