You can drag a name from your Telephone List to your ToDo List to quickly schedule a ToDo Item.
Quickly locate a name in your telephone list by keying the first few characters anywhere on the main screen.
Clicking the column header COMPANY at the top of your telephone list will quickly sort your contacts alphabetically by Company.
You can reschedule or copy an appointment to a new date by dragging it to a new date on the monthly calendar on the main screen.
You can COPY an appointment or ToDo by dragging it to another date on the monthly calendar on the main screen.
Time && Chaos can launch your web browser and automatically direct it to an Internet site by defining a Telephone Number Label as URL:
Time && Chaos is fully networkable. If you have a LAN you can easily share information with others, schedule group meetings or create a common telephone book.
The Print Preview Screen allows you to print your telephone books and calendars directly onto DayTimer paper sizes by selecting a special paper FORMAT.
You can download National && Religious Holidays, Sports Schedules and more from our web site free of charge. We call them transportable records.
Telephone Book OVERLAYS are used to quickly group your contacts. eg. Customers, Vendors, Friends etc. This allows you to have many different "telephone books"
Your ToDo Items that do not get done today will AUTOMATICALLY rollover to the next day.
If you are adding a new contact to your telephone book, you can quickly copy the address from another record by clicking the down arrow of the company field.
Time && Chaos can launch your e-mail software and automatically address it for you by defining a Telephone Number Label as SMTP: or mailto:
If you can't get ALL of your ToDo's done today try dragging them to a future date. This may help keep your ToDo list from becoming a Wish List.
Don't delete your completed ToDo items, instead Mark them DONE. This will keep a permenant record of your accomplishments that can later be reported on.
If you wish to print multiple envelopes the telephone list on the main screen supports MULTISELECT. You can Highlight more than one name at a time by holding down the CONTROL KEY in combination with a left mouse click. Then select Print Envelope(s) as usual.
If an OVERLAY description contains the name of a color, eg. Yellow Pages or Prospects Green then the background color of the telephone book will change to the specified color when displayed. This makes it quickly obvious that you are viewing a special group of names. Green, Blue, Cyan, Black, Red, Magenta, Yellow are all supported.
If you would like a certain date on the main screen monthly calendar to be a color other than RED then set the Item(s) Color of the first appointment of that day.
You can drag document files directly from Windows Explorer to the Attached Files Window of a Telphone record. This allows you to keep associations of key documents and spreadsheets pertaining to a contact.
Go To Date (Ctrl-G) on the Calendar Menu allows you to quickly jump path to any date you specify.
Go To Date (Ctrl-G) on the Calendar Menu allows you to jump forward or backward a specified number of days from the currently selected date. eg. +100 or -75
Within a telephone record, if you set a Connection Type to "mailto:" it will allow you to send e-mail directly from Internet Explorer Mail & Netscape Mail.
Telephone Book Custom Field Labels containing # symbol will be treated internally as a true numeric field. This ensures that Sorting will be done Numerically rather than Alphabetically. eg. Customer #, or Employee #
Telephone Book Custom Field Labels containing the word DATE will be treated internally as a true date field. This ensures that Sorting will be done Chronologically rather than Alphabetically. eg. Birthdate, Date of Hire
The default Telephone Number Labels of Business, Home, Car, Fax, Pager, SMTP and URL can be changed to new defaults of your choice. Just enter the new labels on any telephone record in the connection type fields. Pressing the F7 key will save these for all new telephone records.
If you would like to be notified of appointment alarms that you missed since the last time you used Time && Chaos, Go to File Menu, Select Preferences, goto the Miscellaneous TAB and select the Alarm Mode for BOTH CURRENT and PAST ALARMS.
If you would like to synchronize your Time && Chaos data with the US Robotics Palm Pilot we have an optional Plug-in on our Web Site that is too cool!
You can autodial telephone numbers, send e-mail, faxes and launch to web sites on the internet by clicking with your mouse on the appropriate buttons to the right of your telephone list on the main screen.
If you want to quickly copy a telephone number to the windows clipboard, single click on the telephone number to the right of your Telephone List on the main screen.
If you would like to customize this Tip of the Day you can edit the text file named TipOfDay.txt using NotePad with 1 tip per line.
The Search && Report module allows you to find virtually any word that you have ever typed into Time && Chaos quickly by just typing the search word into the search value field and clicking the FIND NOW button.
You can resize any of the 4 main screen sections by positioning your mouse between the sections. Your mousepointer will change to a double arrow when you are in the right spot. Hold down your mouse button and drag to resize.
You can resize or even eliminate any of the individual columns on the main screen. These can be saved for startup by selecting the Save Startup Settings under the FILE menu.
When entering several new telephone entries, try using the F8 key as a shortcut rather than the OK button. This saves the current record and brings up the next data entry screen. F8 works the same for appointments and ToDo item entry as well.
From the Search && Report Module you can CREATE Transportable Records. Transportable records can be sent to other Time && Chaos32 users anywhere in the world and merged in with their data. Appointment Times and Dates are automatically converted to their local time.
If you would like to start Time && Chaos in a minimized state, append a /m to the command line property of the Windows Shortcut.
The File Menu contains a list of the 4 most recently used Time & Chaos Data Folders. You can click select any of the 4 to directly return to that Data Folder Information.
On our internet web site you can now sign up on an electronic mailing list to automatically receive e-mail notifications when we issue product releases and updates.
That we thrive on YOUR suggestions and feedback. We welcome comments/suggestions and ideas via e-mail, fax and phone. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you!
Each Printout in Time && Chaos supports many options that you can customize. All of these options are available on the panel at the left of the Print Preview Screen. Try changing a few to experiment and click the APPLY button. If you like your results click the SAVE button.
You can customize the toolbars on the main screen by double clicking with your mouse on the toolbar background.
If you would like to create MAILING LABELS, just right-click on any name in your main screen telephone book, select Print|Mailing Labels. We support MOST of the popular label formats! It doesn't get easier than this!!!!
The Search && Report Module makes it easy to update or change groups of records at one time. It supports both Global Changes AND very selective Find and Replaces. It sure beats modifing individual records!
