Chandler Project--Personal Information Dashboard
There's been a lot of talk recently about the new Eudora adoption into the Mozilla project . But there is another PIM and email project that is interesting, it's the Chandler Project.
The Chandler Project is an open source, standards-based personal information manager (PIM) built around small group collaboration and a core set of information management workflows modelled on Inbox usage patterns and David Allen's GTD methodology. Chandler is sponsored by the Mitch Kapor lead Open Source Applications Foundation.
I played around with it this weekend, and it's interesting. If if can improve my productivity with email in any way shape or form I would be interested. Not familiar with David Allen's methodologies past the Business 2.0 article but there's got to be a better way to deal with email, calendar, tasks, and all that other information that shapes my life at work and at home.
Chandler's probably worth watching.
For more of Mark Hinkle, visit his EncoreOpus blog.
Heh... I remember Mitch Kapor starting this project to a lot of initial fanfare- and then it dropped below the radar. Very nice- it looks very promising, indeed. I'll have to snag a copy of the server and client and see if it's the Exchange Killer that Mr. Kapor set out to make.