{"id":337,"date":"2008-04-16T13:10:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T11:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-05-24T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T08:29:59","slug":"chandler-going-mobile-soon-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"chandler and mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"aligncenter\" href=\"blog.chandlerproject.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-336\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"chandler_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/wp-content\/chandler_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>for some years, i&#8217;ve been keeping track of <a title=\"chandler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chandlerproject.org\" target=\"_blank\">chandler<\/a>, an open source personal information manager. at the moment, it&#8217;s on the verge of becoming usable for me. i still miss claris organizer (<a title=\"wikipedia entry\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claris_Organizer\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>, <a title=\"screenshot from appleinsider\" href=\"http:\/\/images.appleinsider.com\/leopard-preview-ical-5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>), which i used as my calendar until 2001. since 2004 i&#8217;ve been using the built-in calendar of  the <a title=\"wikipedia entry\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/N-Gage\" target=\"_blank\">n-gage<\/a>, and now the <a title=\"wikipedia entry\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nokia_N80\" target=\"_blank\">n80ie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ll get back to chandler in a moment, but first some points about my current <a title=\"personal information management\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Personal_information_management\" target=\"_blank\">pim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>almost always carrying a device such as the n80ie gives me the possibility to immediately take note of whatever i need to, as well as being reminded of any task or meeting. this alone is enough for me to keep using the n80ie as my main and only pim.<\/li>\n<li>the drawbacks: the calendar is medieval, and i cannot synchronize it with chandler\/my computer. i don&#8217;t quite like nokia, and i prefer open source, already using linux. also, chandler offer so much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>there&#8217;s no point for me to keep two parallell calendars (chandler &amp; n80ie); i can&#8217;t combine the mobility of n80ie with the features of chandler. sheila at the chandler project <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chandlerproject.org\/2008\/04\/04\/how-i-use-chandler-organizing-my-life-as-a-new-parent\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">tells me<\/a> that there is indeed some movement towards mobility. however, it seems the next step is focused upon notifications to mobile devices, which isn&#8217;t enough for me to abandon my current pim. i have to be able to quickly get a view of my calendar anywhere, anytime, <em>and <\/em>schedule a meeting or whatever on the spot. not even my otherwise valuable <a href=\"http:\/\/eeeuser.com\" target=\"_blank\">eee<\/a> enables me to do that (too big to fit in my pocket, and too slow to get from shutdown to an open calendar).<\/p>\n<p>the iphone comes with ical, which uses the same standard calendar format .icl, but i&#8217;m not sure to what extent it&#8217;s reasonable to expect chandler to work along with ical on the iphone specifically. on a larger note, i&#8217;m curious to see the prospects of chandler working at all on a mobile device. the openmoko device perhaps, eventually? maybe chandler could go the ubuntu way and develop a specific <em>chandler mobile <\/em>version, that could be syncronized with the chandler hub?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for some years, i&#8217;ve been keeping track of chandler, an open source personal information manager. at the moment, it&#8217;s on the verge of becoming usable for me. i still miss claris organizer (1, 2), which i used as my calendar until 2001. since 2004 i&#8217;ve been using the built-in calendar of the n-gage, and now &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/?p=337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">chandler and mobility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[130,98,96,131,132],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","category-english","tag-chandler","tag-linux","tag-nokia","tag-open-source","tag-pim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oculex.fi\/thomas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}