> Telling me as and when that I need to visit the dentist Isn't that simply your calendar? Sure, you want it automated; but it doesn't need internet access, it

> Telling me as and when that I need to visit the dentist Isn't that simply your calendar? Sure, you want it automated; but it doesn't need internet access, it doesn't need to crawl or search, I don't know why you refer to it as a 'bot'. To my mind, the idea of personal 'bots' was that you could give it some general instructions such as "Let me know when the content at any of these URLs changes", and then leave it running. Were they also called agents?