Daymaker 2.0

[David R. Braddon-Mitchell]

Has anyone had success in gettin an International version of
Daymakler 2.0 ? I'm keen to upgrade from vers 1.1 but
neither Pastel nor the distributer seem to have their act together.

Alternately, does anyone have suggestions for alternate calendar/PIM
programs? Daymaker's great strenth is its tagging system which
gives it full database power, while viewing all this data
in the full range of calendar formats as a as a calendar fprogram would.

Now Up to Datw seems to have a nice interface, but
(1) doesnt have full tagging
(2) you can't edit all entries in all views. Is this right?

thanks .

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David Braddon-Mitchell
Division of Philosophy and Law
Research School of Social Sciences
Australian National University

[Martin Hill]

In article <dbm.727491925@vulcan> David R. Braddon-Mitchell,
d...@vulcan.anu.edu.au writes:

>Has anyone had success in gettin an International version of
>Daymakler 2.0 ? I'm keen to upgrade from vers 1.1 but
>neither Pastel nor the distributer seem to have their act together.

I'm still trying to get an update to 2.0 as well. Infomagic reckon
they'll have updates available within a week or so. You don't know of
any other distributers do you?

I find the present version taking 45 seconds to save and 30 seconds to
open on a PowerBook 180 (and about the same on a IIfx). This is
absolutely ridiculous for a quick enter and leave application like a PIM.
As I've put more info in over the year since I started using it, it has
become slower and slower. I dread to think how long it'd take on a less
powerful Mac.
Apart from the new features, (modular architecture, recurring events,
multi-user, address book, etc), I'm hoping Pastel has improved the basic
architecture to save RAM taken up, but most importantly speed....

>programs? Daymaker's great strenth is its tagging system which
>gives it full database power, while viewing all this data
>in the full range of calendar formats as a as a calendar fprogram would.

I agree. This is why I've stuck with it so long. I've tried Now Up To
Date, JAM Smart Alarms, Danny Goodman's Connections, Alarming Events,
Day-by-Day, Right on Time, C.A.T. and a few others and none seem to
provide the facilities of DayMaker that I use all the time.

>Now Up to Datw seems to have a nice interface, but
>(1) doesnt have full tagging

You're right, it doesn't.

>(2) you can't edit all entries in all views. Is this right?

From my experience, yes, you can edit in the month view as well as the
day view. It's main disadvantages are a lack of general free form data
with tags ala DayMakel, no ToDo lists .

If Pastel, do get v.2.0 out soon with the speed problem fixed, it'll be
the best PIM on the market IMHO!

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