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Chadler 0.1 is now available. Here's the release info. You can download it here (windows, linux, os x).
I'm excited about this, but don't have the time right now to play with it. I'll report back as soon as I do.
Here's Cory Doctorow's blurb which captures exactly why I have so much hope for this project.
Mitch Kapor and the Open Source Applications Foundation have released the first public alpha of Chandler, the serverless, P2P mailer/calendar/PIM that looks more and more like an application framework for displacing the OS as the primary tool of info-management -- I *already* use my mailer as a database layered on top of my OS, since I email almost everything I do to someone, somewhere. I've stopped sweating careful file-heirarchies for my archived docs on my HDD and started just using my mailer's search functions to find the documents I need to retreive. Looks to me like Chandler is being *designed* for that kind of use.File system hierarchies are not something the average user should have to concern themselves with. This complexity is holding back adoption.