The Perl Secretary Part Deux

Earlier I posted on my desire for a truly useful personal management application. Well as I pondered the subject further I came up with a mechanism for such an application. Exactly how do we accomplish that forbidding wishlist anyway? Scripts (no not programming scripts, theatre scripts, with a twist). What we need are dynamic Theatre scripts. THink of your life as a series of stories or Plays, Each area of our life is for the most part governed by unwritten scripts. A single event usually triggers a script and subsequent events may alter the scripts but our actions and expectations are still governed by these scripts. The scripts are learned as we grow up and live. For instance one of the scripts we learn as a child is the daily routine script. Get up, eat breakfast, brush teeth, play, eat lunch.... and so on till bedtime. This script is triggered by the wake up event in our lives. Daily routines are scripts for our life. There are larger scripts too though. For instance there is the Vacation Script, or the "I just got fired" script. Each event starts a script which we follow making minor or major adjustments to the script as we go.

Now we come to the result of my epiphany. What if there were an app that knew our scripts? And not only knew them but also learned as it participated in the play that is our life. What about a Personal Organizer that could be just like that personal secretary. Personal Secretaries are indespensible because they can learn our scripts for how we do things and then automate some of those tasks in order to assist us. They also adapt when we change the script. In short I want a Personal Manager app that knows and learns my scripts.