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Comment on Practicing with uncertainty: ‘Joshu’s dog spreads wings’ by Paul Read

Paul Read — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:32:35 +0000

Thankyou Steve for your gentle insights and flowering revelations. An inspiring and thoughtful article that prompted much reflection, until…I concluded I would be better to leave such noble words : Untouched. In the best Lin Yutang tradition.

Comment on Lotus Agenda 2.0 no longer a teenager by tom berend

tom berend — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:35:28 +0000

hi dar501

you have to ‘mount’ the drive that agenda lives on. when you start dosbox, you get a z: prompt, but files are on your c: or d: drives are not yet accessable. you might have to type

mount c: \agenda (assuming that you have a folder named ‘agenda’ on your c: drive.

this creates a virtual c: drive that lists the files in your agenda directory. you can then change to that drive and start agenda.

if this isn’t clear, or you can’t get it to work, contact me at tom.berend (at) cheeseandcrackers.ca and i’ll try to help you get it working.

Comment on Lotus Agenda 2.0 no longer a teenager by dar501

dar501 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:10:17 +0000

I used Agenda happily for well over ten years for my medical studies and research. In Windows, it seemed to run just fine in a DOS window triggered by a properly configured PIF file. But now with Windows 7 and a 64-bit machine, I can’t get it to work.
A 2010 blog describes Agenda running in DOSBox (http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2010/03/lotus-agenda-and-windows-7.html). However, although I can get the program to run, I cannot open my data file — I keep getting told the pathname (with does not include long filenames) does not exist.
** If anyone knows how to open one’s *.ag data file in DOSBox running on Windows 7, I’d be much obliged.
Not much more I can add to the laudatory comments already posted. It’s astonishing to me (a physician) that so much progress in computer science has apparently not produced anything as clever, useful and elegant as Lotus Agenda. Perhaps it was truly a work of genius.
Thanks very much.

Comment on Lotus Agenda 2.0 no longer a teenager by Jorge Navarrete

Jorge Navarrete — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:25:19 +0000

Does any one know if it is possible to use Lotus Agenfa on a IPAD2?

Comment on Lotus Agenda 2.0 no longer a teenager by JNa

JNa — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:34:57 +0000

Although Agenda was no real net application, I once made a mill-wide maintenance management and shift-maintenance group failure reporting system for our large paper/board/power-mill combination. Agenda database was in our Novell server and had some 30 users along the LAN. That system served the mill several years and was used also by mill managers because of easy use.
Later Agenda was replaced by an expencive commercial maintenance management system, which was very hard to use and had not by far the properties of Agenda.

Comment on The aesthetics of iMandalArt by Blanchot

Blanchot — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:55:23 +0000

Thank you for your post. Pity there is so little online notice and discussion of iMandalArt — at least in the English hemisphere. I LOVE this app (I’m also using the iPad HD version) because it works better for me than any other system I have ever used… And believe me, I’ve tried everything available on the Mac, Newton and IOS platforms over the past 20+ years.

Have you seen the recently released MandalaChart app on the appstore? It is a much simpler and, in my opinion, less elegant and less useful take on the same principle, known as the ‘Lotus Blossom Technique’. The good news is there is a bit more information online about the philosophy behind such apps and their potential usage.

Comment on The aesthetics of iMandalArt by HappyCatMachine

HappyCatMachine — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:07:29 +0000

Interesting perspective and I’m inclined to say a correct one. I do think, like the Japanese garden, it does come down to ‘does it work for you’ and perhaps it is easier for the western mind to recognise something as free as a mind map over the rigidity of iMandalArt.

I will certainly approach iMandalArt with a renewed perspective after I’ve had time to think about it and find somewhere to apply its gestalt.

As an aside, I do like what’s happened with HD.

Comment on Lotus Agenda 2.0 no longer a teenager by Bill Mayer

Bill Mayer — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:50:38 +0000

I started using Agenda with release 1 and still use it daily. It’s hard to believe that nothing has come along to replace it.

Maybe us Agenda lovers are just a very unique group. When it was still on the market I used to try to convince my friends how useful it was and never had much success at that.

@Tom McCann – I would also be interested in your Agenda add-on called “Itemize!”. I had once worked on a script that would read comma delimited files and take the column data for items, notes and categories. I had many uses for this but never got it done. Maybe Itemize does some of these jobs.

I have the original documentation and could scan some of it if there was a place to put it. Any ideas? The macro book and the stf file definitions are the parts that I continue to reference.

Bill

Comment on Lotus Agenda 2.0 no longer a teenager by pujoe1076

pujoe1076 — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:00:22 +0000

Has anyone run Agenda on Psion PDA’s operating system, EPOC?

Comment on Lotus Agenda 2.0 no longer a teenager by Pablo Liendo

Pablo Liendo — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:52:44 +0000

Hi there,

Believe it or not I still have a printed original copy of “Lotus Agenda; Working with Definition Files”, Release 2.0. Its first edition was printed 1988. Second edition printed 1989. Third edition printed 1990.

The following is the Table of Content of that booklet

Introduction
Chapter 1 Getting Started with Definition Files
Chapter 2 Creating Definition Files
Chapter 3 Using Definition Files
Chapter 4 Patterns
Chapter 5 Definition File Commands
Chapter 6 Converting and Importinf Text
Chapter 7 Debugging a Definition File
Apendix A What’s New in TXT2SFT for Agenda 2.0
Apendix B Structures Files
Apendix C Quick Reference
Index

All in all it has 108 pages. I am willing to scan that precious document in my spare time (which is not that much). I should be must gratefull if this community would suggest me where would it be the right place to post that scanned material as soon as it becomes available, lets say one chapter at a time.

Although it originaly hold a copyright ¿may I asume that it no longer applies? I understand that some time ago Lotus Agenda was released to the public domain.

Excuse my English but I happen to be a venezuelan physician, living in Caracas, Spanish being my mother tongue, happily using Lotus Agenda since 1992!

Best regards. Pablo