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Aucbvax.2145 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Tue Jul 7 08:03:14 1981 Spatial design for a workstation >From DPR@MIT-XX Tue Jul 7 08:01:23 1981 Congratulations. It seems that you have just discovered the paradigm of the Xerox STAR and Negroponte's Spatial Data Management systems. More likely you knew about them already. With a little improvement in Xerox's software, this could be the substance of an ad for STAR!

THe problem, though, is the same as the one on my desk--it get cluttered fast with incomplete tasks. If certain tasks have long time horizons, and certain ones have short time horizons, the result is a mess. If the priority is not correlated with time horizon (since in my case there is always more to do than can be done, requiring that some things NEVER get completed), then the pile gets deeper and deeper. So now I need three dimensions, and a way to hand tasks off to others in a partially completed state if it looks like I won't be able to finsih them.

How does my secretary extract stuff from my "automated desk" and finish it when I'm out--or conversely, how do I or a temp deal with her "automated desk" when she's sick?

David

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