Re: [Tools-discuss] Early preview of upcoming changes to the agenda pages

[Jay Daley <[e-mail]>]

> On 16 Jun 2022, at 16:28, Tero Kivinen <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Jay Daley writes:
>> [One thing to consider for later, is what are the use cases for
>> filtering/picking?  If the overwhelming use case for this is to
>> create a personalised calendar then we could perhaps rephrase some
>> of the action in terms of that - Choose my schedule, Download my
>> schedule, etc.  No need to do that now though]. 
> 
> I think the tools.ietf.org agenda tool coloring was much better way of
> making personalized agenda. I always went through the agenda, picking
> the important things with one color, another color for those session
> which might be interesting and so on. Then when I checked the agenda,
> if there was anything with important color, then I went there, if not
> I picked one of the interesting ones. If there was no color, then I
> went to read my emails :-)
> 
> I also used one color to indicate which meetings I actually ended up,
> that made it bit easier to write reports later, when you can see where
> you ended up and try to remember whether there was anything useful
> there or not.

That’s a great use case - thank you.  I think a modern reimplementation would use selectable statuses each of which could have a colour or an icon assigned, but much the same functionality.  

Jay

> 
> I have never really used the filter areas etc buttons of the current
> agenda...
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