Six years in the making, the 1.0 version of Open Source Web and desktop info organizer Chandler finally arrived on Friday. It was not met with thunderous acclaim, nor did it get the kind of press its development cost of $8 million and tens of thousands of volunteer hours was supposed to generate.
Chandler consists of the Web-based Chandler Hub, and desktop clients for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is meant to be your everywhere digital notebook for organizing appointments, tasks and notes. Chandler lets you import and export calendars to just about any iCal-compliant application, such as Google Calendar and Apple iCal; it creates alarms and reminders; and it provides simple task management.
I can remember when Mitch Kapor--the founder of Lotus Development and Lotus 1-2-3, the man who gave reason to put a PC in every office on the planet--started this project. It was going to free the masses from domination by Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server and triumphantly herald a new age of open-standard killer software.
Chandler is a capable to-do list manager, but its design and capabilities are dated.
Despite some innovations in brings to the category, it has not delivered on the promise. Here's where it fails:
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