RetrospectiveSoftware, Inc.

Retrospective Software is the developer of Now & Then, the first knowledge-based, concept-aware, and handwriting-optimized platform for personal journaling. An electronic journal that looks and feels like a traditional paper journal. A journal you can use in the comfort of your easy chair or by lantern light in your expedition tent.

For the first time, powerful search, knowledge management, and information mining methods are combined into a journaling appliance whose form is as familiar as the journals kept by Lewis & Clark, Mary Chestnut, your grandfather―and maybe you.

Advancements in key technologies have made possible this powerful new platform. for life retrospection.

With each use, the journal's software better understands the places, people, and ideas that comprise your world and your worldview. You also use guided term scaling and relevancy feedback to "train" the software about how you, personally, use language. These and other methodologies, including Bayesian query analysis, enable precise searches through years-and-years of journal entries―precise and all-knowing searches that find all and only the information that is specifically relevant to your queries.

This precision in recall is "context" and "concept" aware because Now & Then learns how you, individually, perceive and interact with your world. Advanced search, knowledge-based data mining, and an Intelligent  Calendar collect information that is cleverly formatted and displayed. The resulting retrospective is a major advancement over simplistic diary software that retrieves text based, haphazardly, on key word matches rather than concepts within context. 
Now & Then's Virtual Views provide focus and perspective by neatly organizing your journal information using memoir charts, timelines, life graphs, and "query-relevant" narratives.

The maturation of several technologies have enabled the creation of this new kind of appliance for chronicling one's life. Advancements in both handwriting recognition and lightweight pad computing enable Now &  Then to have the "form factor" of a traditional clothbound & paper journal. User-specific, trainable handwriting recognition and lightweight pad computing appliances can now recreate the traditional relationship between the writer and their journal―allowing information entry and browsing to be done in any comfortable setting rather than at the computer. 

The convergence of these technologies with the latest understanding of how our minds capture, process, recall, and reflect upon our life experiences make Now & Then possible―A personal journal made for the "easy chair". A journal that compels you to record and review your lifetime of thoughts and experiences.

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