Outlook Killer
I've been complaining about Outlook's shortcomings for a while now, but it's the only usable PIM (as far as I'm concerned) for the Windows platform. Jake switched to Entourage many moons ago, but I'm far from ready to migrate my entire digital lifestyle to OS X. Enter Chandler, a promising personal information manager from the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF). I downloaded the Win32 binary, ran the batch file, and in seconds, was staring at a very rudimentary client. Even at 0.1, it's impressive. Whoever's listening to me: you're on the right track. Please, don't stop until you're finished – and ask for feedback every step of the way. UPDATE: Check out Spaces, another would-be Outlook clone in need of our support.
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16 Comments
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 10:37am
I support ANYTHING non-M$ before I will touch an M$ product.
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 10:55am
I am in between M$ and Linux. I want to go 100% Linux but always end up back at Windows.
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 10:57am
If I had a life Chandler could be a valuable tool for me. Rachel's more important to me at this point in time. *drool*
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 11:00am
Im lost Chris, what doesnt Outlook do that you need it to? I use it for reading spam, err…email. It seems to do fine with that. (Along with a additional program, iHateSpam which works very well.)
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 11:13am
I use Ximian Evolution in Linux and found it to be pretty good. But I(Jonathan Ellison) said before I end up back in windows. Sometimes I have to other projects in windows that I cant do in Linux right now.
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 11:26am
Hmm…I'll try it out!
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 12:11pm
I tried it out but on windows its just a bit too unstable. Its nice on linux but really it can't compete with evolution at this stage in its development. Though it does have a great deal of promise.
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 12:21pm
Chris-
It's really too bad you are no longer on TechTV. If you were you could put in a plug for Chandler and get a few more developers on the job. I really want to see this thing get to at least 0.5 (and have a useable database) before I move over from Outlook.
Did you notice the news aggregator? Outlook doesn't have one of those, I thought that was nice. (Of course Outlook will have one soon enough, I would assume.)
I thought the coolest part of Chandler was the batch file. When was the last time you used a batch file to run a windows program? Maybe you saw it in Win95 a bit, while you still had MS-DOS programs left over from the Win3.1 days. But really there hasn't been a new batch file made in 8 years, at least not for a serious software project.
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 2:43pm
Did you ever try the Palm Desktop Chris? When I didn't have Outlook, I found Palm Desktop very usable. Even though it was meant for use with a Palm PDA, it is free to download for anybody.
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 3:05pm
Ass charms? Set of 6?…hummmm no comment……LoL
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 3:08pm
iHateSpam which Dan refers to above is free after rebate right now at Amazon.com
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2003
at 4:58pm
PIM? Outlook Killer? And all this time I've been out of the loop because I use Netscape's Messenger. God help me!
Anonymous
April 24th, 2003
at 5:33am
Messr. Pirillo: if you weesh to make comment about Chandler, goto http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/WikiHome
Hokay?
Anonymous
April 24th, 2003
at 6:01am
Spaces is nice; looking forward to reading RSS (you have me addicted to it, Chris.) feeds
Anonymous
April 24th, 2003
at 6:40am
Act! 2000 (version 5, although 6 is now available) is a good PIM for Windows & it imports most of Outlook's data. Anyway, give the free demo a try. It's must better than previous versions. Miss seeing you on CFH.
Anonymous
April 24th, 2003
at 10:13am
Chris is retarded.