Chandler, The Note-to-Self Organizer

An Integrated Approach to Managing Information

Quick Entry Bar with smart date parsing to enter everything from ideas to todos and appointments.

Triage Lists to manage everything from deadlines and meetings to random thoughts and ideas.

Tickler Alarms to auto-re-focus deferred items to

Calendaring | Organization | Web Access | Sharing

Basics

• X-PLATFORM! Mac, Windows and Linux

• Import/Export Calendars and Tasks
• Subscribe to webcal (.Mac) and ICAL (Google) calendars
• Sync with CalDAV (Apple iCal 3.x, Sunbird) calendars

• Search
• Secure your data with a Master Password

Chandler Desktop is available in:

• English
• German by Andreas Beisemann
• Finnish by Heikki Toivonen
• French by Philippe Bossut
• Swedish by Jonas Beckman
• Coming soon! Portuguese (Brasilian) by Marcelo de Moraes Serpa

User Stories

• Rick Rawson: Why I use Chandler...
• Laura Garcia: The single greatest thing...
• Andre tries the new independent detail view.
• Jeffrey's iGoogle "Quick Entry" gadget
• Sheila's "Twins!" collection
• Mimi's shared packing list

Get Started

• Basic Concepts

• Get your Data In and Out of Chandler
• Move Your Data to Upgrade

• Sign up to Back up and Share

• Back up and Access your Data from the Web
• Sync Chandler Desktop across Multiple Computers

• Share Collections

• Collaborate on Notes and Events over Email
• Get Email into Chandler

Integrated Calendaring

Manage, preview and add to your Calendar, without having to go to the Calendar

• Schedule Tasks on your Calendar
• Turn Reminders into Events on the Calendar
• Prepare for Meetings by tracking them from the Triage List

Without going to the Calendar...

• Preview what's on your calendar in the Mini-Cal Preview Pane
• Create Events from the Quick Entry Bar

Each Collection comes with a Calendar View so you can easily maintain multiple Calendars

Rich Calendaring Features

• Color-code and Overlay multiple Calendars
• Recurring events
• Time zones
• Alarms
• Day, Week and Month Views
• Mini-Calendar with Busybars and Preview Pane

Share your Calendars or Create a Group Calendar

Flexible Organization

Organize information into Multiple Contexts By project, by people, by importance, by status, on your calls list, on your calendar, on your task list, on your spouse's task list...

• Gather Notes and Events into Collections you define
• Drag and Drop them into as many Collections as you see fit

• Triage items in each Collection into NOW-LATER-DONE sections.

• Easily maintain a Calendar for each Collection

• Star important Notes and Events
• Filter your collections to see only Starred Notes and Events

Back up and Web Access

• Access your data from the web thru Chandler Hub
• Sync Chandler across multiple computers
• Sync your Apple, Google and Mozilla Calendars

• Add new items to Chandler from iGoogle
• Set up Chandler IMAP Folders to download email

Sharing and Collaboration

• Share collections to:
  • Share your Personal Calendar
  • Maintain a Group Calendar

• • Collaborate on Drafts
  • Maintain Checklists together
  • Brainstorm as a group

• See who's done what in shared Collections

• Share Calendars with Apple iCal, Mozilla Cal users
• Subscribe to Google Calendars

• Give others access to shared collections from the web

• Send Notes and Invitations to others by email...
• Edit and re-send sent items with Updates