Description Willian Mitsuda 2007-07-16 01:20:56 EDT

I'm not sure if this was discussed before, but anyway:

Mylyn workflow forces you to:

1 - Create a task.
2 - Work on it.

But many times I caught myself doing some work, so only then I figure out that it could be interesting turning it into a task.

For example:

- Navigate through news on live.eclipse.org and found some demo/tutorial.
- I think: "cool, I think I'll try on my machine".
- Start working, and after some time I think: "It is time to <do-another-thing>. I'll continue later".
- Then: "Ops! It would be good if I had created a task for this before".

My idea is:

- If there is no active task, collect interaction into some kind of "anonymous context".
- When you create a new task, offer the option to initially populate it with this "anonymous context".

So the workflow could be:

[ 1 - Do some work. ]
2 - Create a task [ populating the context with previous work ].
3 - Work on it.