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 === Comments on Lightning integration ===
 If you choose to integrate lightning and move TB3 towards a heavier email application like Evolution/Outlook etc. it should be considered to provide a Thunderbird lite version without lightning etc. similar to outlook express.
+Newbie(kulic):  Subject Lightning/iPhone
+Lightning extension featuring implementation capabilities of David Allen's GTD would be nice.  I currently use the Lightning extension in Thunderbird2 and designate a different calendar for each generalized project. It's a kind of workaround, but it's pretty good. It might be nice to have an option for the tasks to be visible on the calendar by date.  Something like that.
+Ultimately, (maybe Thunderbird 4 or 5) want to be able to have paperless sync (very customizable and extensible along the spectrum from complex to simple) of GTD material, and of course have it sync with the iPhone. This would consist partially in continuing sync support for iPhone calendar(through Google and maybe also in parallel simply via wifi (a la AirShare)), but also might necessitate an iPhone Lightning App.
+(sorry if this difficult to trace threading):...Currently I've been compiling DailyAgenda txt files in Notepad and transferring them via Airshare to the iPhone for reference throughout the day. Obviously it would be nice to have what everyone calls seamless integration, and not have to draw stuff through all these different programs. ...(from GTD we would also appreciate tagging and view by context, as so much of what needs to get done at any given time depends on where we happen to be,.. so, in the Lightning roadmap it's good to have these things in mind.
+--Currently (in Thunderbird2) I find that in the process of unchecking and checking different calendars, the task list population lags somewhat. Is that latency programmed in? If so it would be a simple thing to remove. It takes too much time.  I need to be able to check and uncheck those things fairly quickly in order to compare different sets of tasks.
+--It might also be nice to have the ability to add attachments to tasks, like PDFS and other supporting materials. Typically I'll go through a brainstorming session for a particular project/task and the relevant notes will be in a .txt file. It would be nice to be able to simply drag that into the taskCreation window; integration in other words. A lot of things necessitate supporting documentation of some kind, which can take the form of htmls, PDFs, even pictures.  In terms of coding, I would imagine that you wouldn't necessarily want to replicate the actual file, but rather have shortcuts. Although in some cases maybe you would want actual files replicated, otherwise there wouldn't be access off the local machine, (ie in iPhone).
+*Again, these may be longer term considerations. Like Thunderbird 4 or so. But some of it could have relevance for the Thunderbird3.  Remember the biggest thing going on right now in the iPhone world is in the Organizer dept (and integration), and GTD (if it's done right) is the most flexible and universally workable operating paradigm for that. It's just a question of integration. And I don't think everyone is (at all) comfortable uploading their lives(this is common now) into Google servers or whoever else is running sync servers(a lot of companies are). It's just a bit too much of a security risk. So I would continue to support Google sync capabilities but ultimately want to be able to sync by wiFi also without any of that.  Not sure about the iPhone API, if it supports wifi sync. But something to look into.
+Okay, I've rambled enough.
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