EasyManager For Windows Version 3.0 ----------------------------------- Copyright (C) 1995-1997, TekFocus Corporation (Please read this file completely before starting) BRIEF DESCRIPTION ----------------- Manage personal, business and internet addresses, unlimited phone/fax numbers, email addresses, family relationships, birthdays, marriage dates. Manage ToDo lists, and Reminders at regular intervals. Manage subscriptions, credit cards, bank accounts, etc. Export/Import to/from text files, CompuServe Address Book. Share home/work addresses and phone numbers, auto-fill partial entries (EasyFill), customize EasyLists to view, edit and print only the attributes you want, quickly lookup information (EasyLook), print custom labels and address book. Filter (EasyFilter) and sort (EasySort) lists and labels in any way you want to, and more. Dial phone, send email, open web addresses using your favorite applications. Registration provides free email support, and free upgrades for atleast one year. LONG DESCRIPTION ---------------- EasyManager For Windows manages personal information including internet addresses, ToDo lists, and Reminders. Export/import relevant information to text files and other programs like CompuServe Address Book, etc. Apart from the personal information like postal addresses, unlimited telephone/fax/email/web addresses, you can also keep family relationships for persons so you don't have to separately remember the names and other details of your friends/relatives' spouses and their children. You can share home addresses and telephone/fax numbers amongst persons living together so you do not have to worry about entering the same information multiple times and maintaining consistency. You can keep all the details of your accounts like subscription, bank, credit card, and store accounts. You can manage ToDo lists, and reminders. You can easily enter, view, filter, sort and print personal information on Persons, Businesses, Accounts, ToDo and Reminders. You can create your own Lists and Labels. You can export/import data to/from text files and CompuServe Information Manager Address Book. Integrated to dial, send email, open url/web address and copy postal addresses to clipboard using your favorite applications. FEATURES -------- The following are the salient features of EasyManager For Windows: - Six types of objects - Person, Business, Account, ToDo, Reminder and Group. - Unlimited Telephone/Fax Numbers for each Person/Business/Account with description for each number. - Unlimited Email and internet addresses for each Person/Business/Account. - Birth and Marriage dates. - Share home address, home telephone and fax numbers with other persons so you have to only enter and update the information once. - Share work address with other persons so you have to only enter and update the work address change once. - Maintain Relationships (father, mother, spouse, children) - Track things to do, prioritize them, and group them. - Enter Reminders of things you want to be reminded of, and at what intervals - weekly, monthly, yearly, etc. - Group objects in any combination you want to. Groups can be grouped further in other groups. - Define/Customize EasyLists to view, edit, filter, sort, and print only the information you want. - EasyEditor to view and edit all the attributes of one object at a time. - EasyExport to export relevant data to text files and other programs including CompuServe Information Manager Address Book, Spreadsheets, etc. - EasyImport to import data from text files and CompuServe Address Book. - EasyLabel to create, view, filter, sort and print custom labels. - EasyFill to automatically complete partially entered entries. - EasyFilter to quickly filter objects in EasyLists and EasyLabels using any criteria you want. - EasySort to sort objects in EasyLists and EasyLabels using any attribute you want. - EasyLook to quickly look up desired information without having to open EasyList or EasyEditor. Lookup incrementally. - Dial phone numbers, send email, open web addresses using your default applications. CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.5.1 [From HISTORY.TXT] -------------------------- - Added capability to filter by a component of the date, i.e. now you can filter by this/next/previous day/month/year. - Added URL/Web attribute for Person, Business, and Account objects. - Added capability to Dial a phone number in Windows 95/NT. It uses the default dialer that you have setup under Windows 95/NT to dial. - Added capability to send Email using your default emailer. - Added capability to open Url/Web address using your default browser. - Added capability to copy postal address to clipboard so you can easily paste it in another application. - You can now print labels starting from any row/col. See the Page Setup for labels. - You can now display/print one label only of the selected object. by checking the "Show selected objects only" check box in the EasyLabel definition. - Added right button context sensitive menu to quickly view the phone/fax numbers, email addresses, Url/Web addresses, and postal addresses within the menu itself. - Right button context sensitive menu now is available from EasyLists, EasyLook and EasyEditor. - Added hints to help you in editing attributes of objects. Added general hints to make you more productive. - Changed the edit behavior within EasyList/EasyEditor such that when you start editing a cell, it will replace the old contents of the cell. Previously it appended to the previous content. - EasyList and