"clean up" name and icon are wack
I think the "clean up" button is a little wack. Here is why: A handheld broom makes me think of a dustpan. A dustpan makes me thing of a garbage bin. I hit "cleanup" and expect that completed tasks might be deleted forever.
I don't expect that the inbox will be "proccessed" into project & context folders. That action would be better described by a word like "filter" (already used) "folder the inbox" (awkward use of "folder as verb) or "process inbox" (lame). Ok, okay, I don't have the answer, but I'm sure there is something better than "clean up" Or at least an Icon of a piece of paper going into a folder or something, instead of a visual connoting that things are on their way to the wastebasket. |
"Process Inbox" would make the most sense to me.
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I second the change to "Process Inbox" or maybe even just "Process" instead of "clean up"
I too was confused by the "clean up" button for quite a while. |
I feel like "processing" is what [B]I[/B] do to the tasks in the inbox.
What about "refresh"? |
I agree, "Process" does bite a bit into the human part of the task, but technically it [i]is[/i] part of processing, just the tail end part that a machine can do. When you process a paper GTD system, you have to write down all of these things from your Inbox as a part of processing. That is all the button is doing. Writing them down for you in the places you told it to place them.
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what about "tidy up" instead of "clean up"
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[QUOTE=markbrown00]what about "tidy up" instead of "clean up"[/QUOTE]
best suggestion so far |
[i]*Quizzical look*[/i]
It is essentially the same thing. What confusion does that solve? Where I am from anyway, these two phrases mean the same thing. |
When I "tidy up" my home. I'm taking all the books and magazines on the kitchen table and putting them back on a shelf where they belong. When I "clean up" the corn flakes I spilled on the floor, I'm putting them into the trash.
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Interesting, I've always heard them used interchangeably, with the context being the important part. Must be a (sub-)cultural thing.
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