I love working with KDE and am an academic myself in the medical research world, so data statistics and referencing is the mainstay and I find solace currently in Excel, R, Plotly, Word, Citavi and Docear and xpdf viewer
Looking at Calligra.... there is so much oppotunity to expand this into an academics dream that I wish I had any code writing ability to have a go at it myself. Braindump could be expanded to inlcude a fully functional mindmapping tool like an expanded freemind, add then the docear referencing and pdf / biblio crossfunctionality, which is potentially where okular could step in to take the functionality of xpdf viewer, PLUS the multiformat reader it already is (potentially also a metadata colecter and organiser, taking the place of Calibre!), add the okular referencing/ note taking to words... and you have a citavi equivalent. built in search engines can be worries about later ;p
I know there a long way to go but am I totally dreaming or would this not be fantastic addition to the kde world. let's face it this is the market and the thing that has and will distinguish kde from gnome and calligra from libre office. more functionality, flexibility and catering to the academic functionality and tools as well as finessing the more wide spread basic uses of a office suite.
any developers any thoughts on this? I have my tools already but would love to have them all under a kde roof and improved!