Excellent news, Jonathan and I look forward to that. However, one thing I wished had been included, and that I myself consider a significant flaw in the planner, is the inability to re-insert form feeds and so repair the planner if it becomes corrupted without having to go through the tedious process of saving the data to a new file, opening in Keyword, repairing the damage if possible, then erasing the planner file and inserting the new word process file into an empty planner file. I have had this problem several times on long planner files, and often have had to insert blocks for each date manually the above technique does not work. Why can 'space P' (BN hotkey) not be used to insert a form feed as in KeyWord? I know this has been requested by others too. Still, I look forward to the new software with eagerness.
--- TheJazzDen - the best UK, US and around-the-world jazz - www.thejazzden.org.uk now with broadband and modem streams! --- Broadband: put http://listen.thejazzden.org.uk:10025 into your player. --- Dial-up: put http://listen.thejazzden.org.uk:10023 into your player. --- Essentially Natural - Our own hand-made soaps and cosmetics using natural ingredients now accepting credit cards online: http://www.e-nat.co.uk. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:56 AM Subject: [Braillenote] KeySoft 5.1 Preliminary Info > Hi all. We're at the point now where I am able to reveal some more > information about the next version of KeySoft, which we hope to release in > the first quarter of this year. KeySoft 5.1 will be a free upgrade for all > version 5 customers. If you have a software maintenance agreement, it will > not decrement your SMA count. > > Late last year, I asked participants on our BrailleNote discussion list > what they would like to see in KeyPlan, our Planner application. Version > 5.1 of KeySoft is largely devoted to implementing most of our customers' > vision of the ideal planner application, with a completely rewritten > planner package. > > KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 will use database technology. The first benefit of > this is that the boundaries between years no longer exist. If you wish to > reschedule an appointment from 2003 to a date in 2004, this is easily > done. > > When you make appointments, you can now specify an end time, as well as a > start time, for appointments. This allows you to block time in your > Planner, and you will be advised if you attempt to make an appointment > that conflicts with an existing one. You can choose to accept the conflict > or reschedule one of the appointments. The end time can be on a date that > is different from the start date, allowing you to schedule appointments > that span more than the one day. > > KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 will allow you to specify the location of an > appointment, to mark time as free, busy, tentatively scheduled, or out of > the office. Some minor changes, such as the Next Appointment feature > advising you how many appointments you have remaining today, make the > Planner even more useful. > > And most significantly, KeyPlan will support a wide range of recurring > appointments. You can schedule your appointment according to dates, or > patterns of days, weeks, months or years - for example an event may be on > the 25th of every month, or on the third Thursday of every month, or every > 25th of March, or every day at 9am, etc. There is a pattern of recurrence > to cover just about every type of recurring event you could think of. > > A new version of KeySync, version 1.1, will mean that you can synchronise > appointments with Microsoft Outlook. > > We're also adding the much requested word count feature to KeyWord, and > making a number of minor fixes which we will detail when we make the > release. > > KeySoft 5.1 gives you one of the most powerful planners on the market > today, yet in the familiar friendly KeySoft style where you don't have to > grapple with graphical interfaces to get the job done. We'll look forward > to telling you more as the Development work is completed and the release > gets closer. > Jonathan Mosen > BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager > Pulse Data International Ltd > > DDI: +64-3-373-6192 > Fax: +64-3-384 4933 > Mobile: +64-21 466 736 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: www.pulsedata.com > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > Excellent news, Jonathan and I look forward to that. However, one thing I wished had been included, and that I myself consider a significant flaw in the planner, is the inability to re-insert form feeds and so repair the planner if it becomes corrupted without having to go through the tedious process of saving the data to a new file, opening in Keyword, repairing the damage if possible, then erasing the planner file and inserting the new word process file into an empty planner file. I have had this problem several times on long planner files, and often have had to insert blocks for each date manually the above technique does not work. Why can 'space P' (BN hotkey) not be used to insert a form feed as in KeyWord? I know this has been requested by others too. Still, I look forward to the new software with eagerness. --- TheJazzDen - the best UK, US and around-the-world jazz - www.thejazzden.org.uk now with broadband and modem streams! --- Broadband: put http://listen.thejazzden.org.uk:10025 into your player. --- Dial-up: put http://listen.thejazzden.org.uk:10023 into your player. --- Essentially Natural - Our own hand-made soaps and cosmetics using natural ingredients now accepting credit cards online: http://www.e-nat.co.uk. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:56 AM Subject: [Braillenote] KeySoft 5.1 Preliminary Info > Hi all. We're at the point now where I am able to reveal some more > information about the next version of KeySoft, which we hope to release in > the first quarter of this year. KeySoft 5.1 will be a free upgrade for all > version 5 customers. If you have a software maintenance agreement, it will > not decrement your SMA count. > > Late last year, I asked participants on our BrailleNote discussion list > what they would like to see in KeyPlan, our Planner application. Version > 5.1 of KeySoft is largely devoted to implementing most of our customers' > vision of the ideal planner application, with a completely rewritten > planner package. > > KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 will use database technology. The first benefit of > this is that the boundaries between years no longer exist. If you wish to > reschedule an appointment from 2003 to a date in 2004, this is easily > done. > > When you make appointments, you can now specify an end time, as well as a > start time, for appointments. This allows you to block time in your > Planner, and you will be advised if you attempt to make an appointment > that conflicts with an existing one. You can choose to accept the conflict > or reschedule one of the appointments. The end time can be on a date that > is different from the start date, allowing you to schedule appointments > that span more than the one day. > > KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 will allow you to specify the location of an > appointment, to mark time as free, busy, tentatively scheduled, or out of > the office. Some minor changes, such as the Next Appointment feature > advising you how many appointments you have remaining today, make the > Planner even more useful. > > And most significantly, KeyPlan will support a wide range of recurring > appointments. You can schedule your appointment according to dates, or > patterns of days, weeks, months or years - for example an event may be on > the 25th of every month, or on the third Thursday of every month, or every > 25th of March, or every day at 9am, etc. There is a pattern of recurrence > to cover just about every type of recurring event you could think of. > > A new version of KeySync, version 1.1, will mean that you can synchronise > appointments with Microsoft Outlook. > > We're also adding the much requested word count feature to KeyWord, and > making a number of minor fixes which we will detail when we make the > release. > > KeySoft 5.1 gives you one of the most powerful planners on the market > today, yet in the familiar friendly KeySoft style where you don't have to > grapple with graphical interfaces to get the job done. We'll look forward > to telling you more as the Development work is completed and the release > gets closer. > Jonathan Mosen > BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager > Pulse Data International Ltd > > DDI: +64-3-373-6192 > Fax: +64-3-384 4933 > Mobile: +64-21 466 736 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: www.pulsedata.com > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >
