Re: [platform-ui-dev] Proposal: hierarchical Bookmarks and Tasks...

["Bob Foster" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I support Michael Scharf's comments.

I find one of the hardest things to do is keep track of the zillion little
coding details yet undone. As a developer, what I need a whole lot more than
yet another refactoring twist is a sort of "ToDo list on steroids" that is
integrated with the editor and makes it really easy to keep notes and
bookmarks side-by-side. The little TODO comment feature doesn't get it. When
there are hundreds of these in an effectively randomly organized list, they
are worst than useless.

What I have always thought I would like to see (I've never seen it) is
something that is organized like recipes. To accomplish this task, first do
this, then this, etc. Then a way to categorize and organize the recipes,
create new ones, mark things as done, link to files, etc. It would be a
truly great feature if Help for multi-step tasks could be organized this
way.

Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Scharf" <Michael-Scharf@xxxxxx>
To: <platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:31 PM
Subject: [platform-ui-dev] Proposal: hierarchical Bookmarks and Tasks...


> Hi,
>
> Whenever I use bookmarks or add tasks by hand, I am frustrated,
> because they are all put into a linear list. More than a few
> bookmarks/tasks are hard to manage. I would really like to have
> hierarchical bookmarks and tasks.
>
> Some use-cases for bookmarks/tasks:
> - I am trying to learn about some sourcecode or I want to
>    learn about a subsystem (like actions, tables, wizards)
>    For each of the subsystems I collect a set of relevant
>    bookmarks of examples or of how the mechanism works.
> - I am debugging and I note some important "spots"
>    that I want to look at later.
> - I have to implement a feature and I want to add all tasks
>    for that feature into the tasklist (under a common root
>    node)
>
> OK, a simple way out is use prefixes on the item names and
> sort on name to create a custom hierarchy. But that I find
> a bit annoying...
>
> I would also like to have "hand" sorting on bookmarks. This
> is useful when I want to "store" a control flow with bookmarks.
>
> I don't know if this has been proposed before (I couldn't find any
> entry in bugzilla nor anything on the webpage).
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
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