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johnrover 2007-06-15 06:30 PM

"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.

AmberV 2007-06-15 06:47 PM

"Process Inbox" would make the most sense to me.

s0niqu3 2007-06-15 06:57 PM

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.

Craig 2007-06-15 07:26 PM

I feel like "processing" is what [B]I[/B] do to the tasks in the inbox.

What about "refresh"?

AmberV 2007-06-15 07:36 PM

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.

markbrown00 2007-06-15 10:14 PM

what about "tidy up" instead of "clean up"

johnrover 2007-06-16 04:27 AM

[QUOTE=markbrown00]what about "tidy up" instead of "clean up"[/QUOTE]

best suggestion so far

AmberV 2007-06-16 08:39 AM

[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.

johnrover 2007-06-16 09:35 AM

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.

AmberV 2007-06-16 12:13 PM

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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