by OSAF
Philosophy of Chandler 1.0 in a Nutshell
Still to come: Slide decks for "Open source, collaborative design process". "Chandler and David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology".
| PPT, PDF | Are you a Chandler Knowledge Worker? |
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Chandler's Target User is more than a glutton for information. Information is the substance of their work and more information is the output of their work: Research, proposals, priorities, direction and decisions? Somewhere in between, knowledge is gained and shared. |
| PPT, PDF | The Design Philosophy |
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How is Chandler's approach fundamentally different from what's out there today? |
| PPT, PDF | The Basic Elements of Chandler |
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What are the nouns, verbs and adjectives in Chandler? Items, Collections of Items, Kinds of Items, and Attributes of Items. What are they? How do they interact with each other? And how will you interact with them? |
| PPT, PDF | Staying focused |
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Are you Done or Not Done? The limited binary approach of most productivity apps simply fails to accommodate the iterative reality of the way we need to work and massage information over time. The side efffect? Easy to get sidetracked by tasks that compel us to keep going until we finish, not because they're high priority or especially urgent, but simply because we're afraid we'll lose track of them if we don't. Chandler recognizes this fundamental truth about the process of information work and has restructured the PIM paradigm around helping you keep track of baby steps. The side effect? Easy to stay-focused. |
| PPT, PDF | Email as a Verb |
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Do you care more about your email client or the information in your email client? Does your email client care more about your emails or the information in your email? Can your email client tell when you've received a new version of the same content? Does your email client let you edit and change content after the fact? In Chandler, your information comes first, how you share that information (via email or IM or sharing) is up to you and secondary to the app. What matters is the substance of your work, not the it's byproducts. |
| PPT, PDF | Chandler as a System |
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Your PIM needs to be more than a Storage and Retrieval device. PIMs need to transcend Taxonomies and Search to become true information management systems that help you gain an understanding of the work you do through the data you work with. Chandler keeps your runway level decisions in sync with your top-down planning. The side effect? Better, more informed decisions based on real information. |
| PPT, PDF | A PIM built around Human Semantics |
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Chandler is organized around your data and the semantics you attach to it...Not around technologies and features. Collections of Items are centered around concepts that are meaningful to you: Projects, Agendas, and Events, not around which feature you used to create them: Tags, Categories, Facets, Folders, Threads, et cetera. Items are centered around objects that are meaningful to you, Events, Resources, Communications...Not around which file format they're saved in or over which transport protocol you received them: IMAP, Journal.WebDAV, IMIP, iCal, RSS, IM, mailing lists, list-serves, et cetera.) In sum, Chandler strives to break down the technological walls that superficially organize your information into silos that are meaningless to you. In their place, we hope to provide an information management environment that is instead rich in human semantics. |
| PPT, PDF | Chandler as a Platform |
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Furthermore, Chandler, the platform is designed to let you re-define what it means to be a PIM. Add new Kinds of Items. Extend the existing schema of Attributes. Customize the PIM to work around your personal definition of "Personal Information". |
| PPT, PDF | User-centered Sharing |
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Feeling a little selfish lately? Why does sharing and collaboration always mean yet another website to log into, another hard drive to search in, always another place to "share" your information and at the same time "lose track" your information? Chandler introduces "me-centric" sharing and collaboration where shared information comes to you and lives in the same place as all of the other data you hold near and dear. |
| PPT, PDF | Summary |
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Warning: There are large leaps in logic in this slide deck. This is not meant to be consumed on your own. :o) |