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says:It's a great idea -- and it's what drew me to RTM. I want to be able to see my errands geographically so I can coordinate them together. But the execution is lacking (no offense, this is constructive criticism).
Some things I'd like to be able to do:
1. Pick multiple locations for a task.
2. Pick a company (like Home Depot) or type of business (like hardware store) -- which Google map could search for -- so I can check the map when I'm going to an area to see if I can knock out an errand.
3. Be able to get directions on the Locations map.
4. Be able to send the Locations map to Google My Maps.
5. Integrate locations entered into Google Calendar (or other calendars) into the Locations map so we can coordinate errands with our schedule better.
6. Be able to just add an address to the task's location line (which the map will find and tag automatically) without having to go through the current laborious process of creating a location first.
Anyway, there are some thoughts. I think we could use a Locations 2.0 overhaul, so here are some ideas to make it more useful. Please feel free to provide your own, or let us know how you use the feature to get around some of these shortcomings.
Posted at 3:46pm on January 25, 2008
Yep, all of those would be very useful.
I'd add also another one, which I already mentioned in this post
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/3807/
This one would be very, very easy to implement! Just add another string field for the location: in addition to the "google location" (say, the street address), I'd like to have a place where to put the room number or whatever comment I want (floor, apt, etc)
A possible workaround is to make a DIFFERENT location for every single room/apt. But this workaround is *very* ugly since the map view will be a mess, and the user will lost the ability to select a "single" location (eg. building), and view everything he/she has to do there (in possible different rooms).
Another workaround is to put the room number in a tag, but in my opinion that's ugly too, since you will have many many tags, and lot of clutter.
Thanks,
;Dav
Posted at 9:29pm on February 14, 2008
says:I think, if Bob could pull them off, that mahinirb's ideas are a great collection.
Posted at 5:24am on February 22, 2008
Yeah, just being allowed to write text straight into the box without RTM parsing it would be very useful for me - would it not be possible to make it parse it if it can, or just leave it if it can't (rather than rejecting it)?
Posted at 2:49pm on March 3, 2008
I noticed that when I click on a location and get the bubble with all the tasks for that location, task priorities but not due dates show up. Due dates would help. Also, within the bubble, if I click on one of the tasks, I end up in my general tasks list. It would be better if I went to the specific task I clicked on. Also, within the bu
I think the Locations feature is probably the weakest part of RtM right now. However, I'm confident that it will be updated someday, and then it will be great. I've noticed that RtM features sometimes take a while to change, but the changes are always well thought-out and implemented, so I'm happy to wait.
Posted at 7:35pm on April 9, 2008
Number 6 is my big concern and would make this tool so much more useful for me and less laborious.
Posted at 2:48am on August 4, 2008
