PIM/LX Version 2.0 released 24 July 2004.
The update was created by Daniel Hertrich. Please download the archive
and take a look at the history file for more details.
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PIM/LX Announcement
Posted on Monday, 28 Jun 1999
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Announcement of PIM Add-on for PE
If you need PIM (Personal Information Management; appointment
book, phone book, notes etc.) applications that show
colorful rotating icons that you have to click and
double-click with the mouse, then you better stop reading.
This product will not be useful for you!
If you are willing to invest a bit of initial thought and
learning, this product might turn into a highly efficient
productivity tool that you will depend on.
I stopped using the built-in applications of the palmtop
(ApptBook, PhoneBook, NoteTaker) and use PE.EXE and PIM.EXE
to do all that those applications provide - and quite a bit
more. PE.EXE is the core of all and is simply a new version
of PalEdit, which supports PIM features. PIM.EXE is a
program that is able to visualize your data in many ways.
Both programs are copyrighted freeware and available from D&A
Software by ftp from ftp.dasoft.com in directory
/pub/PE as pe.zip and pim.zip.
Note that the product is not supported by D&A Software
nor by the author. If you ask questions in places
like the HPLX mailing list, there is a good chance to get
an answer though.
Some features:
- Graphical daily, weekly, monthly views and a list view
- All data is pure ASCII
- Data may be spread across many files (e.g. sorted by topic)
- All pieces of data can be linked to other pieces
- All data can be assigned to multiple categories and boolean
expressions can be used to set filters on categories
- Data can be imported and exported from and to vCard and
vCalendar format (a utility to convert ADB files to vCalendar
is also included) and exported to CDF (CSV) format.
- Many different views are supported (e.g. pending tasks,
tasks and appointments, done tasks, future tasks, overdue
tasks etc.)
- Structured data (e.g. start dates, end dates, alarms etc.)
can be freely mixed with text
- Alarms that turn on the palmtop are supported (and can be
mixed with system manager alarms).
- All fonts are configurable, and many of the aspects of the
daily, weekly and monthly views
- Full support of repeating tasks and appointments, even such
events relative to Easter
And last but not least I want to heartily thank everyone in
the magnificent beta team! Without them and their ideas,
suggestions, creativity and searching for bugs, the product
would never have become what it is now.
Andreas Garzotto, 26-Jun-99
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