EasyLabel menus are now sorted alphabetically. - Added capability to duplicate EasyFilter, EasySort, EasyList, and EasyLabel definitions. - Added password protection. - Added incremental search capability from within EasyLook. Now you can do incremental search and the object is selected everywhere. - Added capability to search for more attributes than key attribute depending on the object within EasyLook. For Person object it now searches for Name, Alias and CompanyName. For Business, it now searches for business name and additional name. For Account, it searches for account name and description. - Renamed "Title" attribute of Person object to "Mr./Ms./...". - Added 2nd street address field for postal addresses. KEYWORDS -------- PIM, EASY MANAGER, WINDOWS, EZMGR, PHONE BOOK, ADDRESS BOOK, FAMILY, ACCOUNT, BUSINESS, INTERNET, WEB, URL, TODO, REMINDER, CIM, EXPORT, IMPORT FILES IN THE PACKAGE [EZMGR251.ZIP] ----------------------------------- 1. easymgr.exe : Program Executable File 2. easymgr.def : Program Support File 3. easymgr.hlp : Program Help File 4. easymgr.sdf : Program Support File 5. ssvbx25.vbx : VBX File 6. register.wri : Registration Form in WRITE format 7. register.txt : Registration Form in TEXT format 8. readme.txt : Readme File (This File) 9. history.txt : History of changes in different versions 10. file_id.diz : File for BBS SysOp 11. install.exe : Installation Program 12. winstall.inf : Installation Support File 13. faq.txt : Frequently Asked Questions 14. orgdial.exe : Helper program to dail phone numbers 15. ezupdate.bat : Batch program for updating the customizations for users upgrading from previous version. 16. easyamgr.dei : 3.0 specific customization information REQUIREMENTS ------------ Windows 3.1 or higher running on 486 or higher IBM PC or compatible. At Least 4 MB RAM required. INSTALLATION ------------ If installing from the EZMGRxxx.ZIP file: [IMPORTANT: READ INSTALLATION NOTES BELOW] 1. Unzip the package by PKUNZIP or any other compatible UNZIP utility. Unpack it in a directory which is not going to be the final destination directory where EasyManager For Windows will be installed. 2. Run install.exe from within Windows Program Manager as install.exe. [This step is needed to copy all the files to your destination directory, and to create a Program Group] If installing from EasyManager For Windows floppy diskette: 1. Insert the diskette to the appropriate drive 2. Run install.exe from within windows Program manager as a:\install.exe. Installation Notes: NOTE 1: During installation, do not specify destination directory same as source directory. It will confuse the installation program. IF YOU ARE UPGRADING READ FOLLOWING NOTES. NOTE 2: Note your registration number before upgrading. You will need it when you run this version for the first time. NOTE 3: If you had previously installed EasyManager For Windows and you are not upgrading in the same directory as before, please delete the EasyManager program group first, otherwise the path information will be incorrect. NOTE 4: During installation, your previous customizations will not be restored. However, if you are upgrading from version 2.5 or 2.5.1, you can restore your previous customizations by running EZUPDATE.BAT from the EasyManager installation directory. This will allow you to restore your old customizations, and also add most (but not all) of the new default customizations that come with this version. C:> CD EASYMGR C:EASYMGR> EZUPDATE.BAT GENERAL ADVICE FOR NEW USERS ---------------------------- These are suggestions for new users to help them get started quickly and avoid pit falls later on. Ofcourse, you can come up with your own set of rules depending on your style. - Before starting, read the Help item "Getting Started". - Set your preferences. You can get to the Preferences Dialog from "Edit -> Preferences" menu item. - To get started, it is easiest to enter all information using the EasyEditor. EasyLists are more convenient, and also more versatile once all your data is entered in the program. - Some predefined EasyLists are already provided for your convenience. You can define new EasyLists or edit the definition of an existing EasyLists by clicking on "EasyLists -> Define EasyList..." menu item. - Create Person objects to store information of people like their home, work and email addresses, telephone and fax numbers, family relationships, age, date of birth and marriage, etc. - Create a Business object if you only want to store information NOT associated with a person but is associated with a business entity. You can store business name, postal and email address, telephone and fax numbers, and comments. - Create Account objects if you want to store information on your accounts like credit cards, bank cards, subscriptions, etc. - Create ToDo objects to maintain a list of things to do. An EasyList of ToDo objects will tell you what things you need to do. - Create Reminder objects to maintain a list of things you want to be reminded of and how often. EasyManager will create ToDo objects automatically to remind you as necessary. - For Person Objects, specify the following relationships whenever you can: - Living With: This will automatically help you share home address, phone and fax between persons living together. Person with whom others are living with is called the "Primary" Person or "Head of Household". Be careful whom you select as head of household, as you can filter objects based on who the head of household is. - Working With: This will automatically help