Aethera

Aethera is a pim application, that means it can handle all kinds of personal information: email, contacts, notes, tasks, todos Aethera is a pim application, that means it can handle all kinds of personal information: email, contacts, notes, tasks, todos, journals.

Aethera has various communication features regarding: send/receive email, send/receive task requests and appointment requests via email. It can help you to know quickly the world\'s news and weather.

Aethera is a new cutting edge communications and personal data management software written with Qt and deployed for Linux and soon for Windows and Macintosh.

By PIM we mean Personal Information Manager, by PDR we mean Personal Data Repository, the rest should be obvious. Aethera supports all the standard messaging protocols such as POP and IMAP with full synchronization capability as well as support for multiple identities. All the features you would expect to find in an industrial strength email system are part of Aethera.

In addition there is a personal calendar and schedule that integrates with the Groupware portion that will be released later, as well as "sticky" notes, "To Do" lists and an address book. The Groupware portion of Aethera can be as simple as sharing your personal schedule to arrange meetings and discover scheduling conflicts. Aethera will also be able to create discussion forums and knowledge bases within the enterprise or across the Internet.

Aethera will also supports sophisticated work flow management through a graphical interface that allows you describe the flow of work through a process. Perhaps a document needs to be reviewed by, and signed off by several different people in a particular sequence. When that is done, then a copy is faxed or printed or emailed to another recipient at another location, and the task is then flagged as completed and notification is sent to the task manager.

A web interface is also available so that you are never out of touch with your information. Eventually Aethera will integrate with our Project Management software as a fully integrated solution. The PDR portion of Aethera will allow for new, and to our knowledge, completely unique features for managing your personal information. How many places do you have to organize information? You have your disk drive where you create directory structures and save information.

You have web pages that you save in the bookmarks of your web browser, and you have your email. How often have you saved a bookmark only to have the link go away later, or you can\'t remember why you saved it? How often have you saved an email, and then can\'t remember why? Two very exciting pieces of Aethera address these issues for you. theKompany.com is creating a component that will allow any enabled application to save it\'s information into the Aethera virtual file system.

This one step allows you, but does not require you, to save any and all files into a single hierarchy that is easily organized, indexed and searchable. You will even be able to use Aethera to save your bookmarks through Konqueror and have multiple sorting criteria so that you can easily find and use them. A plug in for Konqueror will also allow you to save whole, or in part, web pages into the Aethera VFS instead of just saving the URL. This becomes even more useful with the next piece.

The companion piece is the Annotation Tool. This component allows the user to add any personal notes to any piece of information being saved. So now you can save off that web page and make some notes on it when you save it as well as maintain the original URL information if needed. You can now file away your emails into folders and put your own notes and thoughts with them, ensuring that you will always know what your various correspondence were about in case the thread is lost.

Anything that is saved into the VFS will have the ability to be annotated, giving you ultimate control over your personal information. All of Aethera will be fully scriptable for implementing filters and automated tasks with our Python based VeePee scripting environment.