Note: This post contains screenshots of Safari alerts. So please don’t get alarmed unnecessarily.

The problem: In Highrise, explaining “uncategorization” (what happens when you delete a task category) is difficult…

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“Uncategorized” feels unintuitive and sounds ominous. Let’s try this: “There are 2 tasks in this category. Their categories will be changed to ‘None’ if you delete this category.”

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Now we’re saying “category” 4 times though. Let’s kill “if you delete this category.”

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That’s nice and tight.

Here’s the Campfire discussion where it was all hashed out:

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