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== Desired Features == | == Desired Features == | ||
Revision as of 08:48, 31 October 2008
This page started as a consequence of this ITt thread: [http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24654 Did you say PIM? Come here please].
- Vote on current enhancement requests or open new ones at http://bugs.maemo.org
- Summarize more complex proposals here or in new wiki pages.
- Link to good and bad ideas, projects, examples out there.
This exercise is as useful to Nokia as to the own community and 3rd party developers in seeing what are the great ideas and points of most interest. And the names able to move them forward. Think visionary. Think Harmattan. Squeeze your brains showing that you are getting it so right.
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Desired Features
Calendar
- Calendar function with iCal support - import/export functions
- Interaction (or import from) with Web enabled calendars - namely Google, Zoho Planner, 30 Boxes
- Integrate Calendar with Addressbook component - for easy inter communication between apps
- Automatically import anniversairies and birthdays from addressbook oponent and calculate (current age e.g.) - asys3
- Interact Calendar with Web Browser - so as to enable opening a web link from a Calendar event directly
- Allow generic and open format of Calendar data - so that it can be used by 3rd party apps as well (i.e. sqlite)
- Synching
- Interaction with email program - allow to open a mail with a specific date attached - asys3
- Better yet, copy the mail body into the notes field of the event. - boxofsnoo
- Monthly grid view
- Integrate to-do items into schedule - items with no date should show up on 'today' - boxofsnoo
- wouldn't that get very messy quickly? have options for the display [ ] events [ ] tasks [ ] mails ... ? --lcuk 22:40, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
- most PIM apps on, say, Palm do this already. The options are typically to hide undated, or only show tasks that are pending. Mails are completely unnecessary, if it's a task that's mailed, it will typically already be converted into one or the other. - boxofsnoo
- wouldn't that get very messy quickly? have options for the display [ ] events [ ] tasks [ ] mails ... ? --lcuk 22:40, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Address Book
- import/export functions
- Integration with the Calendar component - allow for cross application interaction
- Import/export from web Contact apps - namely Google Contact, Yahoo Address Book etc.
- Allow user added fields (e.g. 4 mobile phone numbers if needed, 2 URLs for office/private website) - asys3
- Either allow multiple format masks for fields like phone numbers or do not enforce a format on them.
- Integrate with Maemo email client - so as to allow selection/adding to and from the addressbook and email client together
- Allow active web links from any contact information to interact with Web browser.
- Allow generic and open format of Calendar data - so that it can be used by 3rd party apps as well
- should be VCARD - look for best suitable VCARD definition - asys3
- Synching
ToDo List
- Items should have start date, completion date, priority, tags as well as description and completed.
- Should optionally be finger-friendly (especially relevant for to-do lists)
- Subtasks/Projects
- Integration with sites like ToodleDo or RememberTheMilk.
- Recurring tasks
- Categorized/tagged filtered view
General/shared features
SIMPLE views for the UI dialogs. most of the time as a user I do not require all these things, yes we need them there, but an option to dumb down or remove the extra stuff would be really important to me.
- for instance, most todo items for me simply need a description, once they are on the list I know they need doing
--lcuk 22:25, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
The GTD philosophy is to collect simply and easily, and process later. A quick entry option would be wise - or a tabbed interface like mCalendar or Pimlico Dates.- boxofsnoo
Allow items to be tagged with more than one tag and allow filtering on multiple tags.
- So, a contact may work for Company X, be alumnus of school Y and be a part of SIG A. I would like to be able to assign tags "X", "Y", and "SIG A" and later filter on any of these tags to find all my contacts who work for "X" and were once in "Y" etc.
-- cyta
Some things aren't essential but really help. For example, a context-sensitive zoom... for example, in Pocket Informant, you tap on a day in the month grid and that day grows to take most of the grid space, and everything else squashes down to minimum size.
Palm's newer address books did this too, as you scrolled through the names with the hardware keys, the currently selected one was double the height, and had much bigger fonts.
I can see how this could extend also to the todo list, too --boxofsnoo 01:38, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
General needs
In trying to move outside the PIM-trap, please list here the things you want to do with your tablet related to managing your daily life. Who knows, maybe there are better ways of doing "PIM" besides of the regular Calendar+Todo+Addresses approach.
- Knowing where I need to be today
- Knowing where I need to be next
- Knowing where I was last friday at four
- Knowing when I have free time next week / month
- Knowing if I'm free tomorrow at six
- Knowing the context of my events (work, stydying, hobbies, friends)
- Seeing all the times I've been to place X or met person Y
- Having the device notify me if it notices that I'm running late or forgetting something (GPS, location awareness?)
Status of current PIM apps
Could we list what's good and what's missing in the various current PIMs? Might give us an idea of where to start improving things (especially for those who've not used all of them)
I've started with a few apps I could find, there are doubtless others, please add them (and urls, and change the urls there if there's something better) --Lardman 30 Oct 2008 21:56 UTC
Pimlico Dates
http://www.pimlico-project.org/dates.html
Good
Bad
Pimlico Tasks
http://www.pimlico-project.org/tasks.html
Good
Bad
Pimlico Contact
http://www.pimlico-project.org/contacts.html
Good
Bad
GPE Calendar
http://gpe.handhelds.org/projects/GPE-calendar.shtml
Good
Has :
- Day view
- Week view
- Month view
- List view
Can publish/retrieve to/from remote iCal servers (eg eGroupware)
Has multiple calendars (eg remote, work, social)
Has reminder service
Can publish/export as iCal
Bad
- Missing Native sync support
- No Two-week (or 3-day) grid view
- No Year view
- Missing Per task formatting (icons would be nice) --boxofsnoo 21:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
- No options for start/stop of the day, or time increments (15 min, 30 min, 1 hour)
- No options for non-shaded/combined weekends
- Slows down to a crawl when there are a lot of events in the database.
GPE To-do list
Good
- Categories
- Ability to purge completed tasks
Bad
- Buttons are too tiny, even for stylus use
- No subtasks/projects or tags
- No start date
- No integration with calendar (apart from applet)
- No alarms on due date
GPE Contacts
Good
- Quick lookup 3-letter tabs on left
- Search
- Categories
Bad
- Does not integrate with Mail
- First, Last name display is not configurable, sort looks off
- First, Last name parsing is often wrong. Needs at least 2 separate fields
mCalendar
http://www.khertan.net/mcalendar.php
Good
- finger friendly
- in active development
- desktop integration
- maemo targeted
Bad
- Grid views missing
- Can't deselect an online calendar from sync - all or nothing
- Can't enter tasks into subcalendars
- Tied only to Google calendar
- No iCal import
slapd
Small but fully featured addressbook engine
kdepimpi
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/kdepimpi/
- For more information please see: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15566