Tomboy is a great little app that is still in heavy development while sticking true to it's goal (simple note taking) One of the great ideas they've jumped upon is note syncing via Ubuntu One.
This gave me the idea that one of the reasons why I do not take full advantage of all the possibilities that Evolution offers is because I can't be bothered to set create multiple 'entries'for things like the to-do list.
Although the creation of better task management etc. is something for the Evolution team to do. What would really benefit Evolution and Ubuntu is a tight integration with Ubuntu One.
The way emails can be filtered and assigned to different folders within evolution is not very convenient.
The process of filtering messages by subject, address etc. only is quite inflexible and boring.
In the past, i worked with Opera for a long time, by now chose to stick to the given and integrated features within Ubuntu.
As Opera does have no calendar and task features, Evolution would be a really nice alternative, if the email filtering wasn't that outdated in comparison to Opera.
In Opera, you can create email folders and give them the ability to "learn" from the messages added and removed, similar to the already existing spam filter, but here individually for the context of your choice.
After a while and some training, the filters work like a charm and make it so much easier to sort and resort your emails.
For example, after a while the filters even recognise if the mail from a colleague belong to a project or are of personal nature and accordingly shows it within the according folder.
That's a feature i really badly miss within Evolution and which would make it a really productive tool for me.
Encrypting/signing your emails (with gpg) is becoming more and more important. But there are different approaches how to do this: Put the encrypted/signed message in an attachment ore encrypt/sign the message inline. Some mail clients support only one of these possibilities, including evolution: You cannot use inline encryption here.
This causes a) compatibility issues and is b) inconvenient for people reading their mails over a web interface because they have to open the attachment instead of reading the mail directly.
Personally, I know quite a few people not using evolution only for this reason.
Everyone knows Evolution is a excellent (probably the best) groupware suite for GNU/Linux.
It has lot of good functions for a officer but I believe it can improve more. A Project Manager is as important as a todo list and I dare to say that it would be more useful than this memo or even this simple todo list.
Many activities in my Todo list, for example, are part of a project, so a Project Manager that would be able to get this TO DO list and put all them together and manager them like a project would be great.
I had feel this necessity and I needed to install others softwares that aren't integrated with any kind of tools in my system making me to have big workaround to import and export data between applications.