Right now, as I tried to say, I think Chandler falls maybe a little uncormfortably between two stools: it’s not quite all there as a calendar (in ways that I think your team already knows — printing and month view and so on); it’s also plainly much *more* than a calendar, with the dashboard and task management and stamping and so on — but these aspects of the program feel (at least to me) considerably less ready for intensive use.

My own informational needs encompass two big areas: personal GTD-style task-flow management, and the organization of huge quantities of research (textual material).

I can well imagine Chandler eventually serving me in the GTD/task management area, and serving well. But right now I’m still finding Ecco Pro best for both of these. That’s no doubt in part because I’ve been using it for so long. It also launches super-fast, responds very quickly (it’s a mid-90s application, after all) and is bulletproof (really, it never ever crashes). All these are important to me.

I haven’t chimed in on the mailing list because it strikes me that the things I need are probably already on your todo list. (And I realize that saying “make Chandler so it’s really fast and never crashes” isn’t terribly helpful!) But I’m happy to weigh in if it might help.