[Evolution-hackers] Thoughts on "Tasks"

[Morten Skarsholm Risager <morten risager nu>]

It seems everyone is being visionary about Evolution 2.0 these days but
about all other components than the "Tasks" component. Doesn't anyone
care about tasks?

When I started using evolution I was using old-fashioned stick-it notes
and I was very happy to switch to "Tasks" where I had search abilities
etc. But soon I realized that what I wanted was an outliner so I started
using TuxCards (http://www.tuxcards.de/) which is  a *very nice*
hierarchical notebook where you can organize your notes, thoughts, tasks
etc. in a tree-like structure. My only problem is that this is not very
well integrate with other applications. I want the following (very rough
ideas):

*Have clickable URLs.
*Make cross-references to my calendar. (A specific task appearing for a
specified time in my calendar. By clicking it in the calendar I want to
go to the tree I've made below this task in my outliner)
*A convenient way to "convert an email into a task" so that I can make
notes below it.
*To be able to "associate" a number of people to a specific item in the
tree. Maybe to remind me that I should ask these people about something.
Maybe to assign the task to someone. Maybe to see if they are online and
using IM.
*To be able to associate all kinds of documents/information to an item
in the tree. A click should of course take me to the appropriate
application.

I'm not really sure whether I am suggesting to upgrade the "Tasks"
component to an advanced outliner or if I'm suggesting a separate
application well-integrated with gnome. 

Any thoughts?  

Morten