Hi all,Completely agree.
Besides the obvious problems with Entourage, after having used it for some time I've compiled a list of what I see as some gaps in the application that hopefully can be addressed in the next version.
<snip>
1) Problem: There is no easy way to jump quickly to any given date. If you want to see January of last year in month view, or January 3rd in day view, you have to scroll through every month in the mini-calendar – which can be a slow process if you have a full calendar, waiting for each screen to update.
Fix: There should be a "go to" command, which allows you to select a year and month without having to scroll.
You must have a bigger address book than I do, because I don’t have this problem.
2) Problem: We all know that searching for a name is way too slow. It's probably a major database handling issue, but all I know as a user is that with the Palm Desktop, I could bring up a name instantly. Entourage takes ages.
Fix: beyond my scope, but must be possible... Palm Desktop did it.
Well, now that I have Paul and Allen’s “find contact” scripts, I’m happy. Don’t use the search from within the contact list any more. I agree that when I did it was irritating if I’d switched to Company and forgot to reset to name.
3) Problem: When you open the contact list, you can do a quick search/sort by "Name contains" or "Company contains". Many times I've typed in a Name then realized that I had it set to Company, had to wait for it to finish sorting, then reset it to Name.
Fix: Fourth (first!) search criteria; "Name or Company contains"
4) Problem: There is no auto link feature – you shouldn't have to search for a name when making appointments or notes as you currently do. The Palm Desktop had a fantastic "auto link" feature. Hit Command-L, and instantly the software would scan your appointment and bring up any contacts with matching key words. Very fast, very convenient. "Dinner with Bob at Chez Snooty" would instantly give you the option to link to Bob's *and* Chez Snooty's contact listing. Trés cool ;-)I have to disagree slightly here. When using Palm desktop I was more often irritated by its automatic linking suggestions than happy to have them. So if automatic linking was implemented in E’rage, I’d hope that it would be optional.
Fix: Implement Auto-Link feature
I find the multi day event handling (or non-handling) in sync’ing to the Palm easily the most irritating problem with E’rage. There’s no work around (at least not that I’ve found, and I’ve searched the archives for this list as well as MacTopia, and thought about it a lot with no results), either you have to have the E’rage calendar look wrong or have multi day events not show at all on the Palm.
5) & 6) deal with using alarms for tasks, which I don’t do.
OK, that's my list. I'm sure many of you have more, but I like what I've come up with ;-)
--
Jan Martel in Davis, CA
Pismo PB, OS 9.1
