Pascal Sartoretti wrote: > > … Chandler's items are a unique combination of what other application "to > do" and "notes"; Chandler's strength is precisely the merging of both > concepts. As such, I wouldn't expect too much in the area of > synchronization with other applications such as Google or Outlook, it > might be very hard to do. Don't shoot the messenger :-) … >
I shall not shoot :) but Chandler is not an island, so FWIW I should like to encourage: * greatest interoperability with other standards-based applications/services; standards including but not limited to iCalendar and CalDAV. When I last considered iCalendar subscription in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, and/or Windows Calendar in Windows Vista, one or the other behaved peculiarly (at least, with our old SchoolTool server). Google Calendar support for CalDAV is recently official. However, they explicitly do not support To Do Items in Apple iCal 3 (and iCal responds very gracefully to this limitation). IMHO a significant obstacle is user education. <http://code.google.com/p/calaboration/issues/list?can=1> includes some classic examples of users: a) not understanding the limitations of a tool that has a specific, limited purpose b) reporting many issues that are invalid (not related to Calaboration) c) not realising (maybe, not being forewarned) that concurrent or parallel use of two or more different approaches to synchronisation can be a recipe for disaster. <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SyncServices/Articles/SyncOverview.html> presentation of the 'Truth Database' in Apple Sync Services is fairly easy to understand; if we strip away the developer-oriented texts then Figure 1 alone could help to re-educate users that things rarely sync 'with each other' in the ways that they imagine. Myth: iCal syncs with iPhone. Reality (to the best of my knowledge): iCal uses Sync Engine to sync with the Truth Database. iPhone uses Sync Engine to sync with the Truth Database. And when multiple computers with or without MobileMe are added to the equation for a single user, so there are additional issues to consider. Et cetera. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Chandler%3A-interoperability-and-synchronisation-tp1662680p1662680.html Sent from the Chandler users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
