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Presentation of the project

Zanshin is trying to provide a software support for the "Getting things done" approach of David Allen. It integrates very well in the KDE environment using Akonadi as a main back-end to store you personal information, providing strong integration with KMail or KOrganizer. Zanshin is targeting tasks management, but in order to provide a note management aspect, Renku, a standalone application is born along the development process. Both are complementary and help the user to keep track of his todo's activities.

Reference : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

Zanshin's Context

Context is a meta-data concept. Since todos/tasks can be related, for instance, to a specific project, it would be nice to express this semantic link : that's where Context rises up. You, as a user, will be able to link any kind of context name to a todo, helping you to organize and give the semantic you want them to have.

Akonadi Backend : The context concept is stored into akonadi through the Akonadi Tag. An item holds a list of Tag that have a name and can be from different types. As a convention, a tag with the custom type "zanshin-context" would be zanshin related, its name, that will be displayed to the user, will depend on what the user as set.

Zanhin User Stories

Inbox and base editing

All done

Projects and task hierarchy basics

All Done

Complete base workflow

All Done

Base workflow convenience

All Done

Context basics

All Done

Context conveniences / Complete projects 1

All Done

Complete contexts 1 / Complete projects 2

As a user I want to filter tasks by context.

Workday view basics

All Done

Workday view convenience

All Done

Navigation Convenience Behavior

All Done

Sorting

As a user I want to sort by title, end-date, due-date : partially done

Purge

purge all completed task in order to clean my tasks lists

Renku User stories

Notes and tags basics

All Done

Complete notes/tags / Task advanced edition bases

All Done

Notes convenience

All Done

Task advanced edition + Delegation

Can propose to someone a task delegation in order to offload work to someone else
task get associated to a context corresponding to a person (find a way to display it)
notification got sent to the person
Technical story : Given a delegated task, when it gets modified the notification is sent to the relevant user

Munich

Delegation

As a user I want to delegate a task to another user.
As a user I want to monitor progress of a delegated task (The progress updates are handled by iTip already).
- As a user I want to see tasks that I assigned to someone but have a visual distinction that I don't have to act on them directly.
(As a user I want to accept or decline a task that was assigned to me.) => This is handled by kmail

Folder / Data sources selection (same for notes and todos)

As a user I want to see tasks in a selected folder
As a user I want to see tasks from multiple selected folders
As a user I want to maintain a list of visible although not necessarily selected folders, so I can quickly enabled the folders as required.
As a user I want to search for new folders to enable, that will then appear in my folder list.
As a user I want to remove folders from my currently visible list.
As a user I want to create new folders
As a user I want share my folders with other users
As a user I want to see to whom a shared folder belongs.

Mockups

Draft UI Mockups, not final.

