Some weeks ago, I wrote an article on my dilemma trying to determine which language to use for a calendar system. I just thought I’d make a public update to not leave it hanging.

The solution is Emacs. I’m now using org-mode, combined with diary. I’m working on some Perl and elisp hacking (so far just the Perl) to create a calendar system that synchronizes with my Clie (using PilotManager, since it already has a conduit for BBDB). This, combined with Gnus for reading my e-mail, is working rather well, and using remember.el I can easily convert an e-mail into a task. I even switched from IMAP (nnimap backend) to the nnml backend and that seems pretty nifty (so far).

So yeah, whatever your problem, the answer might be Emacs. Or not, but it’s at least worth a try!