> Another thing that seems nice in the Newton UI is the Assistant -- > it's non intrusive, you need to click > on the assistant button (always present, at the bottom of screen). > > Then, you're presented with a dialog box: > Where you can enter your request and then click "Do", or click on > "Please" to have a list of common actions: > > The other possibility is to select some text somewhere and click on > the assistant, the assistant will then evaluate the text > automatically. When the request is made, you can have another dialog > box to specify some things. For example, choosing "schedule" will > make appears this dialog box to set up a meeting: > > The "How Do I?" button open the online help (seems to be a good > location for it, no ?) > > A nice thing is that any applications can add some new "knowledge" to > the assistant, so the assistant can propose more things / understand > new requests.
I've been reading up on Jabber, since there was discussion about integrating it into Etoile, and I came across this article, which reminds me very much of the Newton Assistant: http://www.openp2p.com/lpt/a/1486 J.
