“Remember?” is NOT public domain software! It is being distributed under a Shareware policy. You may use the package for a two-week trial period without obligation. At the end of the trial period, you must either send the requested Shareware contribution (as specified below) to continue using the program, or remove it from your system and discontinue all further use. I have put many hours of work into this pro-gram, so please send the money if you continue to use the program!
You are allowed (and encouraged) to distribute this program to others, but please follow these guidelines:
• PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THE COMPLETE SET OF “Remember?” FILES! I would prefer that you distribute only the original packed, archive file to insure nothing has been lost, but at least pass the entire folder.
• You cannot alter any program or file contained in the “Remember?” package.
• You cannot charge a fee for “Remember?”, though you may charge for the medium used to distribute it (diskette, download time, etc.) Anyone wishing to bundle or distribute “Remember?” with any other program(s) must first contact the author.
• You may not restrict further redistribution of “Remember?”
• Those receiving the “Remember?” package still must pay the Shareware fee after their individual trial use period.
To further encourage distribution of “Remember?”, you can pay a reduced Shareware fee if you are the first to contribute a new version to a timeshare service or club library, with a limit of four (4) deductions. Include the name and address/phone of the club/bbs/service and the “Remember?” version number uploaded.
I will mail a diskette containing the most recent release of the package if you include an additional $5.00. The disk also contains this manual in Microsoft Word™ format with an index and table of contents and some sounds to use with the pop-up alerts.
Please note that I do not automatically send new versions to everyone who has paid the Shareware fee. I will insure that the on-line services listed below have the latest released version, though other major on-line services will have it as well.
Normal Shareware contribution:
$20.00 (US)
Each upload/contribution discount:
Subtract: $5.00 (US) (to a maximum of 4 deductions!)
To get a disk with the latest version:
Add: $5.00 (US)
Send payment (only U.S. checks, currency or a money order, please) to:
David Warker
1330 W. North Street
Egg Harbor, NJ USA 08215-1763
To contact the author:
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Phone: (609) 965-4357 (when necessary)
Disclaimer
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“Remember?” is being distributed on an “as is” basis with no guarantee that it is bug free. The author is not responsible for losses incurred through the use or malfunction of this program. He will attempt to fix any problems as they are discovered. (The first person reporting a bug and giving sufficient information to allow duplication and correction will be sent a fixed version when available.) IF THESE TERMS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE TO YOU, THEN DO NOT USE THE PROGRAM.
What is “Remember?” (and what will it do for me)
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It’s been a hard day. You walk in the front door and see your spouse/child/doggie waiting there with a happy, hopeful expression plastered on his/her/its puss. Panic! You’ve done it again. Forgotten another birthday… or… You saw the promo for that final, cliff-hanging episode of “Twin Peaks” and then remembered it only when everybody else was talking about it the day after.
Friends, “Remember?” was made for you.
No longer will you have to endure the embarrassment of having a memory only slightly better than a certain recent ex-Presidential actor. As long as you are using your Mac, “Remember?” will let you know what is happening.
You enter descriptions of important (or trivial) occasions, both one-time-only events like that “Twin Peaks” finale, and repeating events like the anniversary of your dog’s neutering or a loved one’s birthday. “Remember?” allows you to browse through the recent past and future to see when occasions have happened/will happen and can pop up to remind you of them when you turn on your Mac or just before their scheduled time.
“Remember?” is NOT intended as a scheduling program to coordinate the activities of a group of people. It is a personal reminder system. If you can coax it to handle your scheduling needs and can live within its limitations, great, but bear in mind that is not its “raison d’être.”
What You Should Have
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The “Remember?” package is normally distributed in a single archive file. That file expands into a directory containing the component files for installation on your system. After expanding the archive file, you should have a directory containing the following files and folders:
• Remember? Manual folder
… Part 1, Overview & Installation
… Part 2, Startup checks & Alerts
… Part 3, The Desk Accessory
… Part 4, Desk Accessory Windows
… Part 5, Credits
TeachText format documentation for the package.
• Remember? Manual (Word™)
Optional Microsoft Word™ format document containing all of above. (Included on the distribution diskette.)
• Remember? DA
Font/DA Mover document containing the “Remember?” Desk Accessory (must be installed in your system.)
• Remember? Extension
“Remember?” Extension (INIT) Document (must be installed.)
• Occasions
… Holidays
… Notable
Folder containing the sample Occasion files: standard holidays and some celebrity birthdays.
Installing “Remember?”
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• System Requirements
“Remember?” requires System 6 or later (System 6.0.5 or later is recommended) and works just peachy with System 7.0. Floppies are ok, but things run faster on a hard disk. Enabling the disk cache helps too.
“Remember? Extension” uses about 9k bytes of System heap space. The pop-up occasion alerts temporarily use a few K of application heap space, plus whatever space is required for the associated sound (long sounds may not play if there is insufficient space.) I haven’t experienced any problems related to this temporary use but it is possible some applications may have difficulties.
