One of those sexy things back in the late eighties, maybe Lotus Agenda, had a handy function where textual date information, such as "today", "next monday" etc. rather intelligently was transformed to the correct dates. This was one of the hidden treasures I would expect to find in Zoot, but I couldn't find it in the help. It should work everywhere in an item, so that you could easily insert a date like that. You can bring up a calender and pick a date from there - but it is not REALLY class, like it would be if it could automatically transform text that should be considered a date.

This could even be extended, so that you could use it for other information in the database/project. If, let's say, you had columns named "phone" and "spouse", it could automagically write the phone number of John Doe, if I wrote "phone of John Doe". If I wrote "spouse of John Doe", it would suggest "Jane Doe".

Wouldn't that be a "zootish" feature?

Regards, Peter.

Peter

One of those sexy things back in the late eighties, maybe Lotus >Agenda, had a handy function where textual date information, such >as "today", "next monday" etc. rather intelligently was transformed >to the correct dates. This was one of the hidden treasures I would >expect to find in Zoot

It is in the help, try looking for "Reminder items" where it will tell you that you can write things like "next monday 5pm" in the date field.

Not sure about the other question

Assuming it is still there, someone wrote a piece on replacing Agenda with Zoot and placed it in the Yahoo groups file section.

I would ask about this in the Zoot forum.

Graham