Building a modern Lotus Organizer reborn with AI — would love your feedback
Posted by Euphoric_Ad_7404@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 4 comments
Hey everyone,
I'm building Vulcan Organizer, a modern reimagining of the classic Lotus Organizer — keeping the tabbed notebook simplicity but bringing it into 2026.
Planned features:
- Classic sections: calendar, contacts, notes, to-do
- Notion-style notebook
- Lightweight project manager ( simple Gantt)
- AI integration: natural-language scheduling, note summaries, suggestions
- Google agenda sync
I'd love your input:
- Would you actually use something like this?
- What do current tools (Notion, Todoist, Outlook, etc.) get wrong?
- Which AI features would genuinely save you time vs. feel gimmicky?
- Any must-have feature I'm missing?
More info: www.vulcanorganizer.com
Honest feedback — even harsh — is very welcome. Thanks!
AppendixN@reddit
I might be interested in the AI features for scheduling, if it were able to do something like Motion, where I can simply give it my priorities and let it do the work for me. It would have to be robust and reliable, though, as most of the tools I've tried so far are, shall we say, "confidently incorrect."
The AI note summaries would feel gimmicky to me. I've already got Otter, and I believe every videoconferencing app has meeting summaries built in. I wouldn't expect a feature like that in an organizing app.
Did Lotus Notes have a project manager? Either way, I'm not sure I would care about having one integrated into my organizer. But if it were there, I'd look for a kanban board rather than a Gantt chart.
The tools I use today are Apple Notes (the GOAT), Notion (for collaboration), Otter, and Google Calendar.
The UI image on your site looks great. I believe skeuomorphism has a role to play in making apps emotionally engaging and understandable. You've got just the right amount IMO. It looks like the kind of app that I'd enjoy using because of the design, as long as the UX was good.
Euphoric_Ad_7404@reddit (OP)
The Kanban idea is actually really good, and yeah, it's going on the list.
Just to clarify how the AI summary works: it's not meant for transcripts or active notes. The idea is you paste a reference document and get a distillation before you start working. But the way you framed it made me think about the gap, and that's useful.
Speaking of which, one thing I've been sketching out: you log an upcoming meeting, and the AI drafts the prep tasks and drops a note with the key points. Connecting what's already in your calendar to what needs to happen before it. The password vault has a similar logic underneath: it works today as a secure store, and I'm planning to evolve it into a full subscription archive.
The Home Page Summary is already live. Open the app and you get overdue items, the next few days, and your active projects in one view. Google Calendar and Tasks are fully integrated, and I already have Google's approval on that. Right now I'm in the middle of refining the visual themes.
Thanks for taking the time to write this. Feedback like yours is what actually shapes where the product goes.
AppendixN@reddit
I'll drop you a DM since it seems this is the wrong sub for discussion. I'm a UX designer, happy to give feedback!
msynowicz@reddit
You'd love some feedback, but since you have invested in this, you probably won't listen, but I'm going to give it to you anyway: Fuck your loser ass AI bullshit. There's no reason to fix what isn't broken, and the solution certainly isn't AI integration. You've somehow been a reddit user for 5 years, yet all you've done is spam this garbage over the last month including a form letter response to anyone that comments. I'm guessing you're a 'bot on a hacked account.