Floating sidebar scrolls too slow
ryangwu82 says:
I have a few lists with over 20 items. These long lists require me to scroll the webpage up and down to see items at different points in the list. When I scroll up or down, the sidebar (List/Share/Publish tabs) all scroll too. That's really useful and I'm very impressed with your attention to detail there.
However, it takes about 3 seconds for the sidebar to finish moving after I've stopped scrolling. The animation is pretty but it ends up to be very distracting now that I've been using RTM for a while.
Does this bother anyone else?
I'm not sure what the best solution is here. You could eliminate the animation, but that may offend your sense of aesthetics -- RTM's design is not bare-bones and I don't think you should move in that direction. You could speed up the animation, but that might look kinda dumb (like watching a movie at double-speed). Making this choice user-selectable would be great for me, but would be unnecessary for many other users, and I know most usability experts strongly recommend avoiding unnecessary options. Fortunately I can tell you are really smart and can come up with a better solution than I can :-)
I know this sounds like I'm being picky, but it's actually a real irritation. Other than this, I love the service -- thanks for all your hard work!
Ryan
However, it takes about 3 seconds for the sidebar to finish moving after I've stopped scrolling. The animation is pretty but it ends up to be very distracting now that I've been using RTM for a while.
Does this bother anyone else?
I'm not sure what the best solution is here. You could eliminate the animation, but that may offend your sense of aesthetics -- RTM's design is not bare-bones and I don't think you should move in that direction. You could speed up the animation, but that might look kinda dumb (like watching a movie at double-speed). Making this choice user-selectable would be great for me, but would be unnecessary for many other users, and I know most usability experts strongly recommend avoiding unnecessary options. Fortunately I can tell you are really smart and can come up with a better solution than I can :-)
I know this sounds like I'm being picky, but it's actually a real irritation. Other than this, I love the service -- thanks for all your hard work!
Ryan
emily (Remember The Milk) says:
Ryan, can I ask which browser and operating system are you using?
Thanks!
Thanks!
ryangwu82 says:
Emily, I'm using Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP Professional.
Hope this helps,
Ryan
Hope this helps,
Ryan
ryangwu82 says:
My computer is just a couple of months old, by the way. It's a 2.8GHz Pentium D with a gigabyte of RAM, so I don't think that my computer is too slow for your application. I think this is more of a personal preference about the animation when Remember the Milk is used the way I use it.
jshuma says:
I also find the thing kind of obnoxious, in that it's sometimes hard for me to click a moving target. Although it's nice to have it there within the window at all times, so that I never have to scroll to find it, I think it would be much better if it updated much more quickly, or if there were a way to make it instantly snap into place without any animation.
shawn.wang says:
I love RTM, but sometimes the speed of adding a new task is really slow that I have to cancel it and add again. It happens when updating a task too.
The animation sidebar is cool but after you use it for a long time you will find it is not very convenient. I would love to have a static side bar and a tasks scroll box instead. So I can scroll down to find all my tasks quickly but have an easy-to-locate control panel to master them. Just like what you can see on Hotmail’s webmail page.
The animation sidebar is cool but after you use it for a long time you will find it is not very convenient. I would love to have a static side bar and a tasks scroll box instead. So I can scroll down to find all my tasks quickly but have an easy-to-locate control panel to master them. Just like what you can see on Hotmail’s webmail page.
bluehz says:
Was this topic ever resolved... I dislike the scrolling sidebar myself and wish there was a method of disabling it.
ojcit says:
I second the idea of keeping the navigation/tags/etc bar static and letting the tasks move up & down. I dislike scrolling in general, and would even prefer having the tasks paginate to the choppy scroll-down of the sidebar.
(closed account) says:
+1 I am using RTM on my own computer. All is OK. Buw, my wife's computer is slow for animated RTM sidebar (P-III/256/Linux). So, for my wife, use of RTM is really impossibile.
(closed account) says:
Corrected typo: +1 I am using RTM on my own computer. All is OK. But, my wife's computer is slow for animated RTM sidebar (P-III/256/Linux). So, for my wife, use of RTM is really impossibile.
hugohudson says:
I am strongly considering using RTM as my primary TODO manager, but I am also put off by the animation: I'm using RTM in my mobile phone's web browser and it's too slow once I have 20+ items. Can we have a setting to turn off animating please?
alexgieg says:
I agree with this too. An option to fix the box in its "final place" (that position in the screen relative to the browser's window at where it always stops after a few seconds when you stop scrolling) instead of having it slowly approaching it would be and much, MUCH more productive!
alexgieg says:
By the way: I've found a Greasemonkey script that solves this annoyance:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7825
Of course you must be using Firefox with the Greasemonkey addon for this to work. Or maybe Opera, which also offers some built-in Greasemonkey functionality (it isn't perfect, so this might or might not work there, YMMV). Anyway, it works for me, so I'm happy. :-)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7825
Of course you must be using Firefox with the Greasemonkey addon for this to work. Or maybe Opera, which also offers some built-in Greasemonkey functionality (it isn't perfect, so this might or might not work there, YMMV). Anyway, it works for me, so I'm happy. :-)
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