I’m a happy Tungle user and have been doggedly trying to get my department to start using it as well but I keep running into the wall that more than one important individual in the organization uses a paper calendar. (Day planner, paper organizer, whatever you want to call it.) It would sure be great if you could put some marketing material on your website demonstrating a usage scenario and justification for using Tungle for paper users so that I could show it to people. As it is I’m having a hard time articulating why they should use Tungle to save me time when it’s their time that is more important.

UPDATE:

Just received a response from Tungle’s support, I’m looking forward to hearing more about this.

Hey Drew,
Glad to hear you’re a happy Tungle user. You’ve just pointed out our biggest competitor though – the ol’ Paper Calendar. Keeps me wide awake at night. Terrifying, really.
You’ve motivated us, we’ll be blogging about it shortly. I’m sure we can come up with something convincing!
I’ll let you know,

Thanks,
Jason

Even if it’s for a short Xobni trial period I’m still not comfortable giving up ClearContext and would like to run them both instead. I did a little googling and came across a post from someone else asking the same question. As usual, the ClearContext folks were completely on top of the situation, and responded that it “should” work, giving me the impression I’ve at least got decent odds of Outlook not blowing up in my face.

Probably the most interesting tidbit was when the ClearContext CEO hinted in the comments at some “sexy” new features that were in the pipe. Color me curious! I certainly wouldn’t mind a bit of Xobni’s features offered by ClearContext as well, because those screenshoots look awfully yummy. Regardless, I hope they both do well, as continued innovation and competition benefits me most of all.

(Use this link to get on the list for Xobni and you’ll help me get my invite sooner!)