[Design] Re: Why no Note view?

[Rich Hamper]

Mimi,

I've been watching the development of Chandler sporadically from the beginning, 
and I'm losing interest in the product.  The reason: I had hoped that Chandler 
was going to be the Uber-Agenda of information storage, organization and 
retrieval.

What I think I've been seeing developing here is a software product which is 
phone-contact-task info centric rather than all-sorts-of-information-centric.

Your question "When do you want to see only Notes?" really drove this home to me 
recently.  

My answer to your question:  All the time!  

I'm a professional writer and college professor who packrats all sorts of 
information. I live by my notes and my ability to find specific information 
quickly. I also live by my capability to combine such information in unique and 
different ways. Appointments and such are more incidental to me than the actual 
information contained within an information base.

I had hoped that Chandler could take all my scattered e-mail, graphics, notes, 
and standard database information and combine them in one "bin" so I could 
quickly organize and recover such information. I had also hoped that the Agenda 
ability for linking things together in pre-defined or new ways would also be 
there.

Right now, I rely on two products for my information storage, organization, and 
retrieval needs: TreePad X Enterprise and Ultra Recall Pro.  Each has its 
weaknesses. Neither has old Agenda's "smart" info processing capabilities.
  
A Chandler without a really powerful Notes View is worthless to me.  I need to 
store scanned articles, graphics, text, e-mail, etc. and be able to view them as 
Notes, quickly, easily, and intelligently. 

Unless Chandler can provide me with capabilities which exceed those of the 
products I'm already using, I won't be adopting it. 

  --- Rich 
    
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