The New Chandler Project (rearchitecture)

Chandler is a PIM, with support for notes, reminders, events, and the concept of triage.

Chandler is also a platform for building a PIM. Chandler aims to allow application builders to build different PIMs by reusing different pieces of Chandler.

Core Chandler Sub-Projects

Chandler-Platform

The basic unit of data in Chandler is an Item. The Platform project provides tools for building applications that create and extend Items.

• The Chandler Platform
  • Items, Extensions and DashboardEntries
  • Time Services
  • Bi-Directional References
  • The Runtime API
  • Building Interaction Models in Chandler
  • The Table Interaction Component

Chandler-App

Chandler application-specific code.

XXX This is a catch-all project for now; as it grows we will likely

split it into separate projects, perhaps e.g. Chandler-PIM, Chandler-wx, etc.

• The Chandler Application
  • Domain Model
    • Triage Status
    • Reminders
    • Events
    • The Chandler Dashboard
    • Recurrence
    • Keywords on Items
  • Interaction Model
    • Events - Interaction Model
    • The Chandler Sidebar

Sharing

Sharing doctests are more focused on testing and less on being instructive, so they’re separated out from the main Chandler-Platform and Chandler-App documents.

• EIM - Extensible Information Model
  • The Sharing Record API
  • Internals
  • Serializing EIM: EIMML

• Serializing Chandler 1.0 Data

• Translator
  • ItemRecord type
  • NoteRecord type
  • EventRecord type
  • Recurrence
  • Modifications
  • Custom Reminders
  • Relative Reminders
  • Collections
  • Collection Membership
  • Cosmo workarounds

Chandler-Development

Tools for developing and debugging Chandler. For the moment, this containts a PyShell window you can use for debugging.

• Chandler Development Plugin
  • The Viewer utility class
  • Debugging Widgets
  • The Debugger

Hooks

Because Chandler makes extensive use of entry points, any entry points used should be documented in Hooks.txt.

• Hooks

Testing

Each Chandler Sub-Project should have a README.txt, a collection of test_*.py tests, and a test_suite.py which runs all tests and doctests all .txt files.