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THE AGENDA BEHIND LOTUS AGENDA
By Jimmy Guterman. Special to the Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Jul 31, 1998 at 12:00 am

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-07-31-9901120098-story.html

“Lotus Agenda is the brainchild of one man: Lotus Development founder Mitchell Kapor ... “Today’s PIMs are very Web-influenced and they have connectivity features, but they’re stuck in the old mindset,” Kapor observes. They’re focused on managing contacts and calendars. Agenda was all about managing ideas. ... ‘God, I wish there was a modern version of this’ because I have the problem it was designed to solve.”

Kapor has even tried to create some of Agenda’s functionality into existing Windows products. “I use Microsoft Word in outline and I’ve written a small number of Visual Basic macros that do a couple of the things I most cared about in Agenda, maybe 10 percent of Agenda. But that’s all,” ”