[1] The OSAF was guided by a list of 7 principles that would make up the organization's mission:[6] Chandler was envisioned as a revolutionary PIM application that aimed to integrate email, calendars, tasks, and notes into a seamless and intuitive interface.
[8] The goal was to create a powerful productivity tool that would provide a new – and much cheaper – way of managing personal information and organizing collaborative work.
[9] The development of Chandler faced numerous challenges, including technical complexities, feature creep, and management issues.
Despite the efforts of the OSAF team and the enthusiasm of the community, Chandler failed to deliver a stable and fully-featured product.
[10] The 2007 book "Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software" documented the struggles of OSAF in building an open-source calendar application, Chandler.