You will need ResEdit or a similar utility to move sounds into the configuration file or directly edit configuration resources (not recommended for the uninitiated in the mystic art of resource diddling.)
NOTE to users with Color systems. Early versions of the file "32-Bit Quickdraw" (version 1.0, 1.1) caused very strange problems for DAs with sub- menus. You should use version 1.2 or later.
••• Attention, Users of Early Versions of “Remember?”
Be sure to completely remove previous versions of “Remember?” before installing this version. This includes removing the INIT from the System Folder and removing the DA. Use Font/DA Mover if it was installed in the System file or simply remove the file if installed under Suitcase or Font/DA Juggler. Make backup copies of all Remember files including any Occasion Files you have created so that you have something to restore if you should run into problems with the new version. “Remember?” v2.x WILL convert V1.3 files but they will no longer be usable with V1.3 so it is important that you save backup copies!
Be aware that this version has a new occasion file “Holidays” to replace the old “General” file that has better descriptions of most common occasions. If you have been using the “General” file for all of your occasions, you should copy your additions to a new file and trash the old “General” file to avoid possible conflicts or duplication of occasions.
If you are upgrading from any V2 version prior to V2.2.0 you should be sure to remove the old “Remember? Startup” file (the name has been changed to prevent confusion under System 7.)
Do NOT change the name of the Desk Accessory. It must appear in the “apple” menu with the name Remember? in order for it to be auto-run at Startup and from the Pop-up Alert window.
INSTALLATION IS MUCH EASIER OF YOU PRINT THIS FILE AND WORK FROM THE PRINTED COPY!
“Remember?” requires System 6 or later (System 6.0.5 or later is recommended) and works just peachy with System 7. Floppies are OK, but things run faster on a hard disk. Enabling the disk cache helps too.
“Remember? Extension” uses about 9k bytes of System heap space. The pop-up occasion alerts temporarily use a few K of application heap space, plus whatever space is required for the associated sound (long sounds may not play if there is insufficient space). I haven’t experienced any problems related to this temporary use, but it is possible some applications may have difficulties.
NOTE to users with Color systems: Early versions of the file "32-Bit QuickDraw" (version 1.0, 1.1) caused very strange problems for DAs with sub-menus. You should use version 1.2 or later.
••• Attention, Users of Early Versions of “Remember?”
Be sure to completely remove previous versions of “Remember?” before installing this version. This includes removing the INIT from the System Folder and removing the DA. Use Font/DA Mover if it was installed in the System file, or simply remove the file if installed under Suitcase or Font/DA Juggler. Make backup copies of all Remember? files, including any Occasion Files you have created, so that you have something to restore if you should run into problems with the new version. “Remember?” v2.3 WILL convert old files, but they will no longer be usable with the old software, so it is important that you save backup copies!
Be aware that this version has a new occasion file, “Holidays,” to replace the old “General” file, which has better descriptions of most common occasions. If you have been using the “General” file for all of your occasions, you should copy your additions to a new file and trash the old “General” file to avoid possible conflicts or duplication of occasions.
If you are upgrading from any V2 version prior to V2.2.0, you should be sure to remove the old “Remember? Startup” file. (The name has been changed to prevent confusion under System 7.) You may also want to rebuild your desktop files (hold down Option and Command after Restart) to pick up the icons for the new version. This will delete your Finder Comments, however.
Do NOT change the name of the Desk Accessory under System 6. It must appear in the “Apple” menu with the name Remember? in order for it to be auto-run at Startup and from the Pop-up Alert window.
INSTALLATION IS MUCH EASIER OF YOU PRINT THIS FILE AND WORK FROM THE PRINTED COPY!
••• Installation under System 6
(1) Drag the icon for Remember? Extension to your hard disk and drop it into the System Folder.
(2) Install the Desk Accessory Remember? DA using Font/DA Mover as follows:
[a] Double click on the Remember? DA icon. The Font/DA mover will open. Click on the name Remember? in the left window to highlight it.
[b] Click in the right hand Open button and open the file named System in the hard drive’s System Folder.
[c] Click on the “» Copy »” button to copy the DA into the System file. (The button’s arrows should point to the right, the System file.)
[d] Click the Quit button to exit Font/DA Mover and return to the Finder.
(Users of Suitcase™ or Master Juggler™ should follow the instructions provided by those programs for installing new Desk Accessories.)
(3) Click on the “Apple” menu at the left end of the menu bar. You should see Remember? listed among your Desk Accessories. If you are using MultiFinder, you may have to Restart the Mac in order to see it.
(4) Drag the folder named Occasions into the hard drive’s System Folder as well. (You may want to remove Famous BDays to avoid clutter.)
Continue installation at Basic Configuration below.
••• Installation under System 7
(1) Double click on the icon for your hard drive. This should bring its window to the front. You should see a folder named System Folder.
(2) Click on Remember? Extension. Hold down the SHIFT key and click on Remember? DA. Both should now be selected.
