[Design] Getting in SYNC :-)

[Jim Sowers]

I did take a quick look at the spec before writing this, so I hope I'm 
not out in left field.  But in the spirit of PPPPP (proper preparation 
prevents poor performance) here goes:

The syncing dialog right now is focused on collections in the context of 
calendars.  However, collections will eventually contain everything, 
verdad?  So, my question is: Will we have the ability to sync a segment 
of a collection?  Let me describe why this is important in my use case.

Since I was part of the DOJ team that brought the first antitrust 
lawsuit against Microsoft (in 1994!), I have been weaning myself off of 
their apps (but not their OS).  But, I must admit, I think Outlook is 
very good, and I miss the integration.

Now I have my contacts stored on Yahoo! - 2738 of them!  Thus, having a 
service that I know is backed up is important to me.  I download and 
re-import into Thunderbird every once in a while, but it's a pain.  I 
could see using Chandler as my new uber solution -- however, I'm 
concerned about sync time when it starts to include email, calendar, 
contacts.  It might be good to be able to sync only one aspect, or if 
that is unrealistic, to make sure that I can access everything else 
whilst syncing is going on -- so that if syncing takes a long time, I 
can still be looking up contacts, emailing, etc. at the same time.

As always, hope this was at least worth the time it took me to write it :-)

jim