Latest revision as of 11:55, 2 April 2016

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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+= Presentation of the project =
-= Context =
+Zanshin is trying to provide a software support for the "Getting things done" approach of David Allen. It integrates very well
-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.
+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.
-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 "context" would be zanshin related, its name, that will be displayed to the user, will depend on what the user as set.
+Reference : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
-= Requirements =
+= Zanshin's Context =
-Requirements for zanshin in the User-Story format.
+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.
-== Tasks ==
+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.
-As a user I want to:
-* create a task so that I can find it later.
-* set a subject of the task so I can quickly identify it.
-* set a content of the task so I can add additional information.
-* set a due date so I know when the task has to be finished.
-* set a duration estimate to get an idea of the size of the task
-* set a progress indicator so others can see how I'm progressing
-* organize tasks into Projects so I can create a structure of dependencies
-* organize tasks into Contexts so I can pick tasks that suit the context I'm in.
-* delegate tasks to another user so I can let him know that he should take over (via iTip).
-* immediately see which are the most important and urgent tasks so I can treat them accordingly.
-* delete a task so it is removed from the system completely.
-* mark a task as completed so it is hidden from the tasklist.
-* fulltext-filter the tasklist so I can find tasks quickly.
-* search for projects or other users that I know by name.
-* browse for projects that I don't know by name.
-As a project manager I want to:
+=Zanhin User Stories =
-* assign tasks to another user so the user knows that he is responsible for the task (via iTip).
-* track assigned tasks so I can check the status when it's supposed to be complete.
-== Notes ==
+=== Inbox and base editing ===
-As a user I want to:
+All done
-* create a note so I can find it later.
+=== Projects and task hierarchy basics ===
-* set a subject of the note so I can quickly identify it.
+All Done
-* set a content of the note so I can add additional information.
+=== Complete base workflow ===
-* organize notes into Topics so I can build a knowledge base.
+All Done
-* add notes to Projects so I can quickly locate project related notes as part of the project.
+=== 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.
-== Bonus stuff ==
+=== Workday view basics ===
-As a user I want to:
+All Done
-* pick a set of tasks for a daily todolist so I can plan the day once and then not be bothered by the rest of the tasks.
+=== 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
+=== Tags ===
+Note: Context are only in Zanshin and Tag are only in Renku
+* As a user I want to filter notes by tags
+=== 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:ZanshinMockupBjörn.png]]
+[[File:20120212_ZenshinMockup.ep.zip]]
+== Mockups by Christian Mollekopf ==
+[[File:ZanshinMockupProjectViewCMollekopf.png ]]
+[[File:Cmollekopf_zanshinmockup_30_5_2014.ep.zip]]