Agenda’s most important feature is
item parsing. Using artificial intelligence
techniques, Agenda skims an item for in-
formation that can be used to match items
to categories, without your intervention.
Agenda understands conversational dates
(next Wednesday, beginning of May) and
the implications of your conditions, ac-
tions, and filters. You can give Agenda
three degrees of freedom in matchmaking
(complete, some, a little) or tum this capa-
bility off completely, for instance, so it
wouldn’t misunderstand “When she
plunged from the gangplank, that was the
end of April” as 4/30/89. Artificial intelli-
gence, as it is implemented here, remains a
bit artificial.
PC Magazine, December 13, 1988, pg 101
Leo Wattenberg 