This entry is about a program (Chandler) that I am currently moving all my notes, contacts, and some net collaboration all in one!  This app works on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.  The developers are working on French, German, Finnish, and other languages.  This software is currently in a release 1.0, but is still technically listed by freshmeat.net as beta.  The Chandler Web site is very extensive, and provides a complete FAQ, and a product tour where they describe the calendaring ability like Google Calendar, Apple Mac Webcal, the limited e-mail client built into the system, and how you can share collections and calendars with a list of people.

Syncing across platforms requires signing up to Chandler Hub, but since they have a policy that your data is your data, I have no problems with this requirement.  The other options that is provided is to download the Chandler Server and setup and run your own Chandler server, and sync with that server.  How open can these people get?

Once you have a Chandler hub, you can share from this hub across the Web using SSL, publish your shares, and subscribe to other published shares.  This is the collaborative component of Chandler. If you maintain an iGoogle page then you can add a Chandler Widget to this page as well, for quick access to Chandler.

Remember all this Web stuff costs server time, and network bandwidth, so if you use these components then you need to drop these developers a few units of money just to keep them going! Me, I will use the notebook and calendering aspects and contacts to keep personal data all in one place; I am just tired of using Thunderbird, GSNotes, and Sunbird when I can use this one application.