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Calendar on Today question.

How do I make only the next upcoming appointment show up under calendar on the Today page? Right now it's showing past appointments and also recurring appointments (appts that occur once each week)..which I'd like to get rid of also.
thanks for any help. If needed I will attach a screenshot of my Today screen if you don't fully understand.
--Jack
*forgot..using Cingular 8125 with WM2005 stock..no other apps installed and using the newest upgraded Cingular ROM...

Not sure how is your problem, but the built in plugin sux terribly.
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=55296&highlight=

Thanx..I checked it out but for some reason it's still showing mult-day appts and past appts. even tho I un-checked them... :shock:

Thanx..I checked it out but for some reason it's still showing mult-day appts and past appts. even tho I un-checked them... :shock:

why dont you use spb diary, its not free but its worth the money.

Calendar Software Tools : Which is easiest on my memory ?

I have found for WM5 for calendar, contacts and tasks.
Pocket Informant : http://www.pocketinformant.com/index.php
Agenda Fusion : http://www.developerone.com/agendafusion/index.htm
Super Calendar : http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/sc_overview.html
I am currently using the today Plugin for calendar and tasks "Today Agenda" (http://tiews.info/index.php?show=software/todayagenda&lang=en) which is compatible with Informant and Agenda. I have not tested it with Super Calendar yet.
Questions :
1) Calendar tool with least memory stamp ?
2) Least buggy ?
3) Which is BEST ?
Other tools found:
Calendar Today Plugin: http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10
Calendar Today bar: http://www.omegaone.com/pocketpc/calendarbar.html
Today Task plugin: http://software.forest59.com/taskplus.aspx
Financial Economic Data into Calenda (USA Only)
http://www.syncpak.com/aboutus.html

Re: Calendar Software Tools : Which is easiest on my memory
Digs said:
I have found for WM5 for calendar, contacts and tasks.
Pocket Informant : http://www.pocketinformant.com/index.php
Agenda Fusion : http://www.developerone.com/agendafusion/index.htm
Super Calendar : http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/sc_overview.html
I am currently using the today Plugin for calendar and tasks "Today Agenda" (http://tiews.info/index.php?show=software/todayagenda&lang=en) which is compatible with Informant and Agenda. I have not tested it with Super Calendar yet.
Questions :
1) Calendar tool with least memory stamp ?
2) Least buggy ?
3) Which is BEST ?
Other tools found:
Calendar Today Plugin: http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10
Calendar Today bar: http://www.omegaone.com/pocketpc/calendarbar.html
Today Task plugin: http://software.forest59.com/taskplus.aspx
Financial Economic Data into Calenda (USA Only)
http://www.syncpak.com/aboutus.html
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Only one I can comment on is Agenda Fusion.
I ditched it after taking far too long to open upwards of 5secs - and was too much to bear if needing a quick TODAY check or quick "Need a phone number" fix.
I also disagreed with the fact I paid for v7 and then had to pay an upgrade fee for v8 that "apparently" solved some compatibility issues with WM5.
Havent tried any of the others - sorry.
Matt

Sometimes when the TODAY AGENDA is Running and I change My TODAY SCREEN (wallpaper) The Aganda goes into "Updating" mode and does not update itself for a long time.
The other features work perfectly all right . It is just This Agenda which does Not show any entry.
I have tried HARD RESETTING the device and Fixing The Today agenda Right in the beginning.
The problem is STILL there.
ANY SUGGESTION?

I use the in-build PIM and SPB Diary as today plug-in. Very stable and surprisingly fast. Since most of my calendar/task/mails are now done on the today plug-in, which PIM to use at the back does not bother me anymore. SPB Diary can be installed in external storage hence save on the internal memory.