(3) Drag both selected files and drop them on top of the System Folder icon. You will be prompted whether you want them placed where they belong. Click OK. This places Remember? Extension in the Extensions folder and copies the DA into the Apple Menu Items folder. Click on the “Apple” menu at the left end of the menu bar. You should now see Remember? listed among your Desk Accessories.
(4) Drag the folder named Occasions into the hard drive’s System Folder. You can put it into the Preferences folder if you don’t want to clutter up the System Folder itself. Actually, you can put it anywhere, even outside of the System Folder, but in that case you will have to manually open the Occasion files in the folder later on. You may want to remove the Famous BDays file from the folder if you do not want its contents to clutter up your occasion lists.
••• Basic Configuration
(5) Select Remember? from the “Apple” menu at the left end of the menu bar. Since this is the first time you have used the DA, it will create a file named Remember?’s Settings in your System Folder (or Preferences folder under System 7) to contain your personal preferences for the package. It will also automatically open all Occasion files contained anywhere within the System Folder or its sub-folders. (This is why we put the Occasions folder there.)
(6) You should now be looking at a dialog box titled “Welcome to Remember?”. Read it and click on Continue when you are ready to go on.
(7) The window titled “Of Interest” is one of the windows you can create through the menu item What’s Happening. It shows you today’s occasions of interest and is probably displaying “Nothing is happening” since the sample Occasion files have only trivial occasions. For now, just position it as you would like to see it appear first thing each morning. You can also press Command - (minus) to turn on its calendar if you like.
(8) When you like what you see, select Default from the Save Windows As sub-menu, and the window will be saved and appear in exactly the same position and size whenever you open the DA. You can go back and change the default windows at any time, but this should get you started until you are more familiar with the package.
(9) Press Command-O to access the Occasion Files… dialog box. It displays the occasion files you are currently using. At this moment you have only the sample files that came with the package. Click on the New… button to create an occasion file to contain your own occasions. The exact name is not important. You can create as many files as you like. Create a Personal file to hold your personal appointments, one named Business for meetings and such, another named Family Stuff for birthdays and anniversaries, or even one named Cosmic JuJu for those all important astrological dates. (“July 24 is a bad day for personal relations and animal trivia contests!”) If you really don’t want to be bugged by all of those silly celebrity birthdays, you can select Famous BDays and click Close to get rid of them.
(10) Press Command-U to visit the Preferences pages. You can set the obvious things right away and leave the more mysterious options alone till you have finished reading the manual. One thing you probably want to change is on the Pop-Up Alerts page. The “current hot key” to view the alert pop-up window is set to Command Option ` (accent), which is a bit obscure. Just press a combination of the Command key, one or more of the Option, Shift or Control keys, and a letter, number or other key which is easy for you to remember. A few possibilities: Command Option space, Command Enter, Command F12 or Command Control Shift Option delete for the more dexterous among us. Be sure to click OK to make the new hot key permanent.
(11) Press Command-Q to quit the DA and return to the Finder.
(12) Select Restart from the Finder menu. Amongst your ICONs at the bottom of the screen during startup, you should see either the “happy” Remember? icon if there are things of interest coming up, or the “sad” face if there is nothing of note. Press your “hot key” to see the pop-up alert window.
You are now all set to add some occasions of your own by opening the DA from the Apple menu and pressing Command-A. Read the section of the DA manual dealing with the Occasion window so that you know how to enter the various fields.
You will probably also want to experiment with the Occasion Types… dialog to customize the Advance Notification for the various types, sound played in the pop-up alert, and appearance of the text in What’s Happening windows. Occasion Types provide a method for grouping related occasions and controlling how they are handled by the package. There are currently thirty-two (32) available types, the names and characteristics of which are totally under your control. Some of the types have predefined behaviors that I have found to be useful. They are not cast in stone; you can change them all. I would suggest not altering the Trivia type since it will be used for all occasion files distributed for general use.
Note that this set of types is shared by all occasion files. The definitions of these types are private to your system. If you give an occasion file to someone, his or her own set of types will be used.
You don’t have to define all the types now. They, as well as each individual occasion’s type, can be changed at any time. Live with the defaults or add a few you need to get started.
You can also extensively customize the color and style of many parts of the package through the Preferences… item. You may need to Quit and reopen the DA to see some of these changes.
Take some time to experiment with all of the menu items and windows to get a good feel for what you can do and how you do it. You can always go back and adjust your configuration as you discover more features.
When you have things set to suit your own personal esthetic sensibilities, it is probably a good idea to save a copy of the “Remember?’s Settings” file and your Occasion folder on a floppy disk as a backup (just in case your spouse/kid/co-worker screws them up by making all the windows black with bright yellow text and 48 point Symbol font).
The “Remember?” configuration file “Remember?’s Settings”
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Take a peek in your System Folder (or Preferences folder under System 7), and you should now see the file Remember?’s Settings. The DA created it to contain your personal preferences. All sorts of strange behavior can result while you are playing with the various options. Don’t panic. You can always throw the settings file in the trash and open the DA to recreate it. You must then visit the Preferences… dialog to get settings back to the way you like them (or replace the settings file with a copy you have previous saved on a floppy).
