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Almost Agenda like feature in iOS email.

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If you receive an email on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch etc. If it contains a text string like tomorrow morning it will be clickable and prompt to add an event to your calendar tomorrow morning. Messing around I've found other text strings that work.

Tomorrow Afternoon
Tomorrow at Noon
Next Monday
Next Tuesday
Next Wednesday
etc.
Tomorrow lunchtime
Next Monday at noon

Why do I say agenda like? Well here is a quick demo of what agenda did in converting English phrases into dates. Remember this product you are about to see is over 20 years old. I always wished Lotus would have added an @function that did the same thing to a rich text field an returned the dates it contained (there was a 3rd party product addon included with R5 that did something similar called Actioneer if anyone remembers)

Posted by Carl Tyler On 06/24/2011 | Permalink |

Comments

1 - Yes, that's a very handy feature. I wonder how far one could go with making that work with Notes 8+ LiveText options and custom recognizers?

Posted by Chris Whisonant At 03:50:44 PM On 06/24/2011 | - Website - |

2 - IIRC, Google Calendar has a similar feature - it's called "Quick Add" and lets you type (or paste) something like "Dinner with Michael 7 p.m. tomorrow"

It is very handy.

Posted by Sam Sawatzky At 11:48:45 PM On 06/24/2011 | - Website - |

3 - Same goes when sending out an email with word " see Attachment" and if there is no attachemnt it should prompt " did you forget to add the attachment ? " Smarter IBM Notes Emoticon

Posted by palmi At 10:08:42 AM On 06/25/2011 | - Website - |

4 - Agenda was the brightest piece of personal information management ever. Its demise was the DOS UI that simply wasn't a match for the shiny GUI world it was competing with. I wish we had some of the features back.

Posted by Stephan H. Wissel At 01:48:59 PM On 06/25/2011 | - Website - |