2006NOV081313
Where complexity rears it's ugly head
This is not as easy to use as a wiki? Why?
One of the tricks stickit is trying is to use the box as an entry for all data, markup and controls. This means you have to be precise for the computers sake, not the human. Right?
Wrong. Even though I know markdown, know how to enter tags, add appointments to people without some sort of syntax checker or mechanism to correct I get text the stickit cannot handle and I look like a goose :(
Here is the correct text. I corrected a few things, stickit some others. But the point I guess is that to get the things show in this image I have to type the following correctly without error. This exposes a gaping hole in the app, complexity.
For each note you can get away with far to much. So the result can be the user is ambitiously overburden themsleves with too many tasks, yet not acheiving their goals. (see below notes)
I could not:
* create a hyperlinked image. (markdown problem)
* bold text (markdown problem)
* add inline image (stickit engine - sort of works)
* see that I added user Bignose or note (failed - stickit engine)
* add approximate date into cal (sticket engine)
/* ------------- start of stickit note ------------------ */
--#Hello world
This is a **helloworld** message from bootload testing everything in one message. I'll try to do the following:
Todo: do the following tasks
* add tags
* create a link
- add an image
* add a time .. call Bootload or meet Bignose (big@nose.org) tomorrow around 9 a.m.
* call bignose after lunch
Then check the complexity. After reading "Inmates running the asylum, I can't but help feel this is a tool that lets you do tasks ignoring objectives? This app at the moment is re-inventing the commandline.
* are emails handled as threads ?
* does the calendar handle deadlines & ongoing processes ?
* does the software remember ?
* is the software responsible - no confirmation dialogs ?
* is the software flexiable & afford user fudging ?
##programmers trade simplicity for complexity
[link to flickr image](www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/255498582/)
tag as Bootload, 2006, 2006NOV08, 1055 2006NOV081055, @work, @home, "P1 hard", "P2 Easy"
/* ------------- start of stickit note ------------------ */
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2006NOV081313
Where complexity rears it's ugly head
This is not as easy to use as a wiki? Why?
One of the tricks stickit is trying is to use the box as an entry for all data, markup and controls. This means you have to be precise for the computers sake, not the human. Right?
Wrong. Even though I know markdown, know how to enter tags, add appointments to people without some sort of syntax checker or mechanism to correct I get text the stickit cannot handle and I look like a goose :(
Here is the correct text. I corrected a few things, stickit some others. But the point I guess is that to get the things show in this image I have to type the following correctly without error. This exposes a gaping hole in the app, complexity.
For each note you can get away with far to much. So the result can be the user is ambitiously overburden themsleves with too many tasks, yet not acheiving their goals. (see below notes)
I could not:
* create a hyperlinked image. (markdown problem)
* bold text (markdown problem)
* add inline image (stickit engine - sort of works)
* see that I added user Bignose or note (failed - stickit engine)
* add approximate date into cal (sticket engine)
/* ------------- start of stickit note ------------------ */
--#Hello world
This is a **helloworld** message from bootload testing everything in one message. I'll try to do the following:
Todo: do the following tasks
* add tags
* create a link
- add an image
* add a time .. call Bootload or meet Bignose (big@nose.org) tomorrow around 9 a.m.
* call bignose after lunch
Then check the complexity. After reading "Inmates running the asylum, I can't but help feel this is a tool that lets you do tasks ignoring objectives? This app at the moment is re-inventing the commandline.
* are emails handled as threads ?
* does the calendar handle deadlines & ongoing processes ?
* does the software remember ?
* is the software responsible - no confirmation dialogs ?
* is the software flexiable & afford user fudging ?
##programmers trade simplicity for complexity
[link to flickr image](www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/255498582/)
tag as Bootload, 2006, 2006NOV08, 1055 2006NOV081055, @work, @home, "P1 hard", "P2 Easy"
/* ------------- start of stickit note ------------------ */
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