Desktop Calendar Software

Designing an electronic cork board?

For a university project I have been asked to design a digital corkboard (i.e to organise important letters, invitations, postcards, post-it notes etc.) as part of our design I have been asked to perform interviews on how people currently organise these things. I would be extremely grateful if people could answer a couple of simple questions. 1.How do you currently organise your letters, invites, calendars etc? 2.What limitations do you feel your current system has? 3.Are there any other functions you would like a digital corkboard to perform. If you could include your age that would also be very helpful Thankyou in advance

Public Comments

1. For items sent through the regular post, I collect them in a basket on my desk until the event has passed. Important letters are kept in a file cabinet if needed for longer than a few weeks. Electronic mail that I need to keep is separated into various compartments by sender, and sometimes by event especially if Im organising the event. All of it is maintained in the 'mail tool.' I keep electronic notes in a set of directories under my home directory. This includes PDF files of papers that I have read and wish to keep for further reference, and other reference files that have been sent to me. I maintain my calendar on a hand-held device so that I can cary it with me when I need to. Assuming that I could scan in physical notes/invites/letters, it would be nice to have something that provides a discriptive index to all of my files and allows me to generate/maintain a set of cross references. For me, it is manditory that the information be kept in native files, not wrapped into some database, so that I can easily search, or send as an attachement to an email, a bit of the information without having to 'extract' it. The only thing that I feel is lacking to my current system is an index. As far as age, over 40. Hope this helps.