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That todo list
OK, I’ve been playing around with trying to get something to replace Microsoft Outlook for handling my “lists” of things to do, and calendaring would be nice.
I’m leaning very quickly at just getting back to using Outlook for the next six months.
My favourite potential replacement is Chandler from the http://www.chandlerproject.org. Unfortunately, it will randomly choose not to let me enter a new task/event. The data seems to never get lost between app restarts, reinstalls, but its very annoying not to be able add new “issues” which basically means I can’t trust the thing as a daily planner et. al. replacement.
It is rather slow to start up, but that’s one thing that you learn to accept when trying out replacement software (i.e. not critical at this point of assessment.)
Chandler has this nice GTD (Get Things Done) gui enhancement, which is neat although I wish the auto-sorting feature could be tweaked a little more (for example, if an event isn’t going to happen for a week, I don’t need it on my screen displacing other events that are going to happen sooner.
Chandler has a nice feature for synching your everything through their hub, or you can have your own server hub. This is way cool, and supports synching more than just your calendar (which is why I prefer this type of solution to just having Google Calendar)
The big Open Source Momma Personal Information Manager (PIM) replacement Novell’s Evolution has a near current Windows port, but it is dang slow. My hour on the train is over and the thing is still starting up.
I’ve started it up a couple of times, and I’m sure if I had 64 bit Windows with everything cached on a 12GB Ram machine, it might be faster (or normal startup speed for everyone else.) i might try colinux or andlinux and that might be a better solution.
But I can synch my Outlook with my phone. My phone has been out of date for the past 2 months as I have vainly attempted to get rid of Outlook.
Wax On!!
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