One of the holy grails of programming is the ultimate personal organizer, that place where you can put all your stuff and find it exactly when you want it. In some incarnations it knows what you want before you do; in others its a passive but perfect file cabinet.
Many efforts underway to create the beast are focused on it as a web 2.0 or 3.0 application.
However. To be a really great organizer, the beast has to be FAST. Really fast. Like, no typeahead loading delays, no popup windows, no round trip time, no being down when my Net access is down. The speed should be like the best of the old DOS apps while the feel should be like the slickest and least intrusive modern software. It also has to have large amounts of my personal information stored privately and instantly.
Can this be done in right in a web browser? Ideally it should also have access to my email, and my hard drive. It might be web-enabled, but maybe it HAS a web browser rather than BEING a web browser. I want something like Klipper on massive steroids. Remember everything I highlight, plus all my emails, any web page I bookmark, and make it really really easy for me to make notes about anything and everything, and retrieve them all in a faceted, sortable, searchable way. Fast. Did I say that already?
I think Adobe wants you to use Flex to develop this, so you can have a richer interface than ‘a mere web browser’ and have some local storage in addition to remote servers on the Internet. Whether Flex is really adequate, I don’t know. :-)
If it is going to be a web app, Google pretty much has to be the one to do it. Why? cause I want to search thru my own mail and docs, and more people use gmail and gdocs than any other service. Hey googlers out there…how about it?
Sounds like an interesting work in progress. Here from LinkedIn blogger group.
I was asking my software savvy husband about this. Too bad, I don’t really understand the tech stuff. I will show him this one when he really is in a mood to listen.
Visiting from BHB/LinkenIn
Google are doing their best – I’ve recently discovered evernote which is pretty great, but personally for an organizer I rely on apple products – ical is less than perfect , but I ultimately didn’t like any microsoft alternatives & I’m reluctant to use google’s calendar. Let us know if u find something really good.
SlimOrganizer seems to be very good
its fast, easy to use and you can use it mobil and on your desktop pc
Every day I find stuff I want to file away for later, some of it to share with family, some to share with the world. Facebook lets me share with everyone, but not file for easy later reference, or relate to a calendar or to-do item.
The ultimate organizer should let you grab or create something, and have a list of things that can be easily done with it (not mutually exclusive): tag for later, share with world, share with circle, attach to existing item/category, save in dropbox type place.