Depending on how heavy your schedule is.
I've used `Pocket Informant` before and its layout and stuff are pretty good. I came from a Palm5 device and if you heard, Palm5 agenda stuff are pretty impressive and this Pocket Informant is almost as good.
However, Pocket Informant is relatively slow on startup (not much on a memory issue, just start up). However, once you got it started up and sitting on your taskbar, you can access it instantly. I would recommend that if you have heavy schedule.
For my case, I use Pocket Breeze together with the built-in PIM (of WM5). Since I have `medium weight` schedule, I'm pretty happy with PBreeze on my Today screen. Since I can set PBreeze to display my stuff appearing 7 days in advance, I don't usually go into the built-in PIM to check on my stuff. PBreeze has also direct links to your appointment/task for which you can then edit them. And I have the WM5-new-menu program that can create new task/appt easily, I hardly use any sort of PIM (e.g. Pocket Informant).
Anyway, these software has trial period, give it a go and see if you like it.

hanmin said:
Depending on how heavy your schedule is.
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Well frankly speaking My Schedule on Appointments is Not so heavy, Just 3-5 entries a day.
Yes I have tried SPB diary But SINCE MY ADDRESS BOOK has 2800 or more Contacts that does take time to load up...
I have tried A New software (FREEWARE) Calender Plus the Link of which I got from here only and thats just working Fine Now...

Calendar Today Plugin: http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10

I have tested Super Calendar and Agenda Fusion.
Agenda seams to much calendar for me.
Supper Calenda is lite. It enhances the Month and Year view compared to the WM5 standard calendar. Does not do tasks or contacts.
Todays Agenda is the BEST today plugin, and seams to work ok with Super Calenda.
I have found Ulti Planner at : http://www.birdsoft.biz/upmain.htm
which is lite on memory and covers calendar, tasks, contacts. Also has text in month view.

MDA Vario II - no reminders

I use a MDA Vario II (from t-mobile) and, begining with a couple of days before, I get no reminders to appointments anymore. I suspect that it is happening since I have instaled PocketBreeze 5.0.11, but i am not sure that PocketBreeze is the cause.
Does anybody else face the same problem? What can be done, except a hard reset (I am not so thrilled by the ideea to install everything again)?

Have you tried checking your notification queue for duplicates and/or out of date entries.
You can try scarybear checknotifications, memmaid or sk tools for this (prob there are others too)
Try this first, see if there are any duplicates or out of date entries. Delete all these, soft reset and then try again. Don't delete anything if you don't know what it is (unless it comes up under duplicates).
I use a combination of the above tools as I find that they often find dups or out of date entries that the others miss. Try checknotifications first (free), and see if this helps.

Hello marisa,
thank you for the hint, it seems to be working now. To be true, I already bought SKTools yesterday, because I found some other post with a similar problem. But I only ran the "Invalid Registry Entries" and "Invalid Registry Values" utilities, being afraid to delete anything. But after your post I ran the "Notification Queue" utility and checked all entries that refer CALENDAR.EXE And for all birthdays there were duplicates.
How do they got there? I initially synchronized the calendar in my old PalmVx with the Outlook (there I had the birthdays as normal appointments, not in contacts). Than connected my MDA per USB and ActiveSync to my PC. I manually inserted all the birthdays in the Outlook's contacts, causing Outlook to automatically create a duplicate "all day event". Than I deleted the birthday appointments which I get from the old PalmVx. In all of this time my MDA was automatically synchronizing with Outlook, so practically when I deleted the entries, they also were deleted from the MDA's calendar.
Now the question: since Outlook, ActiveSync and Windows Mobile are all Microsoft products, why weren't the duplicates also deleted from the Notification Queue? Why the garbage that needs to be cleaned with 3rd party tools and hours of searching posts on forums? Whatever.
Thank you again anyway!
PS: so PocketBreeze was not the cause.

They don't call it Active Stink for nothing you know!
Regarding Pocket Breeze, Spb Diary, Ilauncher and Pocket Plus, I don't know if these have anything to do with the problem.
I would say they must do, as most of these problems seem to occur when or shortly after people have installed one or any of them (or similar).
However, there are some people who get these problems with just the standard pre-installed software.
I personally think it's the interaction of Activesync, the native operating system and these today plugins which sets up something unexpected.
It could also be that people install both (many versions) of one of these in order to compare them, and decide which to buy, and they interfere with each other.
I have even had both version installed at the same time (but only one activated) for quick comparison. So, it's really hard to apportion blame for this. The other day I actually had to remove 2 identical templates, which had the date 2999! How's that for weird?
Never mind. All's well now, and that's the main thing.

