Does anyone have english PDF handbooks for Lotus Agenda?

Started by Lothar Scholz on 2/17/2019
Lothar Scholz 2/17/2019 3:54 pm
I want them for my archive.
Jeffery Smith 2/17/2019 6:05 pm
About 10 years ago, I saw the same sort of request on an online forum. It was from, of all people, Mitch Kapor.

I really wanted to love that app, but I felt like it was just too clunky.
Lothar Scholz 2/17/2019 8:47 pm
Ok, so i guess there is no hope to find one if even the creator himself is looking for it.
Beck 2/17/2019 10:52 pm
I tried this and it works.

From http://www.bobnewell.net/nucleus/bnewell.php?itemid=186

An Agenda benefactor has made all six Agenda manuals available.
These include Quick Start, Setting Up Agenda, Starter Applications,
User's Guide, Working With Definition Files and Working With Macros.
You can obtain them as follows.

Browse to www.mydrive.ch.
Login as 'guest@agendadudester' with password 'guestdude'.
Download the manuals from the main file folder.
The Beyond 2.0 manual can now also be found in the same place.
Lothar Scholz 2/18/2019 7:46 am
Thanks a lot. This worked so well. I really love this forum and it's members.
CalElf 2/18/2019 8:58 pm
I have the original seven manuals which are:

Lotus Agenda User's Guide
Setting up Agenda
Working wih Macros
Legal Applications
Starter Applications
Working with Definition Files
Quicki Start
CRC 2/19/2019 2:49 pm
If you are interested in the behind the scenes of this marvelous program I recommend looking at:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=79212 - This is an article from the ACM describing the thinking behind Agenda. If you would prefer to read the text of that article (without the illustrations) without paying for the full version from the ACM site, that text is here: http://waxandwane.org/beeswax/agenda/article1.html

Finally, for the true aficionado, you must read the patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5115504 (you will need to download the PDF).

These artifacts illustrate how innovative Agenda was.