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From: [e-mail] (Steven Folberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Hey, Digita! Organizer suggestion
Date: 29 Jan 1996 17:24:10 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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I own Digita Organizer 1.0 and am planning upgrading to 2.0.  The program is
excellent and has a beautiful user interface.  But there's one feature lacking
that I find very frustrating...

Why do all saves to the program have to be made globally?  (This is also a
frustration I have with Wordworth 3.1 R2, but that's another story...)  In
other words, when a series of alarm windows pops up when I boot up the
computer (i.e., alarms set to "0 days in advance" with no time of day
specified), each window should have *two* options: "save" and "toss." "Save"
means, show me this message again the next time I boot up; I've seen it but I
want to be reminded of it again."  "Toss" means "fine," I've seen this
reminder and don't need to see it again.

In real world usage, I may know the moment that I see a reminder that "I'm not
going to get to this today and I want to be reminded of it again," and
Organizer needs a quick and painless way to accomplish this. (Quicker, that
is, than cutting the event, pasting on a new day, and resetting the alarm).

If Organizer had a feature something like I've suggested (essentially, letting
you save or toss alarms one by one) then when I "hide" or "quit" or add an
event, I wouldn't have to choose between saving ALL changes and losing all
alarms that I'd seen, or not saving changes.

Thanks for listening, and I hope this made sense!

Steve Folberg
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