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On Jun 12, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
Ted Leung wrote:
The whole command line approach seems wrong to me. Agenda, and
Apple's
Newton, both of which ran on significantly less capable hardware
than we
have today, were able to do recognition of people, dates, etc without
the need for a semantic hint such as /event or /task. It might
be that
the first cut of recognition needs those hints to be
implementable, but
I think that a longer range goal should to reduce the need for these
kinds of hints.
Yeah, it seemed kinda awkward to me too, but I haven't used Agenda
etc.
so I don't have good programs to compare to.
Todd Agulnick wrote some of the recognition code in Agenda, and he
would be a
great resource.
On the Newton, you could swipe a block of text with the pen and tap
the recognize
button in the UI. After that, it would create the appropriately
typed item.
Before this command line discussion I sort of vaguely assumed that one
would hit the "New" button in the toolbar, get a note, and start
typing.
As the NLP recognized things it would collect dates etc. from the flow
of text.
I was thinking it could perhaps underline the special things it
understood (might be hard with wx).
I was also thinking it could automatically add in fields to the detail
view as it recognized them, but that would cause the note area to
shift
downwards while you were typing, which would be awkward. Same thing if
it automatically stamped the note based on what kind of data you had
written.
Another unfortunate thing with this approach is that currently you
get a
new item type based on what is selected on the toolbar (Calendar ->
create event), and if you have anything other than plain note those
date
fields etc. get in the way if you would like to rely on NLP.
I'm not sure that doing it in real time adds a lot to the
experience. Seems like it
might be a worthwhile experiment.
Ted
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