[Design] automatic hyperlinking, explicit URI's

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Sounds great.

> Other
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> * automatic recognition of names, places, dates, and etc.; automatic 
>   categorization of items

The last one really gets me excited.  I fondly remember Pensoft's 
Perspective PIM from the days of EO/GO's Penpoint operating system.  
If you write 
	meet Mitch at Greens noon Thursday
it recognizes "Mitch" as a person, if necessary asks you "Which Mitch
do you mean", recognizes "Greens" as a location, and recognizes 
"noon Thursday" as a time.  Every one of these turns into a hyperlink 
so that following the link (the circle-tap gesture in Penpoint for 
those who care :o) takes you to the person "Mitch", the place "Greens", 
and Thursday's calendar.

It sounds like you intend to do this.  Wahoo!!

Unless I'm missing something, Outlook has nothing comparable.  Unless 
you put a person or resource into an To or Cc field, text means nothing.

The Internet and Web adds the idea of exposing such hyperlinks using a 
well-known URI syntax, so that other programs can reference them.
I would love to be able to make references to PIM information from other
programs and documents without having to do the clunky "Export as HTML" 
routine to recreate my contacts as a set of HTML pages.

Perhaps a URI along the lines of
   <a href="osaf://localhost/people/mitch(kapoor)">Mitch</a>

And then, you could imagine being able to access not just someone else's
PIM across the 'net, but specific elements in it.  I think this is the
best way to expose the feature:

> * remote peer-to-peer browsing of others' data

Cheers, apologies if I'm wasting your time (and for taking the Mitch's name 
in vain in my examples :-)

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