Shel, Have you ever just considered using a handheld organizer like a Palm or some such. They are designed to be a bit easier to use than the MS stuff. It comes with desktop software that works just like your handheld and syncs back and forth. One problem with a desktop only solution is that when you are away from your pc you can't check and update your schedule - so you go to the doctor's office, need to make an appointment - can't check the schedule.
I think that is why there is not much available. Either you use something like Outlook to synchronize an entire office or you use something like a Palm to handle your own use. Me, I have used Palms all along and they work great. I am considering something like Godfrey has - the Treo phone - gives you one device for phone and organizer with synching to the desktop. The handheld approach is truly worth investigating. HTH, Bruce Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 9:49:22 AM, you wrote: g> I was using one of those cheapy organizers, you know #9.95 for the CD at g> the business supply store, and liked it quite well. Then I got a g> cel-phone with an organizer built in so I change over to Lotus Notes for g> the very good reasons that the Lotus Office package came with my laptop g> and the new cel-phones software package would sync with it. My current g> phone does not have an organizer but I continued to use Lotus even g> though it is overly complicated because I had a lot in it. Now I have a g> pocket pc and it won't sync with Lotus Organizer so I switched to MS g> Outlook which it will and tried to import the Organizer files. Won't do g> it even thought it has a specific option to import Lotus Organizer 5.0 g> files. So I hand copied the current stuff over <SIGH!>. The whole g> business is an annoying waste of money and time if you ask me. g> Financial software is another similar annoyance. I have been using a g> very old version of MS Money for years because it was cheap, simple, and g> met my needs perfectly. Someone had given me a copy of Money 2003 but I g> found it complicated and had all kinds of stuff in it I had no use for g> so it set on the shelf in my bookcase. Then with the pocket pc I could g> not sync the old version with pocket money which was a free download g> from MS. So I upgraded to the 2003 version, still no go. So I did some g> web research and found out that MS Money 2004 was the only version of g> Money that would sync with the version of Pocket Money that will run on g> Windows PPC 2003 which is the OS version on the Toshiba pocket pc which g> can not be upgraded to a newer one. So I had to find an outdated version g> of software that is no longer available retail to have the functionality g> I wanted. In the end I downloaded a copy from one of the pirate sites g> and had no qualms about it whatsoever. However I can say that MSM2004 g> had no problem importing my MSM95 files, thank god! g> So, I wish you luck in your search, Shel. I have a feeling you are going g> to need it. BTW if you have MS Office Professional it probably has MS g> Outlook included. g> graywolf g> http://www.graywolfphoto.com g> http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf g> "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" g> ----------------------------------- g> Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> Another appointment calendar for my Win XP machine would be helpful. I >> like the one I have, which is very small and very fast except that I have >> to enter each appointment manually. Sometimes I'll have a schedule that >> will require one or two visits a day to a client over a period lasting as >> long as three weeks or a month. It gets tedious entering each scheduled >> appointment so many times. >> >> Any recommendations for an appointment book/calendar that will be easier to >> use - something that will permit the entry of a start date and a finish >> date, and which will then complete the schedule? Or some variation on that. >> >> I need - and prefer not to have - bells and whistles like reminder chimes, >> pop-ups, panting puppy dogs with wagging tails, etc. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> >> Shel >> >> >> >>