Mockups by Björn Balazs

File:20120212 ZenshinMockup.ep.zip

Mockups by Christian Mollekopf

File:Cmollekopf zanshinmockup 30 5 2014.ep.zip

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 Zanshin is trying to provide a software support for the "Getting things done" approach of David Allen. It integrates very well
-in the KDE environment using Akonadi as a main back-end to store you personal information. Zanshin is targeting tasks management, but in order to provide a note management aspect, Renku, a standalone application is born along the development process. Both are complementary and help the user to keep track of his todo's activities.
+in the KDE environment using Akonadi as a main back-end to store you personal information, providing strong integration with KMail or KOrganizer. Zanshin is targeting tasks management, but in order to provide a note management aspect, Renku, a standalone application is born along the development process. Both are complementary and help the user to keep track of his todo's activities.
 Reference : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
 = Zanshin's Context =
-Context is a meta-data concept. Since todos/tasks can be related, for instance, to a specific project, it would be nice to express this semantic link : that's where Context rises up. You, as a user, will be able to link any kind of context name to a todo helping you to organize and give the semantic you want them to have.
+Context is a meta-data concept. Since todos/tasks can be related, for instance, to a specific project, it would be nice to express this semantic link : that's where Context rises up. You, as a user, will be able to link any kind of context name to a todo, helping you to organize and give the semantic you want them to have.
-Akonadi Backend : The context concept is stored into akonadi through the Akonadi Item Tag. An item holds a list of Tag that have a name and can be from diffents type. As a convention, a tag related to the type "zanshin-context" would be zanshin related, its name, that will be displayed to the user, will depend on what the user as set.
+Akonadi Backend : The context concept is stored into akonadi through the Akonadi Tag. An item holds a list of Tag that have a name and can be from different types. As a convention, a tag with the custom type "zanshin-context" would be zanshin related, its name, that will be displayed to the user, will depend on what the user as set.
-= User Stories =
+=Zanhin User Stories =
-Requirements for Zanshin in the User-Story format, sorted by priority.
-== Inbox and base editing ==
+=== Inbox and base editing ===
-* <strike>display the inbox in order to see the notes and task which need to be orginazed (e.g. any task or note not associated to any project, context or tag)</strike> : Done
+All done
-* <strike>create task by typing a title in the Inbox in order to collect ideas while reflecting on my life</strike> : Done
+=== Projects and task hierarchy basics ===
-* <strike>mark a task as completed in order to have a warm feeling about getting it done</strike> : Done
+All Done
-* <strike>delete a simple task so it is removed in order to clean old useless tasks</strike> : AT to do
+=== Complete base workflow ===
-* <strike>modify  the due date in order to know when the task has to be completed</strike> : Done
+All Done
+=== Base workflow convenience ===
+All Done
+=== Context basics ===
+All Done
+=== Context conveniences / Complete projects 1 ===
+All Done
+=== Complete contexts 1 / Complete projects 2 ===
+* As a user I want to filter tasks by context.
-== Projects and task hierarchy basics ==
+=== Workday view basics ===
-* <strike>Select project to see the notes and tasks it contains</strike> : Done
+All Done
-* <strike>Create project</strike> : Done
+=== Workday view convenience ===
-* <strike>Associate a task to a project  (associated to only one project) </strike> : Done
+All Done
-* <strike>Associate a task to a task ( only one parent task )</strike> : Done ( side-effect : see reflexive linking )
+===  Navigation Convenience Behavior ===
+All Done
+=== Sorting ===
+* As a user I want to sort by title, end-date, due-date : partially done
+=== Purge ===
+* purge all completed task in order to clean my tasks lists
-== Complete base workflow ==
+= Renku User stories =
-* <strike>Dissociate a task from a project (get back in inbox)</strike> : Done
+=== Notes and tags basics ===
-* <strike>deleting parent task with all its children set in order to clean old useless tasks, in such case the user will be warned</strike> : AT to do
+All Done
-* <strike>Filter out tasks which do not match by title nor text in order to find specific tasks</strike> : AT to do
+===Complete notes/tags / Task advanced edition bases ===
-* <strike>can visually distinguish critical tasks that have past the due date with a different aspect in order to have them stand out</strike> : AT to do ?
+All Done
+=== Notes convenience ===
+All Done
-== Base workflow convenience ==
+=== Tags ===
-*  <strike>create a task from Krunner by typing a title in order not to forget the current idea I'm having. </strike> : Done (no AT possible)
+Note: Context are only in Zanshin and Tag are only in Renku
-* <strike>create task by typing its  title in a project area in order to refine my project steps</strike> : Done
+* As a user I want to filter notes by tags
-* <strike>modify a title of a task in order to fix a typo or refine its definition</strike> : Done
