I've used Task Coach as well. It has a slightly smaller feature set than Bonsai, which I have used in Palm for about ten years, so it's hard for me to say that its feature set cannot be brought to a handheld. To me, a powerful feature set and simple do not go together; however, simple interfaces can be made for powerful apps. It's a matter of design effort. I tire of using app.s that are several generations simpler than what I am accustomed to using.

When I purchased my N810, Nokia hailed it as an "Internet Tablet," something not a smart phone. My N900 very much looks and acts like a smart phone, and to be honest, many of the apps. look like offerings I could get on other smart phones. Where's the full advantage of a powerful OS when the apps. being offered are similar to those on the iPhone?

Jurop, perhaps we are talking about a similar feature set. For me, the ability to create hierarchical drag-and-drop lists is critical. Similarly, I cannot envision a powerful task manager without the ability to set dates, reminders, notes (or descriptions), categories, sorting and progress. If we include effort, it seems that we'd also be including progress, and budget. The ability to set prerequisites moves Task Coach toward being a simple project manager. The default screen doesn't need to show more than 3 columns; however, the ability to select those columns would be incredibly useful.

If some of us simply want a task manager that is somewhat more powerful than what is available, why not join one of the many task manager projects and push it in that direction? And as for porting Task Coach to QT, I don't really see the point, given that Task Coach is already available for many platforms. wxPython has been already been run on Maemo in a test environment. To me, that would be the logical way to go.