TF~0~ Welcome to the LifeTime Tutorial! Please take about five minutes to let us give you a quick overview of LifeTime through this animated tutorial. If you do not have time to view it now, you can Exit the Tutorial, and return to it later through the 'Tutorial' pick on the Help menu. Otherwise, please press the Enter key to continue...
TF~0~LifeTime is a Personal Information Manager dedicated to ease-of-use and innovative features that you won't find in other PIMs at any price. Never has it been so easy to enter appointments and to-do items into a PIM. To begin, you merely start typing, and hit enter! No secondary screens to bring up, no buttons to press. Watch as we demonstrate a new appointment being logged...
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KI~Meeting to set product rollout date. Room A.
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TF~1~After typing in the text of our appointment, and hitting the Enter key, the item now rests in what is called the 'Hold' area. The next step is to set the time when the appointment will occur. With other PIMs, you may have to type in the time the item begins, or click on little arrows or scroll bars to set it. With LifeTime, you do the profoundly simple - you drag it with the mouse to the appropriate time! Watch...
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TF~2~That's how simple it is to create an appointment! If the time for the appointment has to change, you just move it again with the mouse. Now, suppose the default one-half hour length of the appointment is too short for our meeting? Well, changing the duration of an item in LifeTime is as easy and innovative as setting its time. We again use the mouse, and adjust the duration while holding down the RIGHT mouse button...
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TF~2~You now have an hour-and-a-half appointment! As we saw, its start time and duration can be quickly adjusted with a flick of the wrist (and for you keyboard lovers, there are simple keyboard equivalents to achieve the same effects); but suppose your boss tells you that this meeting has been moved to tomorrow? Easy - we just put the appointment into the 'Hold' area again while we advance the schedule forward a day...
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TF~2~It's that simple to move an item! You see, by treating each item as a self-contained object, LifeTime allows you to manipulate it with your mouse in ways that make sense. Our object has properties - two of which (time and duration) we just set. We can access other properties as well. For example, double-clicking on the appointment brings up a form where we can add a Note that will be permanently attached to the item...
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NE~The product will be brought out initially in three states - Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. There must be a two-month period allowed for so that personnel in our offices located in those states can be trained. Bill Perry will be coordinating this training effort and will report to us at the meeting about his progress in the preparations.
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TF~2~Notice how, when we closed the note and saved it, the text of the appointment changed to italics, so that we will always know there is a note attached to it. Aside from adding notes to appointments, other properties include setting an Alarm, and making the appointment Recur on a regular basis. The full list appears in a Popup menu when you single-click on the item with the right mouse button.
TF~3~ In addition to the schedule appointment items, LifeTime also keeps track of your To-Do list. You can click on the 'ToDo' tab in the upper right to see these items. Watch as we make that shift to the To-Do view, and enter a couple of items to display...
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KI~Fax quarterly report to Dallas.
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KI~Finish cost-cutting analysis.
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TF~1~With the To-Do items, there is no start time or duration as with schedule appointments, so they sit together in a stack as you see here. To-Dos have some properties that are different than those for Schedule items. For example, you can set a Priority and a Due Date on a ToDo item. As with the appointments, a full list of the properties can be seen in a Popup menu by clicking the right mouse button on the item.
TF~0~ Since LifeTime will be an important part of your Windows desktop, you will probably want to keep it up and running all the time. As you can see, the program takes up most of the screen in Super-VGA, and all of it in VGA. How can you keep LifeTime's information displayed and at your fingertips while still having room on your desktop to run other programs?
TF~0~ LifeTime solves this problem by having 3 different ways it can be shown - 3 different 'Presentations'. You are seeing the Full Screen presentation now. The second presentation shows you only the items, without the calendar or other things on the left side of the screen. Let's take a look at that view now...
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TF~1~ This view saves a little screen real estate. You can see today's items, and switch between the To-Do list and Schedule items. The absence of the Calendar, however, makes it more difficult to view the items of different days. The third 'Presentation' is the smallest of the three and centers on the Calendar. We will switch to that one now...
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TF~1~This view may seem to just give you a look at the monthly calendar, but in LifeTime, the Calendar is very powerful. From the view you see here, you can Print, see the Month- or Week-View, and even see the items of any day come up in a Popup window when you click on that day with the right mouse button. Let's try that and look at the currently selected day's schedule. Then hit enter to make it go away...
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TF~4~If you want to switch at any time to the Full-screen view from this Calendar view, you can do so quickly by merely clicking with the left mouse button on the day you wish to see. You can return just as quickly to the Calendar view by clicking on the name of the month at the top of the Calendar. Let's switch back and forth a couple of times so you can get the idea...
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TF~5~This concludes our quick introduction to LifeTime. Unfortunately, we could only begin to scratch the surface of the features and power of this top-of-the-line PIM. Take the time to play with the product and read the Help file. You will find that whether you are Printing, Searching, or using the Phonebook or any other function, LifeTime is as innovative and intuitive as you have seen demonstrated here.
