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Playing devil’s advocate: calendar events happen at a place and time, and they have a finite, nonzero duration. Tasks are things that one should do. A reminde
by amluto 4y ago
Playing devil’s advocate: calendar events happen at a place and time, and they have a finite, nonzero duration.
Tasks are things that one should do.
A reminder reminds the user of something at a specific time or perhaps at a heuristically chosen convenient time in a range.
So a satellite flying directly overhead or someone’s birthday or simply wanting to be reminded of a fact on a day is not a task. There’s nothing to do, and checking it off makes no sense. (Although wishing someone happy birthday could be a task.). Simply showing the user the reminder accomplishes the goal. On the other hand, most calendar programs struggle with events with no duration, and overlaying reminders onto a schedule makes the schedule harder to read.
- suddenexample 4y agoThis is over indexing on semantics. The feature name is now Tasks, but the functionality is exactly the same and is now better for Tasks users.
- SoftTalker 4y agoRight, but I created a "Reminder" last year and when I go looking for it now, I'll be looking for something called a "Reminder" not a "Task" I get that sometimes decisions have to be made about whether to keep or abandon design and UI and nomenclature decisions that are now regretted for whatever reason, but bear in mind that you are creating immense frustration for current users when you do so. As the designer or manager or developer of an application, you are immersed in it and every change makes perfect sense to you. But your users may use it infrequently, or be invested in the way it works now, and all your changes are just seen as pointless, frustrating churn.
- vladf 4y agoHave you seen this? https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
- SoftTalker 4y agoIt's funny because it's (almost) true.
- anon84873628 4y agoIs a reminder usually reminding you to complete a task?
- crazygringo 4y agoWhat you're calling reminders are just calendar events. A birthday is a repeating calendar event. You're free to create a calendar event with 0:00 duration in Google Calendar, it works fine. You can also create all-day events that show up at the top and don't make the schedule harder to read.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoAnd also, presumably, you want to be reminded of a thing for a reason. What's the reason you want to be reminded? That reason is the task.
- extua 4y agoThis describes more or less how I use calendar reminders. Typically, if I see a trailer for a film that looks good, I make a reminder several months ahead to check it out. I don't think of these as 'tasks to be completed', but more like 'notes to my future self'.