A Self-Writing To-Do List


	A Self-Writing To-Do List

Silkweaver

6-11-2008 7:16 PM

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software, schedulers, productivity

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New online schedulers rely on natural-language processing to take the drudgery out of getting organized.

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online schedulers promises to end that drudgery.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20887/?a=f">These new Web applications use
natural-language processing to interpret spoken commands and ordinary written
sentences to build calendars and personal organizers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20887/?a=f">By taking its cues from the ways that
people naturally talk about time, the software frees users to be general about
dates and times, says Presdo founder <A target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/eric-ly" linkindex="39">Eric Ly</A>. Imprecise phrases
like "next month," which would be impossible to put on a calendar without
picking a particular date and time, are allowed to stay fluid for as long as
the user wants them to.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20887/?a=f">"There's no widget in our system that looks
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