"This document was created to show non-KDE people what they're missing - and if you haven't used KDE a lot, you're missing a lot of things and you may interested in reading this page to learn how many wonderful things you've been missing. I promise, this is a subjective analysis of why KDE rules. I was a GNOME user for a long time, one of those users who loved GNOME UI, and I didn't know how much things I was missing with KDE until I tried it."
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Think of Kontact as a wrapper around various other programs. It gives you a consistent UI to access various different programs.
If you want, you can have a single, master window with an icon bar down the left side to switch between the included apps (KMail, KAddressBook, KNotes, Akkregator, KNode, and others). All the apps can pass data back and forth as needed.
Or, if you prefer, you can load each app separately, in their own windows. They'll still pass data back and forth as needed, they'll just be in separate Windows.
Kontact is really just a meta-app that puts all the different apps into one windows for ease-of-use. Giving you a UI that looks similar to Evolution or Outlook, but without writing a new app (it builds on all the existing apps).
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If this document aim at people who don't use KDE (like myself), maybe it would be a good idea to explain the difference between kontact and kaddressbook. Based on the quote above, it seems both are handling contacts.
Kontact is a mail suite, more like Outlook. KAddressbook just handles addresses. They access the same contacts through KParts.