Thread: PIM Contest
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2008-11-26 , 23:38
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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
I don't own a tablet. I am poor.
SNIP!

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
The idea is to let our collective dollars act as incentive to fork, add to, create a project that meets our expectations, and gets us the PIM of our [realistic] dreams.

The first step would be collectively determining the spec for such a project and in doing so, the criteria for winning the contest.

What would you need to see in a PIM? Why?
Here are some of the things I want in a PIM:
  • cross platform (Linux desktop, Linux tablet, Windows desktop, possibly even web accessible) with the ability to intelligently synchronize between platforms
  • Calendar with alarms, strong support for scheduling (ie., recurring dates, 3rd-wednesday-in-July, scheduling conflict detection), support for importing icalendar data.
  • To-do list (linked to the calendar, but items don't require dates/times), with item priorities
  • Contact list (names/addresses/email), ideally integrated with mobile phones (ie., synchronize entries with your phone, initiate dialling from the PIM program, maintain a log of call dates in your PIM autmatically from the log in the phone, etc.). Support for vcard data.
  • strong support for categorization in each data source (ie., is an entry in the category "Friends" or "Business", etc.), with filtering of each display by category

Thankfully, the kdepimpi PIM meets all those requirements already, but the interface under the Maemo/Hildon environment is poor. I've done a little work "porting" kdepimpi to the Nokia environment, but the kdepimpi Garage project really needs some help from a more experienced programmer.
 

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