> Having the scheduling, mail, task lists, and
> other things all together is actually nice once you've gotten used to it.
> I'm much more productive now that I was at my last company where we had
> separate systems for everything, and no integrated scheduling. I think the
> concept of Exchange/Lotus Notes is right, but the implementations suck.
maybe I should try to clarify my thoughts a bit more (as much for my own
benefit as anything).
integration is a good thing; lumping stuff together is not. GNOME's 'bonobo'
architecture sounds like a good idea (tho I'm not a programmer so I don't
fully understand it). I think it would be best to have a 'scheduler app' of
some sort; which you could just 'connect' to various other applications. So
when you run your scheduler and your mail client at the same time, you could
click on an e-mail message, and choose a 'schedule event' from a drop-down
list, fill out a quick dialog, and post it to the shared schedule repository
(if you wanted to share it).
you could also attach it to your web browser (schedule things like "hey
everybody, look at this page when you have the time"), or your other
document applications ("read this report before the meeting").
maybe I'm just pipe-dreaming here... I honestly have never touched Outlook's
scheduling tools; and have no idea how people use them; or how it could be
better, if someone would just generalize the component.
Carl Soderstrom
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