On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:12:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: ..... > The concept you're proposing has some similarities to ideas espoused by > David Gelertner, whose capsule biography will always read "Yale > professor, computer scientist, and victim of the Unabomber (Theodore > Kaczynski)". David survived the attempt on his life, though he was > permanently injured as a result. > > Data on Lifestreams, Gelertner's project, is somewhat hard to find, the > following provides an overview: > > http://www.fend.es/members/magazine/march97/lifeb.html
On it's face, the idea of organizing by time is different from what I had in mind. However, it may be that the other classification facilities would give me what I was looking for. It doesn't seem things have gotten too far, though. A few details below. > > There is a set of free software projects which may be of interest, this > page details them: > > http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue199905/futures002.html > > Among them: > > - Yoga, intended as a Lotus Notes replacement ("assuming the Lotus > position"). > > http://samba.anu.edu.au/gnuotes/ > > - Casbah, "designed to be (take a deep breath) an application > development, Web server, email, discussion group, calendaring and > scheduling, content management, personal organizer groupware > product". It's modeled on both Lotus Notes and Lifestreams, a > project launched by David Gelertner. > > http://ntlug.org/casbah/ Link doesn't work. > > - GNU Gather. Formerly known as PINN. > Can't find any trace of this on GNU's site. Also there was a reference to www.lifestreams.com (as I recall); that didn't work either.
