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Idea is of one and singe input source to create an email, note, contact, event and/or RSS source.

By saying "and/or" I have in mind situations, when in the same note you have a text to be kept as note, but also a info about new contact, or when you write email, you might want to create a contact and add event in calendar.

So simple scenario:
You have a auto hide panel in top of your screen with this PIM plasmoid.
Your boss calls you and starts telling you to take a note and do something (e.g. send email).
You open PIM plasmid with one hand move and start typing whatever he says.
When he finishes, you click on email/contacts... icon in a side an prepare email/contact... from the draft you just made
You might attach file by drag and drop (this plasmid is as visible as panel is)
When you are done just send/save

Scenario 2:
You drag&drop new design version on top panel/PIM plasmoid
Type "Tom"
Click on email icon, Tom@myjob.com is suggested in auto completion for email field
Send.


A mockup is made, note very succesful, but I hope you'd get a point




Idea is not to replace regular PIM app, but to make these jobs as close to user as possible. In most often scenario, user would do just one job at a time, so editing in "popups" won't be necessary, but for some occasions, such replication would be extremely useful

There could be even more services like:
-Upload via FTP
-Pastebin
-Upload and post URL in identi.ca
-Send via Kopete
-Save to file
-Save in Basket
-...
I think it would be great to have a context-menu containing those services. You select a text, right-click, choose the action - not only in KNotes but in a lot of kdeui-widgets. Of course those buttons are nice eyecatchers and I think for the Notes (their essential task is to be available for input and also for "output" (for now this means cop'n'paste)) the faster access (buttons are faster than a context-menu) would be important.

Yep, good idea to add not only PIM actions

This could be easily done by showing only the most recent used ones and/or favorites (similar like in -discountable-rati ... 47923.html ,man I have to clean up that idea), and other shown only on pop up/drop down/ second column...
Or even try to auto-guess what could be used - if you drop an image - show email, pastebin, Upload via FTP etc.

Anyway this plasmoid should be as simple (not plain;) ) as possible


Going deeper this could more like protocol, analog to system trays. So any running app could set input actions to it (e.g. kate, is you drag&drop text to this plasmoid, text would be auto pasted in recent document at pointer)

Yeah, I'd really appreciate being able to open a new email, note, blog post, contact entry etc by clicking on or dragging to a plasmoid then selecting the desired action. In fact it gives me an idea for lancelot also.

why not to add a plugin system?

Of course you should add a plugin system.
I think it would be great to enable this feature for any selected text.
Maybe it could be implemented in KWin. You select a text, you open the window-menu (alt+f3) or maybe a seperate window and all the options will be shown.
This solution ist better than support inside KTextEdit, because it would work with Gtk+ or Qt apps and KTextEdit would stay simple. KTextEdit is created for every app, but KWin-menus are singletons, they only exist in KWin-process.

The User wrote:...I think it would be great to enable this feature for any selected text....

This might be something that could be implemented/worked into Klipper, which already has the ability to do magical things with selected text which has been sent to the clipboard.

but in clipper you cant edit text, and editing is one of the key points of PIM, especially since you do more than one job with same text

But clipper integration is possible