you share Company Name and Work Address between persons working together. In the next release, you can also optionally share the work phone and fax numbers. - When entering a Person's name, follow a convention of entering first name, middle name, last name in that order. The names are split into first, middle and last automatically by EasyManager. - To add/create multiple telephone, fax, email addresses from within EasyList, use the Right Mouse Button Menu. Simply press the right mouse button by keeing the mouse pointer in the cell where you want to add a new telephone number, etc. and choose the appropriate menu item. - Year part in the Date fields must be specified along with the century. This is to avoid the problems when we reach year 2000. Example: 1995 is correct, whereas 95 is not correct. - Currently, in some cases the first time you open a window within EasyManager (like EasyList, EasyEditor, etc.) if the window does not appear on the screen, the window is off-screen. You can get the window back by clicking on "Tile" or "Cascade" menu item from the "Window" menu. - This problem is fixed. If you still see this problem, please report it. - You must ensure that your system date and time is set correctly for shareware license to work. You can set the date and time from DOS using the "Date" and "Time" commands, or from your BIOS setup. - To quickly go from EasyList to EasyEditor, double-click the "Id" of the object in the EasyList. It will display the EasyEditor with the object selected in the EasyEditor. - To quickly jump to an object that is being referred to by an attribute of another object in either the EasyList or EasyEditor, press Ctrl+J. - Don't forget to try the Right mouse button popup menu in EasyLists, EasyLook and EasyEditor. They are very handy. COPYRIGHT --------- EasyManager For Windows is fully copyrighted by TekFocus Corporation. EasyManager, EasyList, EasyEditor, EasyExport, EasyImport, EasyLook, EasyFill, EasyLabel, EasyFilter, EasySort, EasyReport, EasyToDo, and EasyReminder are all trademarks of TekFocus Corporation. LICENSE ------- EasyManager For Windows is NOT free software. EasyManager For Windows is released as SHAREWARE. This means that you may try the software for 30 days free of charge. After 30 days, you should either pay the required registration fees or should stop using the software and delete the software permanently from your hard disk. The REGISTRATION FEE is $17.00 US Dollars. Registration entitles you to the following: 1. Free upgrades to all future shareware releases of the program for at least one year. 2. Free technical support via email (em-support@tekfocus.com). HOW TO REGISTER --------------- You may register EasyManager in one of the following ways: - Fill out the registration form (register.txt or register.wri) and send it along with a check for US $17.00. - Through Compuserve, GO SWREG, follow instructions to register shareware. The EasyManager Registration number is 9978. SHAREWARE DISTRIBUTION ---------------------- You may distribute the package freely to FTP sites, Bulletin Boards, Shareware/Freeware/Public Domain archives, CD-ROMS, Magazine Cover Disks and CD-ROMS, etc. Shareware disk vendors also may also freely distribute the package. Distribution of the package in any form is subject to ALL the following conditions; [1] ALL the files supplied with the progam must be included, and [2] NO ATTEMPT must be made to modify or alter ANYTHING in any of the files, and [3] You must not charge ANYTHING for distributing this package (disk vendors may charge a reasonable fee, for media and duplication). DISCLAIMER ---------- You use "EasyManager For Windows" ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. I do NOT warranty ANYTHING concerning any of the programs or files which make up "EasyManager For Windows". I accept NO RESPONSIBILITY for ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE of ANY kind, including, but not limited to, losses of a physical, mental, social, financial, marital, or of whatever nature, resulting from the use, or the purported use of "EasyManager For Windows", or any of the files in the package, for any purpose whatsoever. I do not even warranty that the programs will not kill you. If these terms are not acceptable to you, then please DELETE all the files from your disks IMMEDIATELY AND PERMANENTLY. DOWNLOAD SITES -------------- You can download EasyManager For Windows from any of the following locations: o URL: ftp://ftp.tekfocus.com/ezmgr30.zip o FTP: ftp.tekfocus.com/ezmgr30.zip o URL: http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/pim/ezmgr30.zip o FTP: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/pim/ezmgr30.zip o COMPUSERVE: EZMGR.ZIP from WinProd Forum (CIS:WINPROD) Lib #8 (PIMs & Phone Books)] CONTACT ADDRESS --------------- Vivek Gupta TekFocus Corporation 1578 Theo Drive San Jose, CA 95131 USA. Email: vivek@tekfocus.com Tel: 408.452.0110 FILE_ID.DIZ (Reproduced) ------------------------ EasyManager For Windows 3.0: Manage postal, email and internet addresses, unlimited phones, family relationships, accounts, todo, reminders etc. Group objects. Export/Import to/from text files and other applications. Share addresses & phone numbers, auto-fill partial entries (EasyFill), customize EasyLists, quickly lookup information (EasyLook), EasyFilter & EasySort objects. Print custom labels, dial, send email, and more. SHAREWARE (US $17.00) V. Gupta, TekFoucs Corp. vivek@tekfocus.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TekFocus Corporation March 1997.