On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Tomas Sakalauskas
<[email protected]> wrote:
First of all I would like to say big thank you for this really good
email
client.
Thanks!
So, two days ago I presented a Geary email client in my university in
Lithuania as open source software for studies. That was a great
presentation
I think, because I have lots of questions and suggestions how we can
improve
this program.
That's great to hear.
I know this is simple email client and I think that is a main reason
why I
like this client today for easy way to use and get everything what I
need
with emails in one click, but here I missed two addition screens or
desktops
(I do not know how we can it name) - calendar/meetings and tasks.
* Calendar - to make appointments, mark special meetings,
etc.; it
is very usable for me and my colleagues in university and company.
3
The philosophy behind Geary is that it focuses on email, leaving other
common use cases (like calendaring and task lists) to applications that
specialize in those areas. We very much would like Geary to integrate
with a calendar application at some point
(http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/6531), but only in that Geary would
launch the user's default calendar application (to add an invite, for
example).
I closed a ticket a year ago on the subject of task management, but
have reopened it: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5943 Like
calendaring, we'd prefer to integrate with existing software than build
our own.
I'd also point out that there's a modern trend to use your Inbox as
your task list. The company that produces the iPhone app Mailbox,
their first app (Orchestra) was a task manager that you could populate
from your Inbox. You forwarded messages to a magic email address and
it would add the message as a task to your list. There's also Inbox
Zero, which isn't the same thing, but it also describes a method of
managing your daily workflow via your Inbox. These are the kind of
advanced features I could see adding to Geary. We have a blanket
ticket for discussing their design: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7088
Another idea from business side can be adapt Geary to Android or/and
iPad.
When I see today's statistics of selling tables I see market of Geary
there.
Why? Because Geary is simple, very intuitive and works well for emails
reading, answering and for other features witch I described above. I
imagine
it as great opportunity to grow and get lots of users.
This has been discussed internally and elsewhere. Frankly, the Android
and iPad market seem flooded right now with mail apps and I don't know
that we would have much traction there. There are other mobile OS's
coming into the light, however, where Geary might be a good fit.
-- Jim
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