You make a lot of good points. Thanks for the in put. I'm going to wait for the I Pad with 3 G to hit the stores in April. The video at the Apple website looks like I'll like this thing best. I'm also considering the I Touch.
Thanks again, you are very helpful. Katherine ________________________________ From: KeyzKaren <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 4, 2010 8:08:23 PM Subject: RE: NailTech:: appiontment scheduling From:[email protected] [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Katherine I am wondering what everyone is using to schedule appointments. I use a Palm, an old one, just a PDA and it's on it's last leg. What do you all use? Computer? Paper book? I Phone? I Pad? Palm Pre? What is out there? What are my options? Katherine St.Louis, MO A few years ago I dragged myself kicking and screaming into the new millennium…and went from paper scheduling using a day runner to using agendus on my palm treo. It was really wonderful…I went from lugging around a hefty book and having to do a lot of erasing [yeah, yeah…that ‘eraser app’ is not so nifty when one of my standings changed her days] to carrying one tiny little device that was my phone, my book, my address/contact list, etc. Just recently have had to give up the treo…out of memory and it’s pretty beat up and getting lots of people telling me that they can’t hear me. Have been doing my research and what I really wanted was a new palm…but can’t spend the hundreds just now, and maneuvered a way to get a sexy new blackberry bold 9700 for a penny. It is really pretty nice….except it, like most calendar programs, do not allow you to ‘change future occurrences only’ as a choice when you’re changing a client’s standing appts. I ordered the agendus program…only to find, like Rhonda, that it does not work the same fabulous way on the bb platform as it does on palm. Thankfully patiSchembari has given me a work-around solution, so I am once again, quite happy to have all my scheduling, phone numbers, emails, facebook, etc. all on one tiny device. It’s not as wonderful as the palm…but it’ll do. I am able to sync it with outlook on my laptop, and I do that often…in fact, once in a while you need to clean things up and it’s much easier to do it on the full keyboard than the phone. Some features that I feel are really helpful if you want to work in this medium; =Being able to answer the phone, put them on speaker and easily open up your calendar to see what’s available makes life easier. Less call backs…just get it booked now and done. =An easy way to back up your data is important. =A system that integrates your contact list with your calendar is good….not all systems allow this. For example, I can go to a certain day, click on a certain appointment and click to open a menu that lets me text, call or email that person. =The ability to define categories of appointments is helpful…I use different categories to take care of my clients, my medical appointments, personal appointments, etc. Some systems don’t allow this, or they make you have more than one calendar…which gets confusing. Hope these ideas help you as you decide….good luck ;-] Karen Key west -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en.
