![]() ![]() Yes, it might put personal assistants out of a job but I shudder to think what a huge productivity hole "Book me a meeting with Jon on Monday please" is for the economy. It's way in need of a major revamp and an open standard that any tool can use. What it lacks of course is genuinely useful stuff like availability lookup (hey, that was even hard to implement within organisations on different instances of the same PIM platform) and automation. The reason it's bundled with email so often is because it's easy and universal to use SMTP email as a transport mechanism. For what seems to be a trivial feature set it's incredibly difficult it would seem to be able to engineer it so it.just.works Having worked as a sysadmin for PIM/workflow/groupware tools for the best part of two decades (yes, I'm a yellow-bleeding Lotus Notes guy) the biggest single challenge for that sector has been a lack of interoperability between calendar apps. Maybe that's why the set of apps hasn't attracted as much attention, with standalone email apps being now more common. With the phrase personal information manager though, I almost think social networks to a degree filled this space. Or, in another direction, perhaps a mix of 1Password and the Apple Health app would be closer to a personal information manager, as those two keep much of the most sensitive personal data we record on our devices. And if that was deeply tied to a notes app, with backlinks like Roam Research, you could have a detailed view of all the personal information that goes through your apps and services every day. Imagine a list of contacts ordered by how recently you'd communicated, showing all emails and chat messages across all platforms with that person, along perhaps with co-scheduled events and video calls. I could almost imagine a different take on the PIM app that's more contact centric. I tend to prefer " best of breed" individual products rather than all-in-one apps, and so my default take is that email should stand alone-perhaps with tight integration with a CRM for contacts, a Notes app for reference, a Calendar for events, and so on. ![]() Everyone seems to be trying to find a solution that integrates everything. These days our communication streams are more than just email though. I don't mind migrating content out of email to my notes or calendar, but can see the benefit of having email integrated too. There are plenty of alternatives out there these days that do this. Desktop Outlook is too messy and overloaded for my needs, so I use Ferdi (open-source version of Franz) to combine everything into one interface. I use Outlook on iPad and Android phone since the different accounts all get integrated into one app. I currently have several emails for different parts of my life and they are all on different platforms (microsoft, gmail, etc). Plus, they both broke on my too many times when something important needed to happen. I've tried things like Notion and Zenkit but they felt too much like databases and had too much overwhelm for buttons and knobs and settings. Then I would have everything in one place. Still wish I could squish calendar and integrated tasks into Obsidian. Was using Todoist with Google Calendar integration and may switch back to that. I'm a teacher and find that recurring tasks with some variations (like canceled classes) are too much for TickTick. Currently using TickTick since it has the integration, but it is quirky and has issues. There are apps that are good at one or the other, but rarely both. Amazing how hard that is to find these days. So much easier to see everything in one place. I think tasks/to-dos should be integrated with a calendar since both are usually time-based. I've figured out workflows for a lot of my needs. ![]() Interlinked Markdown for as much of everything as I can because it is the most flexible and not tied to a specific proprietary app. I know, probably a pipe dream.Ĭurrently loving Obsidian for my notes and clipped content and everything else. I still have hope that it is possible and that the solution will be easy to use and implement and available across platforms. I've tried so many apps and tools over the years and have never found something that works for everything. I'm a big fan of trying to have everything in one place or at least having all the different places talk to each other. ![]()
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