Product Comparison

Feature table

Product	Chandler	Outlook	Tbird Mail.app gmail	groups mailing lists	iCal gcal	Outliners Word Excel	Wikis	IM, Chat	One Note Omni Focus	Basecamp
Dump all your thoughts
Track milestones and due dates
Schedule meetings
Meeting agenda and notes
Track/share personal status
Brainstorm ideas
Discuss issues and resolve to decision
Track information in a list (shopping list)
Track info in a table (giving away T-shirts)						(Excel)
Recurring chores (pay bills)
Track to-dos and next actions
Find contact info
Source of truth for individual
Source of truth for group
Point to point share
Group share
Drive by collaboration					(gcal)
Remote access			(gmail)	(groups)	(gcal)
Offline			(desktop)
Cross platform			(Tbird, gmail)

Ideas for narrowing the model

• Info manager:
  • Wrap head around everything I need to do
  • Not think to hard to dump ideas
  • Source of truth (maintenance)

Outliners/Text: good at wrap head around, not so good at not think to hard, bad at source of truth Chandler: good at source of truth and not think to hard, will eventually be good at wrap head around (within a year)

• Group, personal:
  • collaboration (sync, async)
  • source of truth (share track status, focus attention, record decisions)
  • communications (discussions, comments)

• Time/cal:
  • track milestones and dates
  • scheduling
  • recurrence
  • understand hard landscape

• Web/desktop
  • offline
  • remote access
  • casual collaboration
  • cross platform