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Tracks is a GTD™ web application, built with Ruby on Rails
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clicking 'due in 2 days' should pop up calendar to edit date #950

Closed dnrce closed 5 years ago

dnrce commented 10 years ago

Migrated from the original issue at https://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets/950

When an action is displayed with a hilited 'due in X days' box, clicking that box should pop up a calendar to edit the due date (a shortcut to opening edit, clicking on the date, clicking commit). Or maybe even fancier you should be able to hover over the date and it should get [<] and [>] arrow "ears" that you can click on to move the date back and forth.

Originally reported by Ben Jackson on September 9, 2009 at 11:19:35 (-0700) against version git-devel

dnrce commented 10 years ago

On September 9, 2009 at 14:18:08 (-0700), epall commented:

I like it. The first modification should have no impact on users who don't change due dates often. It does bring up the question of why you're changing due dates that often, which brings us right back to GTD methodology...

dnrce commented 10 years ago

On September 9, 2009 at 14:33:10 (-0700), Ben Jackson commented:

(I admit, I don't really grok GTD, I just got tracks because I wanted to manage todo items instead of keeping them in a million individual lists!)

In this case the due date was external and moved.

It's not so much that I'm changing due dates a lot, but the current behavior of the down arrow 'edit' access is painful (reported elsewhere by someone). It takes me several tries sometimes to manage to 'edit'. Also, having redundancy in how you can perform actions is good: it makes it more likely that someone just sitting down with the app will try something and have it work.