NOTE TO ARCHIVERS: Please don't use the installation notes as the description of the package. A better capsule summary can be found in the Read me and the User's Guide introduction.
Requirements
This package requires System 7.0 or later. It has been tested with early versions of System 8 and should work fine there as well.
What You Should Have
The following files are provided as part of the standard distribution:
Installation Guide -- (a text file) you are reading it.
Remember? User's Guide -- (an application) full documentation for the package.
Register (Dave Warker) -- (an application) used to pay shareware fee via KAGI service.
Remember? -- (an application) the heart of the package.
Remember? Extension -- (a system extension) required for pop-up alerts.
Occasions -- (a folder) sample occasion files to get you started.
You have an incomplete distribution if you are missing any of these items. You can download the full distribution from my web site <http://www.waterw.com/~davew> or any of the popular Net archives such as Info-Mac. My web site also contains additional occasion collections such as: religious holidays, files with holidays for U.S. and other countries, plus a large collection of celebrity birthdays and notable events.
Upgrading from a Previous Version
All occasions and preferences are carried over when you upgrade. However, before installing a new version it is always a Good Idea™ to save copies of your existing occasion files , Remember's settings file and the old Remember? and Remember? Extension files to a floppy disk.
Procedure
Installation is easier using a printed copy of these instructions.
• Install the Extension
Drag and drop the Remember? Extension onto the icon for the System Folder on your hard drive. The System Folder is found in the window you see when you double click the hard drive icon at the top right of the screen, generally just below the menu bar. It should be placed into the Extensions folder inside the System Folder and you should see a message to this effect. Select 'OK' if you are asked if you want to replace an older version of the extension with the new file (presumably you are already using a version of the package.)
NOTE: There appears to be an incompatibility between Remember?'s pop-up alerts and several Graphics Accelerator extensions. If pop-up alerts appear as text only with no background, then you must remove any graphics accelerator extensions present in the system Extensions folder. This will be corrected in the next release.
• Install the Occasions folder
SKIP THIS STEP IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION. This is only for new users installing the package for the first time. Replacing your existing copies of the occasion files contained in this folder will cause the loss of any occasions you have already added occasions to the Personal file.
For you new users, drag the Occasions folder and drop it onto the icon for the System Folder. This folder contains a few sample files with common holidays and a few celebrity birthdays. It also contains an empty occasion file named Personal you can use for your own additions. None of these are required. You are free to create your own set of files to match your personal preferences. However, these files will give you a good starting point until you feel confident enough to organize things differently.
• Install the main application in the Apple Menu
Double click the System Folder icon and look in the System Folder window for a folder named Apple Menu Items (changing the System Folder to a View by Name list might make this easier.) Drag and drop the Remember? application onto the Apple Menu Items folder icon. Close the System Folder window when you are done.
NOTE: This is the simplest way to get the application in the Apple menu. Experienced users can choose to keep the application in some other folder on their hard drive and place an alias of it in the Apple Menu Items folder. It will work fine either way.
• Restart the Mac
Select Restart from the Finder's Special menu so that the extension can load into memory. You should now see a new icon with the Remember? logo among the other extension icons that march across the bottom of the screen at startup. If you don't see it, make sure that Remember? Extension is in the Extensions folder. If you use an extension manager such as NOW Startup Manager or Conflict Catcher, make sure that the extension is turned on there.
If this is a new installation, the icon will have a frowning face and a large X. That's correct because you haven't used the application yet.
If you are upgrading from a previous version, you are all done. Go ahead and play with the new version but be sure to read the User Guide because version 3.0 contains many new features and changes over the 2.x releases.
New Installation Continued
If all goes well, after Restart you should get a message telling you to use the application to finish the install. Do that by selecting Remember? from the the 'apple' menu at the left end of the menu bar. The first thing the package does is search for occasion files in the System Folder and the folder containing the application. This is quite fast so the window may only appear very briefly.
Next you should see the About box with a short "welcome" message and general information about the package. Read the text then click <Done> to enter the application. Close the message saying that the Default window list is empty, which is correct since you are a new user, to get a window listing the current month's events. Experiment with the What's Happening menu to find a date range you want to see every time you open the application. Feel free to move and resize the event list window as well. When you are satisfied choose File menu : Open Window Set sub-menu : Save This Set and you will see the same window arrangement every time you access the package.
If you chose NOT to install the sample files, you will need to create at least one occasion file before you can do anything useful. Read the User's Guide section that talks about the Active Occasion File list to learn how to do this.
Before playing too much you should read the User's Guide to learn the details of how everything works. The important topics are creating occasions and also the section about setting preferences, since everyone has their own idea on how things should look.
