CRM / Content Management in Gmail

[Abexman]

I am looking for any suggestions or to get other's opinion how they
organize. I use several personal gmail accounts a few business domains
run using Google Apps. A couple of things I am looking for:

1. gmail contact management
> auto capture people's signatures into contact details
> ability to add additional cases/activities/attachments etc to contacts in gmail to note phone conversations and other details not recorded via email dialogues, like any crm system
> tie those cases/activities to calendar events or todo lists
> group contacts (not into email groups) but into categories for volnuteer work, personal, job 1, job 2 etc like in Airset
> contact sharing between gmail accounts (google apps has this)

2. to do list in gmail, like the widget available for google deskbar

I prob could think of more items on my wishlist but thats all for now.

Airset seems to do many of the above but I hate using 2 applications
and haven't figured out a slick way to sync gmail with airset without
going thru the desktop somehow. It seems like gmail is very close to
having a really decent contact management system with just a few
tweaks.... if only!

[TinMan]

Here's something I just found on del.icio.us :
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/02/transform_gmail.html

Cheers.