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.

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.

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

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

Your screenshot of the Agenda directory looks rather strange to me. I still use another Lotus software that I think is magnificent (and never equaled): Lotus Magellan. Agenda, Magellan and 123 seemed made for each other.

I have looked at some of the other Agenda like programs like Zoot and Omni, but can’t get beyond the interface. One of the strengths of Agenda is the non graphical interface. We are dealing with words and categories, using the keyboard. A GUI seems counterproductive and slow, to me. Pictures and graphics work well enough in Evernote. I think the latter has developed a clean and relatively efficient GUI.

A couple of side notes:

My Agenda EXE shows 9-03-99. Was that was the last update?

Agenda (and all DOS programs) run very well, with good clipboard support, on Ecomstation, which is a continuation of OS/2. The benefit is that it enables us to keep DOS going on new hardware without using VMs.

Charles Bradley