On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:45:08PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Hi Chris,
On 29-May-07 16:42:17, Chris G wrote:
I'm still searching for a calendar/PIM application that suits my needs (or at least vaguely approximates to them).
I want a very simple application that allows me to enter reminders etc. so I can remember appointments etc. I don't want the complexity that most seem to offer but what I *do* want to do is be able to add links of some sort to appointments that can point to what are effectively diary entries. It can be web/HTML or just desktop, I'm not too fussed.
I think it might help if you explained more definitely what you mean by this.
Thanks for persevering with me! :-)
While I accept that you've tried 'plan' andit doen't match what you're after, nevertheless if you click on a date in the primary display, you can
a) Enter the appointment/event (by hand of course)
Yes, OK, I'm running plan as I type this.
I have to say that it's the window that pops up to enter an appointment/event is what made me describe plan as 'clunky'
b) Once you've done that, click on the "Message" button for that appointment, and then enter arbitrary text, so this becomes a "diary entry" in a certain sense of the term, in that next time you click on that date you'll get the "Schedule" window with the entries for that date listed, and you can click on the "Message" button for any entry to read what you wrote earlier about it.
Er, um, I don't see a "Message" button. In the Schedule window where you add an appointment there are Group, Date, Time, Warn and Note columns. You can enter abritrary text in the Note..... Ahhhhh!!! My pet hate, icons with no text that I don't understand! :-) There's no hover help either so I didn't spot it there. It took a while to find the help for it too but I mae it inthe end.
So, on the face of it, this apparently meets your need. But since you say it doesn't, it would help to know what the mis-match really is!
Yes, it does in a way, except that I *really* want the messages to be created and stored in a more accessible (to me) format.
The Script button (%) is not quite what I want either. What would give me what I want is a script button that actually runs a script when you click on it (rather than telling plan to run a script when the appointment is due) and passes the date to the script. This would let me run an editor or whatever to create/view some text I have created with my tool of choice that is linked to the date.
I.e. I want a simple appointments diary with a way of linking it to the entries in a journal/diary. It strikes me that this is a very obvious sort of thing to want but I can't find anything that seems to do it.
This suggests that what you call a "journal/diary entry" is something that you've edited into a file, independently of the calendar/PIM application; and when you click on a date in the calendar/PIM you want it to link to this independent file according (e.g.) to a "DATE" key in the file. Is that correct? (It seems to tie in with what you wrote below).
Yes, you have understood my (rather ambiguous) explanation of what I want. It's unclear because I'm not really terribly clear in my own mind what it is exactly that I want and it might be that I'll find something that doesn't fit my description but does do what I need.
I have installed and tried plan by the way, it seems very 'clunky' to me.
Yes, I agree it's a bit clunky! But I've found it very useable over the years.
It is quite flexible though, e.g. it's one of the very few such applications which lets you actually see a view of today plus the next few days rather than a week that starts on a fixed day or a month. The 'execute' doesn't do what I need either, it runs a program when the appointment is due (or at a time before).
Again, yes. What would perhaps add the functionality you seek is that if you say right-click (which at present does nothing) instead of left-click (which gives you the entry editor), on a date, it would launch the app you want to be run for that date.
Yes, that is exactly the sort of thing I think I want.
What I needed was a way to run a program (to add a dairy entry) when you click on a date, I've found a fairly crude way of doing this using Xdialog.
-- Chris Green
All the best, Ted.
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