Lotus Agenda Rewrite?

[Jeff Chapman]

Hi all,

In my "spare time" I'm thinking of throwing together a .Net version of
the old Lotus Agenda, one of my all-time favorite software programs.
It wouldn't be exactly the same, naturally . . .

Below are my preliminary functional specs -- your thoughts? Any
programmers out there itching to write the RecognizeWhenDate object
<g>?

Jeff

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The software stores Items (a collection of words), Notes (a collection
of words associated with an Item), Categories (Index elements, each a
single word), Attributes (Entered Date, When Date, Completed Date,
Home Phone, Cell Phone, Work Phone, Address, eMail1, eMail2, or
user-defined), Hierarchies (of Categories), and Views (a screen layout
containing a treeview of the Categories with a column for Item, and
optional columns for Categories and Attributes).

The software needs to understand dates entered in a wide variety of
fashions (e.g. every first Saturday in November).

When you enter an Item it becomes associated with the Category under
which you entered it along with any Categories matching the words that
it contains.

In a view, display in the rows beneath a Category column either a
check-mark or a name of a child (or children) of the Category in the
heading's Hierarchy. If the column heading is an Attribute display
the actual value of that Attribute for each item.

You should be able to sort and filter views.

Categories auto-complete as you type them (sound effects optional).

 

[Rob Schneider]

Agenda was a terrific program. I think some of the ex Agenda
developers/designers are the ones involved with Chandler, an open source
project. http://www.osafoundation.org/Chandler_Compelling_Vision.htm

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Ken Forbus]

A pocketPC port of Chandler might indeed be a higher leverage way to go. I
miss Lotus Agenda as well. One could do so much better these days.

 

[Rob Schneider]

A little OT, but some Agenda users moved to Ecco when it came out. It
died in the late 90's. I recently discovered that Ecco is available for
free from NetManage at
ftp://ftp.netmanage.com/support/pub/utilities/EC401/Ecco32/ ...

 

[davegb]

Jeff,
I hope you can make this happen. I loved Agenda, found it extremely
useful, especially during my "creative bursts", like I've been going
through lately. I could enter a concept, idea, etc, the tie it in with
others, elaborate on it, change it's connections, and so forth. Was a
fantastic tool for any creative process that involves planning.
If I can help, like testing or something, let me know.
A Palm version would be great also.

Dave B.