(To install, just drag First Things First onto the icon [not an open window] of your System Folder and reboot. If you have a folder called "FTF Clocks", put it in your System Folder also. See Feature Set & Command Summary Below)
••• When it comes to getting "real work" done, you need a lightning fast ToDo List Manager with reminders that helps you stay focused on the priorities at hand. First Things First does just that. FTF not only lets you see in a split second what is urgent, but it also lets you review what is important! It is a Priority Management/Reminder tool that you will use whenever you are at your Mac -- which is why it was voted "Mac Utility of the Year" by the MUG News Svc.
First Things First 3.0 now has 18 more clock faces to choose from! Using the revolutionary "Floating Clock" technology, you will be able to personalize your desk top as never before! These artfully designed clocks look great in black and white, or color. Simply because no other utility offers this, FTF is well worth its $79.95 list price if this was all it offered. When you combine the Floating Clock Technology with FTF's unsurpassed abilities to manage hectic schedules, you've got a utility you can't afford to pass up. (Please note: If you did not get the FTF Clocks folder with this demo, it is probably available from the same source you got the demo from--on line services, etc., and is free of charge.)
If you like the attached demo, we can give you a serial number to upgrade it immediately by phone (503-246-6200) for the “environmentally friendly” price of only $39.95 (that’s $40.00 of the list price!!) which instantly gives you a full-featured version. Or, you can order the regular full package (that has the FTF Clocks, File Utility, and program) with the box and manual for an introductory $30.00 off the $79.95 list price--for a total of $49.95).
All it takes is a unique serial number which we can deliver by phone to get you fully operational. No manual is needed beyond the summary below, because FTF has NO LEARNING CURVE!
If, after using the Demo you agree that you don't need a manual for FTF, then we encourage you to go "packaging-free" and help to reduce the drain on our environment. With this "packaging-free" purchase you become a registered Visionary customer with all the benefits of special upgrade offers and new product sneak-previews.
The FTF File Utility™ comes with the full package -- for $49.95 we'll give you a serial number over the phone and send your master disk containing the most recent version of FTF and the FTF File Utility, and the manual. You will only need the FTF File Utility if you want to do one of the following:
1) You use a Powerbook and want to merge things from one FTF file into another -- for example if you have a company agenda file which people can put items into and then get items out of; or if you have a portable and a desk machine and want to easily move items between their agenda files.
2) Export or Import items to/from text-only files -- this can be useful for making an archive of your completed items so you can purge them from FTF to keep your memory usage down, or to write up a report in a word processor.
Most people will probably not need the FTF File Utility, but for those of you who do, you can get it without the packaging, or with the full package as described above. ***Please note: The FTF file utility is probably available from the same place you got the demo from (i.e., on-line services) free of charge***
The syndicated MUG News Service picked First Things First as the Mac “Utility of the Year!”
Using a revolutionary technology called a Floating Icon, FTF is fast and convenient. Try this demo. Even before you order the real thing, you’ll derive value from a Floating Clock that stays on top of any application or window or menubar -- wherever you choose to put it.
Easily keeping track of projects and events is central to effective time-management. Most other time-management programs are slow, intrusive, and difficult to navigate. Not FTF! This unique utility promises to be Lightning Fast and Instantly Available with NO LEARNING CURVE! FTF promises immediate time-saving results with the very first use.
First Things First™ helps you keep abreast of a busy schedule with the ultimate ease. The Floating Clock-Icon™ and information-rich views make it by far the fastest and easiest personal projects and reminder utility. Use the built-in Hot Key for the ultimate in streamlined efficiency -- you never have to use a mouse!
It’s never been easier to instantly schedule tasks, appointments and reminders – to more easily manage a very busy schedule. At $79.95, this useful tool is under priced. Check it out for yourself. You’ll wonder how you ever managed without it!
Try some of the shortcuts listed below and you will become addicted to the fastest priority manager available on any platform.
••••• First Things First™ Feature Set & Command Summary
FTF is always at your fingertips and easy to use – just click on the Floating Icon™ or use the Hot Key of your choice (default is Shift-Cmd-F).
