Calendar Browsing with LifeLines

LifeLine
Most People (excluding some physicists) perceive time as proceeding in only one direction―forward. What we remember about our past can influence our future. Now & Then helps us look back in time. It provides a path, with signposts, on which to travel back in time, and to reconstruct and review the details of our lives.

LifeLine, is a calendar tool that represents your journal information as time series charts, chronological paths, and "life" lines. A LifeLine is really a snapshot of part of your life lined out using points, arcs, and blocks of time.

A LifeLine provides the perspective of time from which to view aspects of your life: jobs, relationships, homes, travel, activities, affiliations―anything by which you remember and measure your life. You select your LifeLine criteria: category, phrase, date range, anniversaries, or, perhaps, a philosophical focus. You decide the date range, time scale, subject
matter, and the LifeLine format that will best represent your focus.

LifeLines readily accommodate editing and personalization. You can annotate a LifeLine (e.g. emphasize milestones and pivotal or life changing events), move information around a LifeLine, and add, or change links, connections, and associations. If you wish, you can enhance your LifeLine results by using combinations of LifeLine, narrative, pictorial, and graphical representations. LifeLines can link to journal information related by topic or chronology. Any LifeLine can be saved in a static form as an image, or with its search and presentation criteria, as a template for future use.

LifeLine time-based retrospectives are extraordinarily powerful. Some aspects of your life when viewed along a LifeLine, remind you of the slow and steady march of time. Other aspects, represented chronologically, may seem to prove that "time flies". Your life examined using LifeLines can provide you with new perspectives, reveal patterns, and show where you re-fought (again and again) the same, but forgotten, battles. LifeLines are great for comparing and contrasting how your focus, and activities differ among multiple periods of your life.

LifeLines provide a powerful tool for reminiscing and reflection. Visually seeing your past in a time context can make clear and obvious even the most obscure cycles, connections, and patterns―a veil is removed and you understand your life in new and meaningful ways.

Calendar Toolbox
Calendar Toolbox is a "pop up" utility available from anywhere in Now & Then. Use its calendar tools to focus on any day or date, to drill down to a specific arc of time, to contrast your  interest over non-contiguous blocks of time, to list all journal references for a day or date, calculate days between dates, check on the total duration of an activity (you will spend 6 years of your life dreaming), or generate custom calendar views.

You can use calendar-aware Marks, Tags, Links, and Labels for grouping, focus, navigation-- and to create calendar views, reports, and calendar-based rules.

see also: Calendar-based Navigation , Intelligent Calendar

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