Chadler 0.1 is now available. Here's the release info. You can download it here (windows, linux, os x).
I'm excited about this, but don't have the time right now to play with it. I'll report back as soon as I do.
Here's Cory Doctorow's blurb which captures exactly why I have so much hope for this project.Mitch Kapor and the Open Source Applications Foundation have released the first public alpha of Chandler, the serverless, P2P mailer/calendar/PIM that looks more and more like an application framework for displacing the OS as the primary tool of info-management -- I *already* use my mailer as a database layered on top of my OS, since I email almost everything I do to someone, somewhere. I've stopped sweating careful file-heirarchies for my archived docs on my HDD and started just using my mailer's search functions to find the documents I need to retreive. Looks to me like Chandler is being *designed* for that kind of use. File system hierarchies are not something the average user should have to concern themselves with. This complexity is holding back adoption.
Here's a screen shot of the main calendar screen:
This is a very early, very rough release. It won't look like this when it's done. And the underlying database is apparently still undergoing massive changes. Still, I can get a feel for what it will be able to do.
Sure would be nice to have all those communciations features (email, IM, RSS) plus calendar, address book, time clock, all inside of one app. I mean assuming they can pull this off. The key advantage (where often separate programs are better for each individual task) is that all of the Chandler sub programs sit on top of the same database. And it's all completely open (source) so all that data is accessible not only to the different Chandler sub apps, but also to any other program that wants to hook itself in.
This is so much better than having gigs of highly important personal data locked away in some proprietary microsoft exchange format.
And, it's occuring to me while looking at it, could Chandler be the front end for some type of mobile communication device? Isn't it really all you'd need?
More as I go...
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I'm excited about this, but don't have the time right now to play with it. I'll report back as soon as I do.
Here's Cory Doctorow's blurb which captures exactly why I have so much hope for this project.File system hierarchies are not something the average user should have to concern themselves with. This complexity is holding back adoption.
- jim 4-22-2003 6:25 pm
Here's a screen shot of the main calendar screen:
This is a very early, very rough release. It won't look like this when it's done. And the underlying database is apparently still undergoing massive changes. Still, I can get a feel for what it will be able to do.
Sure would be nice to have all those communciations features (email, IM, RSS) plus calendar, address book, time clock, all inside of one app. I mean assuming they can pull this off. The key advantage (where often separate programs are better for each individual task) is that all of the Chandler sub programs sit on top of the same database. And it's all completely open (source) so all that data is accessible not only to the different Chandler sub apps, but also to any other program that wants to hook itself in.
This is so much better than having gigs of highly important personal data locked away in some proprietary microsoft exchange format.
And, it's occuring to me while looking at it, could Chandler be the front end for some type of mobile communication device? Isn't it really all you'd need?
More as I go...
- jim 4-23-2003 7:44 pm