What if we could get this Collaboration and Notification feature via the concept of Sharing like we do in iTunes with the new HomeShare feature.
Here's the setup and how I envision it:
. I open OmniFocus
. Open Preferences
. Activate Sharing
. Select the Project Folders I want to Share
. Hit OK
. I look @ my Shared Projects tab and see the 3 people are sharing
- Bob
. Design Library
. Web Site Redesign
- Jennifer
. Today Stuff
- Richard
. Inbox
. As the project lead, I decide to give Bob a new Task
. I assign a task in my InBox, "Look @ using Red instead of blue in the header graphic"
. I drag this task to Bob's Design Library Project folder
. The task is immediately tagged with the name BOB in my inbox
. On Bob's side, he gets a Growl notification that I have sent him a new task to his Design Library folder
. He is asked to Accept or Reject the task
. He accepts it
. The Task is assigned a tag of my name so Bob can quickly access it in his sorts
. Bob finished the Task and checks it off as complete
. I receive a Growl notification that the Task has been completed, and it is check off in my InBox
So, I was thinking, could this be achieved thru some sort of Bonjour mechanism?
If I decide to share my Projects and people want Read Write access to them, they would request a Key from me (kind of what you currently do when connecting the iPhone as a remote to AppleTV or iTunes). This key allows users to read/write to shared databases.
I am just thinking about different solutions here.
I just looked @ The Hit List, and while it doesn't offer this Sharing notion, it does offer the ability to have nested Projects...I wonder if they would be interested in extending the potential of their app to include Sharing, so work environments could use it in a very collaborative nature.
Thanks as always for taking the time to review these thoughts of mine. :)
-policarpo
i put together a quick comps of what this might look like (i know it's Things, but it's all I had on this laptop @ home)
