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Posted by Amontillado
Jul 24, 2023 at 11:59 AM
Fun trivia - IBM used Lotus Notes internally until fairly recently and may still use it to this day. I’m not sure.
I am no longer an IBM’er and will neither conform nor deny I ever was one.
No, wait, I meant “confirm”. “Conform” must have been entirely unintentional. Sorry. Never meant to write that.
Posted by Dormouse
Jul 24, 2023 at 12:21 PM
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,” ”
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 24, 2023 at 01:07 PM
Ah yes, I’ve remembered what I was wittering about earlier. Lotus Agenda wasn’t the app I was thinking of, as it happens – I was thinking of Lotus Organizer, originally developed by a small UK-based firm and then bought by Lotus. A very similar program was originally published by Borland: Sidekick. The Windows version of this was really quite powerful and pleasant to use, and I used it for a couple of years before CRIMPing away to something else…
And that in turn reminds me of the (again, very similar) Palm Desktop. We did a lot of work for Palm Europe back in the day, but you youngsters won’t remember what a Palm handheld device even was. My whole production team had Treo mobile phones for a few years, before the iPhone comprehensively nuked the market, blew away Windows CE and caused Palm to sell off PalmOS (after the latter had caused Psion to sell off their extraordinary and much-lamented Windows-lite OS – vastly superior to Windows CE). Ah, those were the Golden Days! I still toy with my AlphaSmart Dana (running on PalmOS) and Psion 5mx even now, before regretfully putting them back in the drawer where they belong.
Posted by Lucine
Jul 24, 2023 at 05:02 PM
Oh, my bad, so Lotus Notes and Lotus Agenda are two different software. Strange that two (or more?) big software projects of the past both have Lotus in their name.
Good to know Anytype is way better than Lotus Notes despite what people claim. We really are living in the golden age of software. Anytype has enough good ideas that it might turn out to be the one that outlasts all the others, who knows.
I don’t find Anytype entirely intuitive for my use case though. For example, I don’t need to see all books I’ve ever listed, but need the mention of some books to be part of another whole. Eg. a specific class that lasts 6 months. So I can neither use “class” nor “book” types to really capture what I’ll need for the next 6 months. That’s something Airtable is better suited for.
Also, not sure why they call the items “objects” when they really mean “type” and it’s even in their name.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Heh, that’s amusing. I made my Lotus Notes comment before reading the
>interesting YCombinator thread – and the very first post
>mentions Lotus Notes. Well, there are a few people who remember it,
>then.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 25, 2023 at 07:22 AM
Yeah, the name is a bit odd. Wasn’t there some kind of font utility called AnyType back in the day? Maybe there still is?
Lucine wrote:
>Also, not sure why they call the items “objects” when they really mean
>“type” and it’s even in their name.