Software: is it too much to ask?
OK. Entrepreneurs, read up. I’m gonna give you some ideas that’ll make you rich.
Start my ranting:
1. Can I really be the only person who wants to share Thunderbird/Seamonkey address books with a spouse? I mean, how hard can it be?
What I’d like:
- Each of our “Personal Address Book” collections show up as a list on one another’s address books as a list (e.g., mine shows up on my wife’s machine as “Samuel’s Address Book”. It could use the machine name instead, if it’s easier).
- We can see one another’s mailing lists in our address books
- Manual sync is fine — automatic would be even better
- Simplistic merging is OK, so long as there’s a way to resolve conflicts
- Ability to mark lists as private or shared
2. Can I really be the only person who wants to share a checkbook program with a spouse? I mean, how hard can it be?
What I’d like:
- Ability to enter checks / charges / deposits into a common account register
- Ability for either person to perform reconciliation
- Ability to have accounts that are not shared
3. Can I really be the only person who wants to have an intelligent, revision-capable backup script that doesn’t require shell on the destination end? I mean, how hard can it be?
What I’d like:
- rdiff-backup, only permitting an ftp-based push of the backup file.
More to come, as I experience more outrage.