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- From: Alan_Barclay@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan Barclay)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Managing Notes
- Message-ID: <16338@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 17:34:44 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- PIM? Oh! Another posting tells me this means a Personal Information Manager.
- I believe Agenda does market itself for that use, but it is far more flexible
- than most PIMs (and requires more setup to use as one). As I said, the best
- description of Agenda is an inverted database: one can enter data scraps from
- the keyboard or from textfiles. The data exists as an entity in the
- "database" which you can attach properties to. You can create views to look
- at data with given properties. One neat feature is that once a property is
- defined, any new data scraps will be automatically attributed that property
- if the scrap contains one of the property's keywords. Thus the property
- "computer" would be assigned to any enter containing the word "computer."
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- I find agenda useful for storing scraps of information in a sort of freeform
- style.
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- As a side note, Lotus has trouble marketing the program because it is not
- easily categorized. One has to use it to appreciate it.
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- Alan
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- alan_barclay@mindlink.bc.ca
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- "Advertising and propoganda... pretend to address themselves seriously to a
- subliminal audience of cretins, an audience that may not even exist, but
- which is assumed to be simple-minded enough to accept at their face value the
- statements made about the purity of a soap or a government's motives.."
-
- -No
-