Your World perspective & worldview

When you query Now & Then you discover it is exceptionally good at retrieving all and only the information you want. This is achieved by using knowledge-based retrieval technologies to search a very large, yet limited, information domain ― information that has to do with only one person: you ― and only one view of the world: yours.

Since the information is indexed, grouped, filtered, re-assembled, and understood based on only your worldview, ambiguities are easily resolved and the meaning and context of your queries is exactly understood.

Now &Then knows everything about your information domain and it uses your feedback and your patterns of use to guide how it organizes and displays your query results. Its Intelligent  Calendar assembles and timelines information for easy understanding. Your information may be presented grouped by concept in Virtual Views, in time sequenced narratives, or graphed and charted. You can modify how your information is presented and personalize presentation templates for future use.

Now & Then is trainable and customizable. With use it understands, with increasing cleverness, what you want from it. It gets to know how you talk, write, where you live, it learns about your family, friends and associates, where you vacation, and your activities. It employs machine intelligence to learn about places such as streets, towns, mountains, beaches, or restaurants that are part of your world. Importantly, it learns about your work, recreation, civic or religious activities and understands your personal life perspective as it changes and evolves.

For example, say you've recently become interested in the oceans and marine animals. You're even spent your last vacations at the ocean observing its wildlife. Because Now & Then "understands" concept and context, it can zero in on exactly what you are searching for―assembling all relevant information no matter when you recorded it or whether the retrieved information contains any of your search terms. You might query,

"When and where was I in Florida when I swam with the dolphins and saw a flock of sea hawks? Who was I with?"

You are interested only in the places and dates having to do with yourself, Florida, specific people, and ocean birds and mammals. Because it knows the context of your interests and your life history, Now & Then retrieves all and only the information that is relevant to your specific Florida vacations. It does not retrieve information you recorded about your business trip to Seattle when you watched a football game between the Miami Dolphins and the Seattle Sea Hawks.

Automatically, using your training, your query relevancy feedback, and your rules, Now & Then learns, improves, and gains its own common sense regarding the management, retrieval and representation of your store of knowledge. Now & Then can even recognize serendipitous associations among seemingly unrelated journal entries and suggest kindred information for your review.

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