Mimi, I've been watching the development of Chandler sporadically from the beginning, and I'm losing interest in the product. The reason: I had hoped that Chandler was going to be the Uber-Agenda of information storage, organization and retrieval.
What I think I've been seeing developing here is a software product which is phone-contact-task info centric rather than all-sorts-of-information-centric. Your question "When do you want to see only Notes?" really drove this home to me recently. My answer to your question: All the time! I'm a professional writer and college professor who packrats all sorts of information. I live by my notes and my ability to find specific information quickly. I also live by my capability to combine such information in unique and different ways. Appointments and such are more incidental to me than the actual information contained within an information base. I had hoped that Chandler could take all my scattered e-mail, graphics, notes, and standard database information and combine them in one "bin" so I could quickly organize and recover such information. I had also hoped that the Agenda ability for linking things together in pre-defined or new ways would also be there. Right now, I rely on two products for my information storage, organization, and retrieval needs: TreePad X Enterprise and Ultra Recall Pro. Each has its weaknesses. Neither has old Agenda's "smart" info processing capabilities. A Chandler without a really powerful Notes View is worthless to me. I need to store scanned articles, graphics, text, e-mail, etc. and be able to view them as Notes, quickly, easily, and intelligently. Unless Chandler can provide me with capabilities which exceed those of the products I'm already using, I won't be adopting it. --- Rich Personal Web site: The Rth Dimension (http://www.theRthDimension.org) Cafépress site: The Pithy Python (http://www.pithypython.com) "Mobile Commentary for a Mobile Society" _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
