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For shareware, Remember? ($20) is about the best I have seen although
it doesn't produce "DayTimer" type printouts.

About the best I have seen is Now Up-to-Date from Now Software.  I think
I paid $49 for the single user version.  You can have calendars across
Macs and share public calendars.  It produces a variety of schedules
which are pretty good but not perfect.  (I feel that the numbers used
for the time of day are too small and there is no way to change them.)
It only allows one "Private" calendar.  I would like to have separate ones
for appointments, holidays and birthdays althought this can be solved by
bringing up a "server" and creating "public" calendars.  It would be nice
if they supplied a Holiday calendar file, but I created my own.

I also have used DayMaker and MyTimeManger.  Here are my comments on those:

DayMaker:

I got Daymaker and I was very disappointed.  However, I was looking for
primarily an appointment manager.  In particular, I found the following
deficiencies:

1. Lack of recurring meetings.  This is by far the biggest problem for
me.  Pastel claims that they are coming out with a update to correct this
in first quarter 1992.

2. Lack of appointment bnook style output.  e.g.
    9:00a Meeting with Boss
    9:30      |
   10:00      |
   10:30      V
   11:00  Interview for new job
   11:30
     .
     .
     .
   I was hoping that the Gantt charts would do the trick, but they don't
for me.  They take too much space at the right of the description.  You
can vary the field width, but it still is hard to use.

3. Lack of warning of overlapping meetings.  Gantt charts help, but would
like more.

4. The scrool bar is present in the event window even if it is not needed.
Wastes valuable space.

5. The printouts do not have a title.  I would like my name and the
current date/time on them so I could sort out multiple printouts.

6. There is no way to span weeks or months.  For example, I might want
to look at my scheulde for the next 4 weeks when it is in the middle
of the month.


MyTimeManager:

Problems:

1. Can't set reminders for recurring events
2. Can't set variable reminders (5 minutes for office meetings,
   15 for away)
3. Get unexpected quits when printing monthly schedule
4. 2 month schedule does not contain any events
5. Get warning: "CYCLICAL entries have overlapping times" when setting
   up a recurring meeting.
6. Unable to setup meeting for 1st Tuesday of each month
7. Manual is poor:
   a. Categories are not explained - either what they stand for or how
      they are used.
   b. Unclear the difference between the Reminder? box and button


minor:
1. Daily schedule printout does not show available times
2. Holidays have to be edited in with ResEdit
3. It would be helpful if it was an Init as well as an application

Pros:
1. Allows scheduling of meetings for a group
2. Detects conflicts