Windows Shareware 500 (First Edition)/disk3.img/REMINDER/README.TX$/readme.txt

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                WELCOME TO WINDOWS REMINDER!

 This disk contains Windows Reminder 1.3D

 Functional and Powerful

 Windows Reminder is a new time management program written exclusively for
 the new Windows.  The program is both simple to use, yet powerful enough to
 do your work for you without you having to be there!

 Functional

 Windows Reminder was designed to let you set up and view your appointments
 as easily as possible.  You can visually see the times you have scheduled
 in the graph display.  The graph also allows you to click on the time you
 want to enter a new item for.  Items or tasks are sorted by date and time
 which places all items needing attention at the top so you can "see" what
 is next on your list.  A time is not required so you can still enter a task
 that needs to be done that day.  Enter in a time and Windows Reminder will
 automatically set the alarm to display your message or run other programs.
 A repeat option is also provided for daily, weekly, monthly, and end of
 month events.  Windows Reminder displays the time and date when running as
 an icon so you can always keep track of what time it is.

 Set up "To Do" or "Task" lists for yourself and others to keep track of
 dates, times and milestones.

 Set alarms to remind you of items that have to be done or places you have
 to be.  You can set reminder to chime on the hour, 1/2 and 1/4 hour.  If
 you have Multimedia installed, you will hear the chimes from Control Panel.

 Set alarms to start other tasks without you being there.

 Generate status reports at any time based on the items you have done and
 that are still on your list of items that need to be done or need your
 attention.  Collect the time spent on each item for time management reports.

 Windows Reminder keeps track of when items are completed and creates a
 log file when you delete your items to a file (see the Options Preference
 menu) to set this.


 Versatile

 You can group your items by category for easy viewing and printing of
 status reports. The category list can be used to schedule what others in
 your group need to be on top of.  This helps with daily assignments and
 long term goals by allowing you to schedule different intervals in which
 to monitor your progress.  You can also assign your own personal priorities,
 like ASAP, by replacing the time field for each item.

 As you enter each item, they are sorted automatically by date and time or
 by your own personal priorities so that you can always see what is next on
 your list of items to do.  For easy viewing, dates are displayed in
 different colors depending if they are past, present or future items to do
 or if they are done so that you can instantly "see" what needs to be done next.

 Ease of use

 Windows Reminder makes it as simple as possible to enter and edit items by
 taking full advantage of a Control Bar with three dimensional buttons, full
 keyboard support, a Calendar program, Pen Windows support, and a sophisticated
 Online Help complete with "Jump Words" for easy access and look-up.


 The Windows Reminder Control bar gives you quick access to editing and
 viewing items along with a corresponding key on the keyboard to allow you
 the same access.  The current time is displayed on the right side of the
 control bar and an alarm picture is displayed only when there is a time set
 to go off for the current day.  This gives you the added benefit of adding
 items that have to be done a certain day, but have no set time.


 The Edit section of the Control bar allows you to quickly edit an item.
 To create a new item to be reminded of, you can choose the "+" button on the
 Control Bar, or the "+" key on the keyboard or the Edit Add menu item, or
 the F5 function key, or double click on the day you want in the Calendar
 program.

 The View section of the Control bar allows you to quickly view the items
 by past, present, future and done dates.  To view just those items you need
 to do from the past and today, you just select the left arrow (for past) and
 the down arrow (for now or today).  If you also want to view what you have
 done for the same time frame, just press the "check" button.  You can use
 the F9-F12 keys to "press" the same buttons or use the View menu commands.
 The asterisk at the end is for viewing everything at once by pressing all
 the buttons down.

 Windows Reminder comes with a Calendar program that lets you view the days
 in a month and scroll to other months and years.  If Windows Reminder isn't
 running, Calendar will start it for you by double-clicking on a date.  The
 Enter New Item dialog is automatically brought up for you with the selected
 date already placed in the date field for you.  Anytime the Edit Item dialog
 is up, you can use Calendar to enter or change the date and time just by
 clicking the mouse on the date you want and using the right mouse button
 to select the time.

