[Kde-pim] Proposal for a new pim application

[Christian Mollekopf]

Hi,

I lately really felt the need for an application which stores all my ideas, 
collected information, todos, and makes it easy to manage them.

As i couldn't find any application which does exactly what i need, i figured i 
have to scratch my own itch. 

I'd like to shortly present my idea:

Target:

The app should allow me the write down random information quickly (which might 
or might not have any relations atm. to anything else). It should be therefore 
not necessary that i specify title or anything atm, but just write down some 
random text (or store a photo, blogpost, mail, ....).

Later it must be possible to search for this information, and put it into 
relation to other data (contacts, mails, other notes, websites).

Further it is possible to tag the data to create some kind of "topics".

Finally i must be able to create simple todos from this random data, which are 
then displayed in korganizer.

The primary interface will be very basic, but allow to do all needed actions.
Plan is to have a quick interface, which doesn't require much interaction.
Primary aim is to provide a very quick way to store your ideas.


So as a follow up:

The app is a dump for random information, and allows to later relate the data 
to other data, so finally we can have clear todo's including related 
information, which allows get things done(c).

Points is to overcome the hassle of deciding where to store the data atm. 
since it's i.e. just an idea and i couldn't decide in which file i want to 
store the idea. It should also not interrupt me from what i'm doing atm.

To achieve this goal with a minimum of code, i plan to base heavily on nepomuk 
and akonadi, and integrate of course with all existing pim applications.

I'm not yet quite sure if i got the concepts correctly, but as i understand 
it, i would get all mails, existing todos, events (as soon as korganizer is 
ported to akonadi), from akonadi. While for presentation of the stored data 
(filtering), and all the tagging functionality nepomuk should be used.

KJots seems to be bound to the idea of folders and files, which is pretty 
exactly NOT what i want, although i heard of plans to move it as well to 
nepomuk (so i'm of course open to work together also there).

I found a blogpost Andrew Mason, an will check if he has a similar vision, so 
maybe we can team up.

Please note that the idea is not older than 4 days, so no code has been 
written yet, and i'm still in an early planning phase. 

I'm currently collecting ideas, and getting in contact with akonadi with the 
tutorials. I plan then to focus on the note part first, and integrating the 
file storage mechanism later.

I wonder if i should start a techbase page to collect all the ideas?

I you have any ideas, suggestions, or simply want to help feel free to contact 
me. (I'm subscribed to the pim and nepomuk mailinglist)

Regards,

Chris
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