despite Palms & iPhones, SWMBO still has a calendar on the wall that she writes on ... it's the household calendar, whereas those on the devices are personal ('though iPhone can have several calendars, each usable individually, and all together, as well as being synchronised between iPhones & iPods & desktops & laptops, this is somehow not convenient enough ** ) ... so a thought :
if Cortex had access to the household calendar & could interpret it, it could know about events coming-up & could activate things accordingly - eg: visitors expected on such & such a date, so need to get this & that rooms up to temperature before they arrive; eg: one or other, or all, are going on holiday, returning on such & such, so need to ... etc; eg: people expected to-dinner, so ... there must be loads of exampes !
even better, of course, if a Cortex-based household calendar could be instantly available on the wall ... or if I could persuade SWMBO to move hers to her iPhone & Cortex could link with it through the Mac network ...
** just as the timer that's on the iPhone isn't convenient enough, meaning the old-fashioned clockwork one on the window-ledge is still used - even though iPhone is pretty much always to-hand, instant visibility & accessibility is often important, multi-function screens & icon-driven, let-alone menu-driven, approaches are too much of a distraction !
if Cortex had access to the household calendar & could interpret it, it could know about events coming-up & could activate things accordingly - eg: visitors expected on such & such a date, so need to get this & that rooms up to temperature before they arrive; eg: one or other, or all, are going on holiday, returning on such & such, so need to ... etc; eg: people expected to-dinner, so ... there must be loads of exampes !
even better, of course, if a Cortex-based household calendar could be instantly available on the wall ... or if I could persuade SWMBO to move hers to her iPhone & Cortex could link with it through the Mac network ...
** just as the timer that's on the iPhone isn't convenient enough, meaning the old-fashioned clockwork one on the window-ledge is still used - even though iPhone is pretty much always to-hand, instant visibility & accessibility is often important, multi-function screens & icon-driven, let-alone menu-driven, approaches are too much of a distraction !
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