-* <strike>can see tasks that need to be done for today with a different aspects in order to have them stand out</strike> : Done (no AT possible)
-== Context basics ==
+=== Task advanced edition + Delegation ===
-* <strike>Select a context  in order to see all its associated tasks</strike> : Done
-* <strike>Create a context </strike> : Done
-* <strike>Display the Context view in order to see all existing contexts</strike> : Done
-* <strike>Associate a task to a context in order to describe the task resources (can be a person)</strike> : Done
-== Context conveniences / Complete projects 1 ==
-* <strike>create task by typing its  title from the context view in order to add faster a task associated to a context </strike> : Done
-* <strike>Delete project ( delete all its content ) </strike> :  Done
-== Complete contexts 1 / Complete projects 2 ==
-* <strike>Delete a context (if a task isn't associated with any context or project, it is not deleted but sent to the inbox)</strike> : Needs Attention (see etherpad)
-* <strike>Rename a project</strike> : Done
-* <strike>Dissociate a task from a context in order to fix a mistake</strike> : Done
-* <strike>Dissociate a task from a project (associated to only one project)</strike> : AT to do
-* <strike>Rename a context</strike> : Done
-== Notes and tags basics ==
-* <strike>Display the tag view in order to see all exisiting tags </strike> : Done
-* <strike>Associate a task to a tag in order to organize knowledge </strike> : Done
-* <strike>Select a tag in order to see all its associated artifacts</strike> : Done
-* <strike>create note by typing a title from the Inbox in order to collect knowledge</strike> : TODO
-* <strike>Create a tag</strike> : Done
-== Complete notes/tags / Task advanced edition bases ==
-* <strike>modify the text of the task in order to save details about a task or add additional information</strike> : AT Tdo
-* modify a text of the note in order to save details about a note or add additional information : TODO
-* Delete a tag (if a note isn't associated with any tag or project, it is not deleted but sent to the inbox) : TO DIG, franck on it
-== Notes convenience ==
-* create an note by typing its title in a tag area in order to organize personal knowledge around this tag
-* Dissociate a note from a tag in order to fix a mistake
-* modify a title of a note in order to fix a typo or refine its definition
-== Workday view basics ==
-* <strike>display a workday view (start date or due date in the past) in order to know what I'm supposed to do</strike> : Done
-* <strike>modify the start date of tasks for today in order to have them plan from today (today view for instance)</strike> : AT to finish (in workday-starbutton.feature)
-== Workday view convenience ==
-* <strike>Modify the start date of a task in order to schedule it for a given day</strike> : Done
-* <strike>Filter out task with a start in the future in order to focus on what I should work on now</strike> : To Do
-* <strike>Filter out completed task views in order to focus on what is remaining only</strike> : To Do
-== Purge ==
-* purge all completed task in order to clean my tasks lists
-== Task advanced edition + Delegation ==
-* modify the progress information of a task in percent in order to roughly know how much work is left
-* modify the duration information of a task in order to give a estimation on this workload
 * Can propose to someone a task delegation in order to offload work to someone else
-* task get associated to a context corresponding to a person
+* task get associated to a context corresponding to a person (find a way to display it)
 * notification got sent to the person
 * Technical story :  Given a delegated task, when it gets modified the notification is sent to the relevant user
-==  Navigation Convenience Behavior ==
+= Munich =
-* Able to give focus to available page to move from on to an other easily (eg : alt + up)
-* Drag and drop dialog from a task selection to move it without using the mouse (as "m" of Kmail) + filtering
-* Navigation dialog to change view without clicking / moving the mouse (as "J" of Kmail) + filtering
-== Munich ==
 === Delegation ===
 * As a user I want to delegate a task to another user.
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 * (As a user I want to accept or decline a task that was assigned to me.) => This is handled by kmail
-=== Folder selection (same for notes and todos) ===
+=== Folder / Data sources selection (same for notes and todos) ===
 * As a user I want to see tasks in a selected folder
 * As a user I want to see tasks from multiple selected folders
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 * As a user I want share my folders with other users
 * As a user I want to see to whom a shared folder belongs.
-=== Tags/Contexts ===
-While contexts are tags too, we also need plain tag support. This is to have a uniform tagging mechanism accross email and calendaring objects.
-I'm going to refere to a tag of type "context" with context and to a tag of type "PLAIN" with tag. For tags I think filtering only is sufficient.
-Note that plain tags have no hierarchy.
-* As a user I want to filter tasks and notes by tag/context.
-* As a user I want to assign tags/contexts to todos/notes.
-* As a user I want to create new tags/contexts.
-=== Sorting ===
-* As a user I want to sort by title, end-date, due-date, priority, degree of completion
 = Mockups =