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>In article <1992Aug18.143413.29968@wixer.cactus.org>, purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer) wrote:
>> However, I feel obliged to tell you that MacUser panned DayMaker as "the
>> interface you'll love to hate." [paraphrased by yours truly from their
>> review] Apparently it's not so hot for day to day use. I've also been
>> looking at DateBook (I think this is the one I'll buy; it's VERY
>> comparable in features to DayMaker) and First Things First, which sounds
>> comparable to In Control.

Be careful about DateBook.  I just returned it (to MacZone) after
using it for under an hour.  I got it mainly because I wanted to print
datebook pages, and I was severely dissappointed.  It can display in
several handy formats, but printing is brain-damaged.  It can't print
one month across two pages; instead the best you can get is one month
sideways on each page.  It insists that it can print three pages worth
of DayRunner filler on one 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, even though it
comes out way too narrow.  It can't print any view other than "list"
in weekly fillers (see below).  The advertized "network" features
aren't there: you get a little note in the box telling you that it
will be sent to you for free as soon as it's ready.

I took a quick look at DayMaker, at it seems to have the following
well-developed features:

Handles schedules
Handles addresses
Keeps track of contacts
Views are highly customizable

The big missing feature in my eyes is that it only has one graphical
view of schedules:  Gantt charts.  You can't seem to set it up to
display and print schedules in the same format as a normal DayRunner:

8:00  _________
9:00  _________
10:00 Coffee___
11:00 Donuts___
12:00 Lunch____
1:00  _________
2:00  _________
3:00  Meeting__
..etc.

Instead, you get either a compressed list format:

10:00 Coffee
11:00 Donuts
12:00 Lunch
3:00  Meeting

or the Gantt chart, which I won't attempt using ASCII.

In article <sholden-180892134606@intrepid.nosc.mil> sholden@cod.nosc.mil (Steve Holden) writes:
>DayMaker does have some annoyances though ... especially with
>printing (to those day planners) and exporting information.

So far, the best I've found for printing is Now-Up-to-Date, with the
caveat that it doesn't handle double-sided printing very gracefully at
all--the manual just tells you to tape pages back to back if you want
double sided stuff.  The printout is much better than DateBook, and I
think better than DayMaker as well.  Also, the Now-Up-to-Date
networking features are really handy for dividing your calendar up
into groups and categories, even if aren't really networking with
anyone else at all.

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