I wrote a draft of this post some time ago titled “To do or not”. Now I’ve finally made up my mind. These features are moving to a later Magna CRM release:

• Mail client and mailbox integration: This will probably be one of the first to implement after I release v1.0. The point is to archive mail you exchange with your clients / contacts. This is not very simple to do and requires a full blown mail client (for writing / answering an email), and integration with a mailbox (to read mails that go to specific mailboxes e.g. sales@company.com). Integration with Outlook would be nice too ;-)
• Custom fields / form designer: A CRM application is first and foremost a data repository. So, it will be needed at some point to let the user define custom fields, design his forms the way he wants them (placing important fields on top etc) and of course get reports based on these custom fields.
• Labels / Tags / Keywords: Because with tags I can advertise my application as Web 2.0 compliant ;-) Well, the real reason is that tagging accounts, contacts, leads etc seems like a good way to organize them. Of course I would have to try it to see how it feels, especially if custom fields get implemented (as you can certainly organize things using more and more custom fields).
• API: I really believe an API is important. It’s also hard to get right, as I found out while experimenting. Although an incomplete API will probably be included in v1.0, the full API will have to wait some more.

I really want to finish Magna soon, even if it means I have to cut some (many) features. And I still have a lot of work to do before v1.0 is reached.