Notifications

Status Brainstorm

Structure

• Notifications that show up as items in Processing
  • Capital "N" notifications
• Notifications that pop up dialogs
  • Error messages
• Notifications that show up in Activity monitor / Status bar
  • All notifications: this is the notifications log
  • In re: One-on-one, Rita: Can't make 1PM, how about 2PM?
  • Checked mail at 10:27:43 AM PST
• OS-specific notifications
  • Bouncing icon on Mac OS X dock bar
  • New email icon in system tray of Windows XP
  • Number of new messages Mac OS X dock bar icon

Activity monitor / Status bar

• Status bar at the bottom of the content area is a vertically scrolling marquee of Chandler activity
• Click on Activity monitor to load full text of activity log in Detail view
• When appropriate, click on load arrow to bring item into Processing
• When appropriate, click on x to cancel activity
• Click and hold on status bar to undock the Activity monitor
• activity_monitor.gif:
  

-- MimiYin - 10 Aug 2004