If you don’t know what Lotus Agenda was/is, here’s a description A typical Agenda screen is divided into three columns: one in which you enter the specific piece of information (”Call Mom,” “Sell Yahoo stock,” “Memorize Hamlet,” etc.), one for date, and one for priority. Those left-side specific pieces of information can be further divided into categories (”Calls,” “Memos,” “Ideas,” etc.). Without doing any manipulation of your data structure, then, Agenda lets you view your data in four ways: organized by category, specific piece of information, date, and priority. Then you can assign your specific pieces of information to more than one category. And without noticing it, any words in a specific piece of information that are also names of categories automatically are filed into that category as well as any others you want to stick it into. For example, if you have categories called “Mary,” “Sally,” and “Sales” and you have a specific piece of information that reads “Tell Mary that Sally needs sales reports today,” the item will automatically show up into those three categories–plus, because you used the word “today,” Agenda will file the item by date, too. >This may seem like a lot of redundancy, but it turns out to be an efficient >way >of storing and deploying information. By placing specific items into multiple >categories, any view you choose will reveal all relevant items. In other >words, >Agenda manages its database of information in the opposite way of traditional >databases. In relational database-management programs like Access and >Paradox, >you build a structure for your data first. Only after the structure is set >can >you enter data. With Agenda, you input your ideas while they’re hot, and >then >work with the program to figure out where they belong in your >structure-in-progress. > > >Will some software startup step forward and create an app at least? > >naresh >
________________________________ From: Xxxrum <xxx...@yahoo.com> What I was talking about was that even if one takes copious notes in a meeting (and I have 4 notebooks/moleskines which I randomly choose) I find it impossible to find the notes again when I have a follow up meeting. So a tablet on which one can write cursive text(in a small font ) as opposed to typing it in seems impossible as the tip of the stylus available is the thickness of an index finger (which is the minimum input it recognizes)which is super annoying. I need a tablet screen with a much finer grid to recognize a pen tip input and I don't see it anywhere except in Wacom type input devices which are annoying to use as you have look up at a screen when you write. The pen with special paper is also clunky and a pain to lug around. Finally in my quest for a information manager , I used to have a Sharp device running Lotus Agenda which was a great piece of software.Does anyone know of any replacement for it? And sorry for top posting(shiver) but bleddy phone doesn't allow email etiquette!! And Venkat,what thread drift are yu talking about? 'Naresh' NarasimhanSent from my Phone On 18-May-2011, at 11:14 PM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: On 18-May-11 6:29 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > > >There's a technology where you write with real ink on real paper - >> except it has a pattern of tiny infra-red dots and the pen has a tiny > camera that watches them moving, and from this can remember where it > moved within the coordinate system of a (uniquely serial numbered) page, > and thereby recreate it on a computer, and do handwriting recognition. > Possibly Anoto [1]? Udhay [1] http://www.anoto.com/ -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
