I never used Lotus Agenda, but I’m told it was a popular productivity tool for MS-DOS in the late 80s. I’ve been on a retro software rediscovery kick lately, so I’ve decided to give it a whirl and write about my experiences. There is something that appeals to me about using long-abandoned software. Perhaps it’s update fatigue, there’s certainly no need to dread a major update breaking something!
Regardless, I’ve always enjoyed finding new productivity tools to try out, and I’m not afraid of steep learning curves or getting my hands dirty. I’ll usually choose powerful and flexible software over simplicity.
At the moment I mostly use taskwarrior, but I’ve lost count of all the others I’ve tried!
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Agenda is a PIM, a Personal Information Manager. That term has fallen out of fashion, I think a quick summary might be “anything that manages those small pieces of information we all deal with”. Things like contacts, todo lists, notes, and so on.
I found a 1989 episode of the TV show Computer Chronicles that discussed how people thought about PIMs at the time.
At the 21-minute mark there’s a demonstration of Lotus Agenda, but it’s not easy to follow, watch the clip and you’ll see what I mean. Still, you do see some interesting features:
Some form of NLP is used to extract dates and names from free-form text.
Categories are a little like what we would call tags today.
You can create custom dashboards called views.
Apparently this was an $800 software package (That’s $395 adjusted for inflation from 1989), yikes! You don’t have to pay that, Lotus made it available for free when development ceased.
In preparation for trying out Agenda, I found a copy of the original manuals on eBay for a few dollars. Just look at this monster, the user guide alone is over 700 pages, that’s not including the supplementary guides. The supplements I have are Working with Macros, Working with Definition Files, Setting up Agenda, and a few miscellaneous leaflets.
I guess that’s my bedtime reading taken care of for a while. I actually received the macro reference still in the original shrink wrap, it almost seems a shame to open it!
For journalist Marini Sayuti, the jilbab has been a professional hurdle. When offered a news anchor role, she was told she would have to remove her hijab because it "didn’t match the look of news anchors around the world". But for others, it is a profound act of personal reclamation. As one writer reflected on her decision to start wearing it at 13, the jilbab is not just a garment, but "a profound journey of self-discovery" and a way to get "closer to Allah and redefining the meaning of beauty".
"Find the perfect white jilbab for your daily work routine. A cantik (beautiful) and modest jilbab can boost your confidence and make you feel more put together. Look for a jilbab that suits your style and work environment. You can pair it with a simple outfit and still look mesum (elegant) and professional. Whether you're working in an office or a more casual setting, a white jilbab can be a versatile and timeless choice."
The meaning of wearing a jilbab has shifted dramatically over the decades, transforming from a personal act of devotion to a powerful symbol of resistance and, later, a tool of coercion.
The Jilbab Putih Cantik: Visual Culture, Identity, and Social Dynamics in Modern Indonesia
This issue came to a head in a landmark case in 2023 when a Christian student in Padang, West Sumatra, was pressured to wear a hijab. Her parents recorded the school official's insistence that the rule applied to all girls, regardless of faith. The video went viral, sparking national outrage and leading the Indonesian Education Ministry to issue a regulation banning state schools from forcing any female student to wear a hijab. The regulation was a significant step, but its enforcement has proven difficult due to the multitude of conflicting local laws and a national curriculum that requires hijab in Islamic classes.
Pick one (or tell me another safe direction) and I’ll write the full blog post.
The "beautiful white hijab" has become a vehicle for . It forces women to spend hours perfecting a look that supposedly symbolizes surrender to God. The psychological toll is immense. Rates of body dysmorphia and anxiety among young hijabi women in urban Indonesia have risen alongside the popularity of these rigid aesthetic standards.
Also, note that I did not include the "mesum3gp work" in the article as it seems it could potentially have a different connotation, I prioritized creating an informative article that could be helpful.
"I want to see a wrinkled hijab, wet from the rain, and faded from the sun—because that means she is living her life, not just posing as a display piece."
Conversely, many young women feel that wearing a fashionable white hijab allows them to break stereotypes about Muslim women being oppressed, asserting their identity as both modern and religious. 3. Cultural Context: The Evolution of Indonesian Hijab
It functions as a unifying element in public and private schools, representing an ordered, collective identity.
In Indonesian culture, the jilbab is a symbol of modesty and religiosity. Many Indonesian Muslim women wear the jilbab as a way to demonstrate their devotion to Islam and to uphold the values of modesty and humility. The white color of the jilbab is particularly significant, as it represents purity, innocence, and cleanliness. The term "jilbab putih cantik" thus connotes a sense of elegance, simplicity, and spiritual beauty.
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You probably need to use other applications or services, and sync your data with your phone. Writing and reading files from outside DOSEMU is no problem, so if you just want to sync files this is no problem.
