[Evolution] Feature Requests: Category view in Contacts & drag mail to calendar

[John Locke <mail freelock com>]

Okay, so here's a flurry of messages, and then I'll be quiet for a
while...

As I said in another email, I'm really impressed with Evolution. I quit
using Outlook months ago, because of its miserable IMAP functionality,
and once again having contacts, email, calendar, and to-do list.

However, there are a couple of features I notice immediately that are
missing:

1. Category view, especially in the Contacts folder.

In Outlook, you can assign contacts to multiple categories. Then, when
you view the contacts list, you can group by category. You can drag
contacts from one category to another (which adds the category to that
contact, without removing the category), and you can cut & paste the
list into Excel/run a mail merge on a category in Word.

This is a great way to manage holiday cards, wedding invitations, etc.,
but is completely missing from Evolution. Categories are there, and
editing them is the same as in Outlook--but you can't do anything with
the categories.

Is this feature planned for an upcoming release? Does anybody have an
alternative way of selecting different subsets of your contacts and
exporting them to a spreadsheet/other data source?


2. Drag a mail to Calendar/Tasks. In Outlook, you can drag an email and
drop it on the Calendar to create a new appointment. The mail goes into
the body (notes) of the appointment. Same thing for Tasks. These are
great ways of getting all the details on your calendar, where they're
easy to find on your Palm.


Now, a question: Where can I learn more about publishing free/busy
information to a web site? Is there a non-Exchange way of doing this?


I'm really excited to use your product--overall, I like it more than
Outlook. It's quicker, and runs on a better OS :-) 


Cheers,

-- 
John Locke
Owner, Freelock, LLC
http://www.freelock.com