Back to the Future

A couple of weeks back, at the Tinderbox meetup, something prompted me to look for something on eBay, I don't recall what. But "the algorithm," surfaced a used copy of an old Mac PIM app, Arrange, by Common Knowledge. I became familiar with Arrange after it was sold off to CE Software to be reborn as WebArranger. (Dumb name.) Yes, a dumb name, but a remarkable app! Things were moving pretty fast back in those days, the latter 90s. The Web was the new hotness, and $495 PIM packages were not. I think WebArranger retailed for something like $59.99. I could be wrong. Maybe less. Anyway, it was pretty much just Arrange with some bookmark templates and some functionality for capturing things from a website. I didn't really care so much about any of that, I was fascinated by its PIM capabilities. It was structured around an outliner interface that could include calendar views in an item. It had been described as an "object-oriented data base," because that was hot. I don't know much about…