Features

Let CALO Stardust help you manage your work so you can focus on more important things!

CALO Stardust is more than just another to-do manager. It learns and adapts to your personal work and gives you just the information you need to streamline your day. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind CALO Stardust observes the work you do on your computer and figures out which tasks and contacts belong in which projects, notify you of important emails and reminders, present resources you need to complete tasks you are working on, and much more. CALO Stardust will improve its knowledge of your work continuously as you interact with the system over time. CALO Stardust sits as a docked sidebar on your desktop — it contains a notification center, task pane, schedule pane, CALO’s current suggestions, and access to your calendar, email, and other applications. All panes are collapsible so you can customize to the information you need to see. To access the full control of features in each pane, simply double-click the pane title to open full, stand-alone windows. The sidebar will collapse even further when you need more screen-estate without any of the benefits of CALO Stardust.

Read more about the features that make CALO Stardust indispensable to your life.

The CALO Stardust Sidebar

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Prioritized Task Manager

The essential part of CALO Stardust is the prioritized task manager. It keeps track of tasks you want to accomplish, the tasks that require other people’s responses, and the tasks you have completed. The to-do and on-hold tasks are listed in order of priority that is intelligently figured out by CALO’s AI algorithm that takes in consideration for things such as deadlines and the projects the tasks belong. When you need to work on a task, retrieve the associated file conveniently attached right on the by the task. You can also search, star and tag your tasks and move them around to change their relative priority.

Intelligent Notification Center

CALO Stardust’s notification center is your indispensable secret secretary. It lets you know when you receive important emails, reminds you of upcoming events and deadlines along with any other important notifications. You can also keep track of important actions CALO Stardust has performed for you - such as when it parses your emails and adds a new task in your to-do list. CALO Stardust will intelligently figure out the urgency for each notification and present it with an appropriate level of intrusion so it will capture your attention only when it’s necessary.

Day’s Schedule at Hand

Do you have your calendar open at all time to see what’s coming up in your day? CALO Stardust lets you have your day’s schedule at your hand at any time on its sidebar so you can keep track of your day. CALO Stardust even anchors the schedule for you so you always sees the present time (with a little of your past for those who tend to get behind schedule). For the upcoming events You can either see today’s schedule as the block view or see the next three days in the agenda view. From either view, you can easily add a new event, modify the existing one, and gather resources for upcoming events so that you’ll be ready for that meeting in no time. You can also choose to receive notifications for events in your schedule so you won’t miss your important meetings.

Intelligent Suggestions for Automation

What’s special about CALO Stardust is that it learns the associations between your tasks, files, contacts and other relevant information automatically as you work on your computer. Using this knowledge, CALO Stardust will present related resources such as websites or files when you work on a particular task. It also suggests to take over some repetitive tasks it knows enough about to automate on its own. The more frequent and consistent your routine is, the more accurately CALO Stardust can automate the task for you. Once it’s done, you can check it over and make any changes if necessary to increase its autonomous for future use. Using CALO Stardust, you can cut down on the time you spend on filling out repetitive forms. How great is that?!

Access to Applications

Stardust that simply cannot be contained inside the sidebar. CALO Stardust sidebar is a great place for all the important features you need. But there’s much more to CALO Stardust has conveniently gathered all of its useful components at the bottom of the sidebar along with applications such as your email inbox, calendar and contacts you would access frequently. Read on to find out all the components accessible from the sidebar.

Task Viewer

Task viewer is there for you when you really need to examine all the tasks you have. It’s your one stop destination for sorting, filtering, starring, tagging, grouping and searching among your tasks. You can double-click on the task pane on the sidebar to open the Task Viewer.

CALO Learning Log

CALO Stardust keeps a log of its own actions as well as things you do on your computer for its learning purposes. Using the log, you can easily find out how CALO Stardust organizes your work resources. You can sort, filter, and search the log to easily locate specific information you are looking for. CALO Log is also the place to go when you want to spend some time training CALO Stardust to increase its performance and autonomy.

Preferences

CALO Stardust lets you customize your settings so you can use the system the way you want it. From here, you can set the default settings for things like calendar view, levels of intrusion for notifications, search options, and other options.

CALO Pack

CALO Pack is the closest thing you can have to a backpack on your desktop. When you ask CALO Stardust to collect materials for, say, a meeting, CALO Pack finds any relevant resources associated with that meeting and makes a folder with links to those resources. Then you can take the Pack to make a desktop folder, email it to people and take it to your meeting as your one stop place for all the documents you need.

Help

In case you encounter a situation in which you need an extra assistance while using the system, Stardust has a friendly help place to assist you find the right information.

Mini Sidebar

If you still can’t afford to lose any of your precious screen estate, CALO Stardust lets you tuck the sidebar into a compact column on the right side of your screen without losing any of its important utilities. CALO Stardust still lets you keep track of incoming mails, CALO actions and other important reminders with Growl-like notifications.