To fully exercise FTF, browse through the following list of features, hints, tips and shortcuts (they're simple and logical):
••• Clock in reduced form (digital, menubar height so it fits in menubar):
- Option-click brings up today’s #1 priority items for viewing;
- Single click toggles date/time;
- Shift-click zooms clock into expanded form (using last type of expanded display you set, analog or digital).
- Click-drag changes position (NOTE: any overlap with menubar will snap to full menubar overlap unless you are holding the shift key down when you release the mouse);
- Double-Click or your designated HotKey opens main editing window;
••• Clock in expanded form (digital or analog):
- Option-click brings up today’s #1 priority items for viewing;
- Shift-click zooms clock to back to its last reduced location;
- Click-drag changes position (NOTE: Exception: if the position of the clock when you release the mouse button has any overlap with the menubar and you are NOT holding down the shift key, the clock will be reduced and the reduced position will become the horizontal point of drag but snapped into the menubar);
- Double-click or HotKey (Shift-Cmd-F) opens main editing window.
••• Main Editing Window:
- Option-click on the small digital clock in the upper right corner brings up today’s #1 priority items for viewing;
- Cmd-N (when New Item button is enabled) is same as clicking on the New Item button;
- Clicking on clock and date icon (lower right) brings up Settings dialog;
- Cmd-1 to Cmd-4 activates the priority menu settings 1 through 4 respectively.
- Cmd-F selects the Find button;
- Cmd-A selects all items;
- Clicking on the balloon icon (lower left) brings up About… dialog;
- Cmd-S saves changes to the reminders list, same as Save button but leaves dialog open;
- Return/Enter equals Save button;
- Escape key equals Cancel button;
- Double-clicking on a list item is equivalent to clicking once to select and item and then clicking on the Edit button;
- Cmd-P for print...;
- Cmd-C copies the selected item;
- Cmd-V pastes the clipboard to an item IF you are not currently in the All Categories view (we can't here because which category to put it in is ambiguous and everything MUST be in a category). It always adds the item to the currently viewed category with following behavior for different clipboard contents:
a) Just text in clipboard:
- will create a new item containing the text and with no time specified.
b) An item in clipboard (really in a private clipboard, only the text is exported to global clipboard):
- will add the item to the current category, leaving it marked
done if it was previously marked done.
c) picture etc...
-will tell you that there is nothing to paste.
- Cmd-X cuts (copy and delete) an item;
- Delete key deletes and item (same as Remove button);
- Option-Delete deletes item without warning dialog;
- Option-Remove button also deletes item without warning dialog.
>> Note that the Remove button becomes Completed when any of the items selected are scheduled to be saved when marked done as indicated by the Save Completed Items setting in the Settings/Preferences dialog box.
- Holding the option key down changes the Save button to Save As..., clicking the button opens a Save as dialog which prompts you to save the file to disk and allows you to change the name; this is handy for making backups, which we encourage you to do.
When Save Done Items is enabled then you can hold the Cmd key down to change the Completed button to a Remove button (so selectively not save a particular item). You can also hold down the option key to avoid delete dialog (i.e., Option-Cmd + click on button changes it to Remove and avoids warning dialog for delete). You can also set FTF to Skip Delete Warnings in the Settings dialog.
••• Edit item dialog (dbl-clicking on an item, Cmd-N etc.):
- Return/Enter maps to the OK button;
- Escape maps to the Cancel button;
- Tab cycles through the fields of the dialog in a forward direction.
- Shift-Tab cycles through the fields of the dialog in a backwards direction.
- up/down arrow on the keyboard controls the arrows for setting the time.
- Typing number keys (0-9) will enter that number into a date or time field if one is selected.
- Typing A or P will set the AM/PM field if it is currently selected.
- Cmd-1 to Cmd-4 activates the priority settings 1 through 4 respectively.
••• Save Changes dialog (comes up when you hit cancel and have made changes):
- Return/Enter and Cmd-Y map to the Yes button;
- Escape and Cmd-C map to the Cancel button;
- Cmd-N maps to the No button.
••• In most other alerts/dialogs
- Return/Enter keys map to OK or default button;
- Escape maps to Cancel button ( not all dialogs, but most ).
••• Holding down the Shift key during boot-up aborts load of
