My Dogfood blockers

These are the things that currently block me, personally, from using Chandler to replace iCal as my daily event management and reminder tool. Note that I curently don't share my calendar with iCal. All of these issues are known as far as I can tell, this is just a listing. In many ways the application is really close to being usable. I'm not the kind of user that depends on aesthetics and layout so this focuses on functionality and reliability.

Complete blockers:

• Performance: The application is too slow for me to use on my Powerbook. Clicking from one field or view to another -- sometimes even clicking on the field where the focus already sits to select the text to replace -- takes longer than I'm willing to wait.
• Stability: Switching views sometimes causes a crash (known) which can cause recent changes to be lost.
• Data persistence: Repository changes which lose the information I have in the calendar so far are obviously problematic for dogfood. Right now I'm working around this by putting today's meetings into Chandler only on that day (or a day earlier). This means I still depend on iCal daily as the canonical meeting info location. It means that every new meeting gets entered twice.

Other blockers (serious problems but currently working around them):

• Alarms: Any time the alarm fails to catch my notice, I might be late for a meeting which I hate. The alarms in Chandler aren't noticeable until I click on the application -- probably a problem taking focus or a feature not yet implemented.
• Switching away from calendar view: This makes the stability problem worse, unnecessarily (more crashes changing views when I didn't want to change views in the first place). E.g. when I am in calendar view and choose to create a new event.
• Losing input: When I type in the time then pick the alarms drop down the time I just selected reverts. I work around this by always clicking on duration after entering the time.
• Recurring meetings: I'm making do for the lack of recurring meetings by entering every instance manually.