 Powerful Date Transfer and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
 Windows Reminder data is copied to the clipboard as tab delimited text
 that can then be used with any editor and any spreadsheet program or
 other program that accepts a tab delimited ASCII file.  Windows Reminder
 will also accept data from the clipboard that is only space delimited for
 easy importing.

 Windows Reminder supports Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) as both a Client
 starting other DDE conversations requesting information and also as a
 Server so that data can be passed back and forth with other DDE programs.
 A sample Template file for Microsoft Word for Windows and macro sheet for
 Microsoft Excel is supplied to show you how you can automatically generate
 different reports with different combinations of monthly and/or items listed
 by a specific "category".

 Powerful Alarm actions

 Windows Reminder allows a number of different Actions to take place when
 an alarm goes off.  You select the action to take place when you enter
 your message and it can be changed at any time.  The Run Action will
 automatically have Reminder start another Windows or DOS application.
 Run DDE will start a DDE conversation with another application to run a
 macro that gathers information from a data base or electronic news service
 that places the information into another application.

 When an alarm goes off, your message is displayed for you.  You are then
 given 4 choices of what you want to do with the message.  The first is
 nothing so that you can decide what you want to do with it later.  You
 can select the Mark as Done check box to indicate you no longer need to
 be reminded of the message.  If you are busy when the message is displayed
 you can set the Repeat in ? minutes, a "snooze" option and press the Reset
 Time button so the message will be displayed again in the extra time you
 selected.  This is really handy when you are on the phone.  Selecting the
 Re-schedule button brings up the message for editing so you can change
 the date, time or any other information.
 You can reset the item to the next day, week, month or year and it will
 also bump the day to Mondya if you use the "Business Day option.


 When the Run with Prompt or Run DDE with Prompt action item is selected
 or you select the Option Run menu command, the Run dialog will be displayed.
 Here you will see the message you had scheduled if it was from an alarm
 going off, or you can change or enter any command to start up another
 application or enter in a DDE command.  You don't have to run Program Manager
 or File Manager to start another application.



            *** LATE-BREAKING NEWS ***

  NEW features for 1.3D

      Better support for internationalization for reports.
      Reminder will use the month in WIN.INI [reminder] 1=january
      Report date will also format correctly.


  Please refer to the CHANGES.TXT file for other recent updates.




  NOTE:  To use the Visual Basic DDE demo program, you need either Visual
         Basic installed on your system, or at least the VBRUN100.DLL
         file.  THe VBRUN100.DLL file may be obtained from any number
         of BBS's, shareware disk vendors, Compuserve, or even our BBS.
         Because of its size, it is not included with this product.



                       PACKING LIST:

 With this version you have the following files:

  REMINDER EXE  The Reminder program.
  CAL      EXE  The integrated calendar program.
  ITEMS    CAT  The "category" data base file - Press F4 to add more.
  ITEMS    DAT  Tutorial data file.
  RM__VER  ???  A file whose extension is the current version number.

  README   TXT  This File
  README2  TXT  ...Readme continued

  CHANGES  TXT  The detailed list of changes to the product.

  REMINDER HLP  The Reminder Help file - press F1 to display it.

  REMINDER DOT  A WinWord template file that has a few sample DDE
                samples and reports to use with Reminder.
  REMINDER XLM  A Microsoft Excel macro file that has a few sample DDE
                samples to use with Reminder.

  RMDDE    EXE  A Visual Basic DDE Demo with Reminder
  RMDDE    FRM  A Visual Basic form to do DDE with Reminder

  WWWDBMS  DLL  The data base engine
  WWWDEALR DLL  Yet another DLL

  WSETUP   EXE  The setup program
  WBINXZ   EXE  More of the setup program
  WSETUP   INF  The setup script file




 Please refer to the README2.TXT file for more information.