Intelligent Calendar

Central to Now & Then's power is its robust handling of time―days, dates, and life times. Journal entries are time and date stamped as they are recorded. Any dates referenced in entries are compared with all other journal dates to identify possible time, date and calendar relationships.

Now & Then's Intelligent  Calendar goes far beyond providing a chronological record of your memoirs. The Intelligent  Calendar understands how people think of time, experience "chunks" of time, and use time to mark and measure our lives. The calendar uses concepts such as days between dates, same day each year, day-of-the-week time series, seasons, daytime-nighttime, weekends, holidays, and vacations. It understands time-related concepts like time off, sick days, working time, lunch time, leisure time, meal time, and fun time―"we always go to the mountains in the fall."

The Intelligent  Calendar can represent your retrieved memoirs as LifeLines with any of your journal information displayed in time series either chronologically or by other calendar options such as "on every June 12th in my history".
 

The Intelligent  Calendar can automatically pull together special views of grouped, charted, and timeline arranged memoirs to provide perspective and insight. Calendar-based views are easy for queries such as:

"what was I doing on this day every year?",
"When did I feel so creative? ",
"When were the 10 last times I went on a bike ride?"

Your review of a current interest, line of thought, activity, or philosophy may fit into a time "arc" constructed and made visible by the Intelligent  Calendar. The Intelligent  Calendar learns how how time is personally important to you and how you work with days and dates. It provides endless ways to collect, compare, and contrast your memoirs, navigate by time, and create time maps around focused topics.

Now & Then's Intelligent  Calendar is optimized to support life examination and retrospection. It provides an unmatched ability to examine your past and find insight from your memoirs. Although Now & Then can track appointments it is not meant to replace your appointment book which is focused on "future" appointments―in contrast to Now & Then's focus on today and all of your yesterdays.

also see: Product features . . .Intelligent  Calendar,   LifeLines ,  Calendar Navigation

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