[Design] Smart email/calendar integration in Chandler

[Mitch Kapor]

Actually, this feature (interpreting "next Friday" as the actual date of 
next Friday) appeared in Lotus Agenda several years before the Newton came 
out. I believe, but am not sure, its appearance in the Newton came as a 
result of it designers being familiar with Agenda.

In any event, the original leader of the Newton team, Steve Sakoman, and I 
almost started a company together post-Agenda and pre-Newton.  I went on to 
found ON Technology and Steve stayed at Apple.  Another co-founder was to 
be Jerry Ksaplan, founder of Go.  BTW, Steve is now the Chief Products 
Officer at Palmsource via BE.

At 02:37 PM 12/4/2002, Peter Bojanic wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 17:32, James Shearer wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 December 2002 16:55, Peter Bojanic wrote:
> >
> > > interpret "next Friday" as a date, estimate "lunch" as 12:00 noon, and
> > > create an appointment  with Mitchell in that time slot.
> >
> > I dig this idea.  The handling of the keyword-to-time estimation could 
> be an
> > interesting problem.  The UI would have to allow easy corrections, like
> > "sliding" the time back/forward a few minutes, hours, etc.
> >
> > How did the Newton handle this?
>
>It's been a long time since I've used my Newton (first release of the
>product, sitting in a box at home). As I recall, it wasn't incredibly
>smart, but it was easy enough to change the time of an event if it got
>it wrong.
>
>This certainly wouldn't be a trivial feature to implement, but it would
>be killer, IMHO
>
>PB
>
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