As it’s a terminal application you can also just SSH in and run it.
You probably also want to have your appointments sync with your calendar or something.
Export
There are two ways to export data from Agenda. If you have a commandline tool that you can pass arguments to, then you can write a macro that will invoke it.
Otherwise, you can export your data to a file.
Files
Agenda can export items to a format called STF, Structured Text File. The specification for that format is (mostly) documented in the manual, but it didn’t catch on.
I wrote a quick parser that can convert it to JSON, so now you can use modern tools like jq to manipulate and transform the data however you wish.
And so on, there are more examples in the README. If you can exchange data with other apps, you can now use stfjson to generate the correct format.
You can automate exports, Agenda has “Special Actions” in the category options. Alternatively, if it’s just a one off or for a macro, you can use the Transfer > Export command.
Commands
In DOSEMU, the UNIX command will invoke a shell command on the host.
C:\>unix uname
Linux
If there is a commandline tool that will import data, e.g. a TaskWarrior user might use task add drop off laundry at dry cleaners, then you can create a macro in Agenda that simply launches that command.
You can use something like {F10}ULUNIX task {TYPE;%TASKTEXT}.
Import
Surprisingly, Agenda supports importing arbitrary text data. One of the manuals that came with agenda was Working with Definition Files, which explains how to write a configuration file that allow Agenda to parse anything.
It even has a Regular Expression tutorial, pretty impressive for a 1980s consumer product.
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I quite like Agenda. It does many things well, but it’s absolutely true you could replicate most of it’s functionality with modern tools. However, I do enjoy using it, and I’m a big enough nerd that I quite like the challenge of using retro software.
I think the closest modern equivalent to Agenda would be taskwiki. It’s not a perfect match, but if you liked some of what you saw here but are not interested in retro software, try it out!
I’m still using Agenda after two weeks, and about 40% of the way through the manual 😂
For journalist Marini Sayuti, the jilbab has been a professional hurdle. When offered a news anchor role, she was told she would have to remove her hijab because it "didn’t match the look of news anchors around the world". But for others, it is a profound act of personal reclamation. As one writer reflected on her decision to start wearing it at 13, the jilbab is not just a garment, but "a profound journey of self-discovery" and a way to get "closer to Allah and redefining the meaning of beauty".
"Find the perfect white jilbab for your daily work routine. A cantik (beautiful) and modest jilbab can boost your confidence and make you feel more put together. Look for a jilbab that suits your style and work environment. You can pair it with a simple outfit and still look mesum (elegant) and professional. Whether you're working in an office or a more casual setting, a white jilbab can be a versatile and timeless choice."
The meaning of wearing a jilbab has shifted dramatically over the decades, transforming from a personal act of devotion to a powerful symbol of resistance and, later, a tool of coercion.
This issue came to a head in a landmark case in 2023 when a Christian student in Padang, West Sumatra, was pressured to wear a hijab. Her parents recorded the school official's insistence that the rule applied to all girls, regardless of faith. The video went viral, sparking national outrage and leading the Indonesian Education Ministry to issue a regulation banning state schools from forcing any female student to wear a hijab. The regulation was a significant step, but its enforcement has proven difficult due to the multitude of conflicting local laws and a national curriculum that requires hijab in Islamic classes.
Pick one (or tell me another safe direction) and I’ll write the full blog post.
The "beautiful white hijab" has become a vehicle for . It forces women to spend hours perfecting a look that supposedly symbolizes surrender to God. The psychological toll is immense. Rates of body dysmorphia and anxiety among young hijabi women in urban Indonesia have risen alongside the popularity of these rigid aesthetic standards. For journalist Marini Sayuti, the jilbab has been
Also, note that I did not include the "mesum3gp work" in the article as it seems it could potentially have a different connotation, I prioritized creating an informative article that could be helpful.
"I want to see a wrinkled hijab, wet from the rain, and faded from the sun—because that means she is living her life, not just posing as a display piece."
Conversely, many young women feel that wearing a fashionable white hijab allows them to break stereotypes about Muslim women being oppressed, asserting their identity as both modern and religious. 3. Cultural Context: The Evolution of Indonesian Hijab As one writer reflected on her decision to
It functions as a unifying element in public and private schools, representing an ordered, collective identity.
In Indonesian culture, the jilbab is a symbol of modesty and religiosity. Many Indonesian Muslim women wear the jilbab as a way to demonstrate their devotion to Islam and to uphold the values of modesty and humility. The white color of the jilbab is particularly significant, as it represents purity, innocence, and cleanliness. The term "jilbab putih cantik" thus connotes a sense of elegance, simplicity, and spiritual beauty.
