Lotus Agenda was one of the most innovative pieces of Software ever to be made. When I first joined Lotus I installed all of their DOS software and found Agenda to be the most fascinating.
Since getting into Java, one of my dreams was to make a perfect clone of it using Java and Swing and then build on that. But it looks like Mitch Kapor has setup an Open Source project to make an Agenda like PIM! Yey! (Mitch Kapor is the on e of the original designers of the program and founder of Lotus).
It's difficult to explain the appeal of Agenda as even now there still is nothing like it today. Roger Boisvert was an early user too but like most people we got frustrated by the complexity of the product. Today a lot of that complexity will disapear just because UIs are more consistant and well developed.
Agenda is a PIM, you can just about still install it today, which automatically sorts your data based on rules which you set up in a tree structure. You could import your mail into it and see it categorized by the rules that you set up. It even read dates in the text and could show a document that mentioned "Oct 21st" in the calendar on that day.
Posted by stuartcw at October 21, 2002 11:10 AM