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[Bryce Harrington <614523@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Specific types of tools or functionality worth including in such a suite
include:

 * tasks
 * time tracking
 * calendar
 * notes
 * contacts
 * project planning / time estimation
 * notifications
 * integrated day planner view
 * current context / next action tracking

Note that we don't necessarily need separate tools for each of these.
It may be that one tool could cover several of the needs.  Also, several
organization tools support plugins and some of these features might be
best achieved that way.  There is kind of a trade-off between an "all-
in-one" organizer that you learn once and has tons of features, and a
federated collection of tools, each of which focuses on one particular
tasks and remains lean and mean.

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Personal (teamwork?) organizer suite / interoperability standards
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>From http://www.mail-archive.com/gtg-contributors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00109.html :

"""
Personally, I'm dreaming of a "Personal organizer suite" with stuffs
like gtg, hamster, a calendar and tomboy (or equivalent), everything
working together. (I don't mind seeing the "gtg" brand disappearing from
user sight if needed).
"""

Perhaps the best way to achieve this is to work with particular sibling projects to come up with interoperability standards:

 * Commonality in date formats (i.e. respect 'soon', 'now', etc.)

 * D-BUS API design consistency 

 * Standardized data structures for common data objects (tasks, notes, contacts, ...)

We can consider this particular bug report complete once we have held a session on this topic at a Linux conference that includes at least 3 other sibling projects, and come up with some action items to improve interoperability between organizer tools.