[wplug] kontact

[Michael H. Semcheski]

Hey Everybody,

This weekend I got a new hard drive and installed FreeBSD from scratch.  From 
there, I did something I've never done before, for whatever reason.  I used 
kontact, and I have to say I was impressed.

Kontact is the KDE integrated PIM.  Its got a calendar (kalendar), kmail, todo 
functionality, notes, etc.  I used Outlook for a couple of weeks 5 years ago.  
There probably are some similarities between kontact and outlook, but I don't 
know.  It doesn't feel like a rip off of anything.  Probably has a lot of the 
same features as Evolution, but for me, it always seemed like their were 
problems with Evolution.  Nothing I can put my finger on, it just never got 
me hooked.

For a while, I have been using Thunderbird / Sunbird as my email and calendar 
combo.  I think kontact blows them away.  To me, kontact had better filtering 
capabilities (sort by list ID, rather than just To or Cc or From).  The 
calendar works great.  I've used it pretty heavilly for two days and haven't 
seen any real bugs (try saying that about Sunbird).  

So thats it.  All I'm saying is if you're not 100% satisfied with your current 
personal information manager, give kontact a try.  The KDE programs always 
seemed like bastard children to me (KDE's a desktop environment not a browser 
or mail program, right?)  But I have new respect for the KDE krew.  

Hope you had a nice weekend,

Mike