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Lotus 'Agenda' Returns as Open-Source 'Chandler'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chander-fritz dept.

RobotRunAmok writes "Before there was Outlook, or Evolution, or The Brain, there was Lotus Agenda, a DOS-based Personal Information Manager created by Mitch Kapor. Wired is reporting that Kapor is throwing 5 Million USD at the Open Source Applications Foundation to create an open-source resurrection of this PIM-Of-The-Gods in the form of Chandler, available now as an alpha for Windows, Linux, and Mac. For the Agenda hardcore among us, it's as though Atlantis is rising..."

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  1. Coming back as Chandler? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does it use the "3 Nipples" interface metaphor?

    1. Re:Coming back as Chandler? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny
      Does it use the "3 Nipples" interface metaphor?


      No, but I think it does open with the "I'll be there for you" theme music.
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    2. Re:Coming back as Chandler? by digitaldc · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, but I think it does open with the "I'll be there for you" theme music.

      Complete with a snarky comment after you finish each entry.

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      He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
    3. Re:Coming back as Chandler? by schon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Complete with a snarky comment after you finish each entry.

      "Could that entry BE any smaller?"

    4. Re:Coming back as Chandler? by digitaldc · · Score: 2, Funny

      Complete with a snarky comment after you finish each entry.
      "Could that entry BE any smaller?"

      or
      "Oh yeah, like you are REALLY going to finish THAT on time - just like your last 15 attempts."

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      He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  2. Atlantis rising by krell · · Score: 4, Funny

    "For the Agenda hardcore among us, it's as though Atlantis is rising..."

    That's pretty good and all that, but you're really never going to be able to get the dead fish smell out of the place. You're also going to have to contend with lawsuits from Namor and Arthur Curry as soon as you set foot in it, too. Best advise your lawyer to play those two off each other.

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    Where were you when the voynix came?
    1. Re:Atlantis rising by Shipwack · · Score: 2, Funny
      "For the Agenda hardcore among us, it's as though Atlantis is rising..." That's pretty good and all that, but you're really never going to be able to get the dead fish smell out of the place."
      If you think that is bad, wait til you get a whiff of R'lyeh... "ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
  3. Yeah... by Noctrnl · · Score: 2, Funny

    "For the Agenda hardcore among us, it's as though Atlantis is rising..."
    Both of you? :)

  4. Chandler... by revery · · Score: 3, Funny

    with apologies to both lovers and haters of Friends and particularly Matthew Perry...

    Could this project BE better funded?

    or

    This project is alive with the sound... OF FUNDING!