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- Chronographer -- A daily planner application
-
- Dwight Everhart
- everhart@alterlife.com
- September 28, 1996
-
-
- UPDATE
- ======
-
- This is version 0.80 of Chronographer. It adds appointment reminders.
-
- Features added:
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- o The expire date has been extended to December 1.
-
- o Appointment reminders have been added. You can set a reminder through
- an appointment's inspector panel. There are three types of reminders:
- panel, email, and sound.
-
- The new features are described in more detail in Chronographer's release
- notes. Choose the Info-->Release Notes command to see them. You can also
- easily read the documentation for the new features through the release
- notes by following the links after each item.
-
- I'm sorry this version was released at the last minute. The next version
- should be released well before this one expires.
-
-
- AVAILABILITY
- ============
-
- Chronographer is being distributed in one, quad-fat package:
-
- name: Chronographer.0.80.NIHS.b.tar.gz
- h/w: NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, SPARC
- size: 1794921
- md5: f882c525cdae08f89212fe30aba3851d
- sum32: 451585569
- sum: 28950 1753
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-
- Chronographer has been submitted to PEAK:
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- ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/Chronographer.0.80.NIHS.b.tar.gz
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- It may eventually move to:
-
- ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/productivity/
-
-
- Chronographer has also been submitted to Peanuts:
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- ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.80.NIHS.b.tar.gz
-
-
- The release is binary-only and includes software for NeXT, Intel, HP-PA,
- and SPARC hardware. It will run on NEXTSTEP versions 3.2 and later. It
- might also run on 3.0 and 3.1, but it has not been tested with those
- versions. If you find that it does run on either of those versions,
- please let me know.
-
- This is the eleventh release of Chronographer. It is a beta release.
- Version 1.00 will be commercial and will likely be released in December,
- but this beta release is free and is fully functional, except that it will
- stop running on December 1. By that time, a newer beta version will be
- available. The commercial version will cost US$40 per user.
-
-
- DESCRIPTION
- ===========
-
- Chronographer is an application designed to help you to organize not only
- your time but also your priorities in life.
-
- Instead of just keeping track of appointments, Chronographer also keeps
- track of the goals that these appointments further, so you can easily
- determine if what you are doing today is helping you to accomplish what
- you want to do this week, this month, this year, and this decade. Instead
- of just asking yourself, "What needs to be done and when do I need to do
- it?", Chronographer encourages you to first ask, "What do I want to
- accomplish in life?" and then ask, "What do I need to do in order to
- achieve these goals?" Chronographer focuses on the long term as well as
- the short term.
-
- Chronographer's time-management concepts are based, in part, on principles
- developed by Stephen R. Covey and presented in his books _First Things
- First_ and _The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People_. Chronographer
- helps you to organize your life by establishing a hierarchy of roles and
- goals. Out of these roles and goals appointments are scheduled.
- Chronographer allows you to set a time budget for each role or goal, and
- it provides you with instant summaries of how much time you've actually
- spent on each item. It also provides a detailed report of how you've
- spent your time.
-
-
- FEATURES
- ========
-
- o A browser to organize your activities by grouping them into roles and
- goals.
-
- o Schedules for keeping track of appointments. Each day has its own
- schedule window. Appointments are displayed in colored boxes.
- Appointments can repeat every day, week, month, or year.
- Schedule detail can be set to one line for every 60, 30, 15, or 5 minutes.
-
- o To-do lists for keeping track of appointments that don't have specific
- times associated with them. Each day has its own to-do list.
-
- o Appointment reminders using either a panel, email, or sound.
-
- o A time report that lists, in detail, how you spent your time. This
- could be a useful tool for consultants who need to keep track of how much
- time they spend on each of their projects. It could also be useful for
- employees who have to report their time usage to their managers.
-
- o Easy drag-and-drop interface. Once you type in an appointment's title,
- you never have to type it in again. Just drag the appointment to a
- schedule or to-do list to schedule it. Appointment durations can be
- changed by dragging the edges of the appointment. Appointments can be
- moved easily by dragging them to another location on the schedule or to
- another day's schedule or to a to-do list.
-
-
- FUTURE FEATURES
- ===============
-
- This version of Chronographer is a pre-release beta. The following
- feature is not yet implemented:
-
- o Week- or month-at-a-time views
-