Hmm, i must say that PocketBreeze was installed while I was performing the previously described birthday synchronisations. Whether it had any blame - I don't know. Uninstalling PocketBreeze was the first thing to do by trying to solve the problem, didn't help, the damage was already done. What I know is that I will install it again, because it sure gives me a much nicer overview. And that I will watch the Notification Queue closely from nowone

billl said:
What I know is that I will install it again, because it sure gives me a much nicer overview.
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I don't think Pocket BReeze is related to my problem with appointments and alarms, I've had it installed all along and the problem only started very recently.

marisa4755 said:
I use a combination of the above tools as I find that they often find dups or out of date entries that the others miss. Try checknotifications first (free), and see if this helps.
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I'm using MemMaid but I'm still a bit confused about the entries that appear in the notification queue.
Can I safely delete any entries that relate to calendar entries in the past without this actually deleting it from the calendar itself?
Also, I have a load of entries in the queue that start:
\\.\Notifications\NamedEvents\SCRIPT:0x0
The detail for these shows a date and a (fairly random) time. Most are in the future (and generally in the early hours of the morning.)
Can anyone tell me what these entries are?
thanks
Mark

Markmat
I'm no expert, but my rule of thumb is:
If I don't know what it is/does then I leave it alone.
there is quite a bit of 'stuff' that has to run at various times to make the system run properly - that's when these phantom notifications are supposed to get cleared up, but don't. So, leave these alone.
Regarding the calendar entries, it's just the notifications which come up under memmaid's notfications check. So, if 3 months ago you had a dentist appointment and set the reminder for this to a day before say, and for some reason that notification didn't get dismissed and now you see it in memmaid, you can delete this. It won't delete the appointment, just the notification which is of no use to you now anyway and is confusing your system.

Bill, I think I know what happened with your duplicate birthday stuff.
Are you using Pocket Informant? or another 3rd party diary application? Maybe even Pocket Breeze itself.
Basically, I think you have 2 applications creating calendar events from contact birthdays. One is Outlook, the other is one of the ones I've mentioned. The solution is to turn it off on one or the other.

I already solved my problem by deleting the double entries in the Notification QUeue.
I was using PocketBreeze. I currently uninstalled it, but I will install it again and test your theory.
What do you mean by turning Outlook off? I use the Outlook on my PC to create appointments and I expect ActiveSync to upload them on the MDA by synchronization, even if the one managing them there is PocketBreeze. And backwards, when I create them with PocketBreeze on the MDA - i expect them to be downloaded on my PC by synchronisation.
Do you mean that there is also the preinstalled so called Outlook Mobile on my MDA which conflicts with PocketBreeze? Shouldn't this be the main concern of the PocketBreeze developers, to ensure that their software is not producing redundant double entries?
Anyway, if you mean turning off the preinstalled Outlook Mobile on the MDA, how exactly should I do it, where do I find this setting?

Sorry Bill, I haven't been very clear.
I think there is a special extra function in Outlook and also at the same time in some of these other pocket pc diary applications which create birthday calendar entries from contacts.
I am fairly certain that Pocket Informant does.
I am not suggesting that you don't sync with Outlook, just that one of the third party applications may be creating a duplicate using this extra function and so is outlook.
In Pocket informant there is an option to turn this extra function off, so then you only get the outlook ones. Hope that explains better.

Added:
In the Pocket Informant manual it explains this quite well when discussing options:
Apply Contact Birthday/Anniversaries
If you save anniversary and birthday information with your contact data, this option can read and enter the events into your calendar for you. However, because Outlook will do the same, it is recommended that you leave the option turned off if you synchronize with Outlook, in order to
avoid duplicates or performance issues.

Nothing to be sorry about
I understand now what you mean, thank you for the explanations. I will search the PocketBreeze's options for a similar setting.
And probably I will take a look at the PocketInformant too.

WM5 Calendar - Active Appointements

Hi,
I am running Windows Mobile 5 (on a HTC P3600).
On the calendar, is there a way of way of displaying "Active Appointements"
as there is with Outlook 2003 which I run on my Desktop PC and sync to?
If there isn't, does this feature exist in Windows Mobile 6?
I think this feature is a must have. Without it how do you have a snapshot
look at all your approaching appointments? It would take an age to keep scrolling the days.
If its in WM6 I will upgrade
Thanks

Also WM5 calendar doesnt look great with reminding, e.g. only 15, 30, 45mins etc.
What if I want to be reminded 7days in advance so I can buy a gift or send a card. Is this feature in WM6? Or do I have to buy another calendar program? And if so, whats the best one. Nice and simple but functional with not too many bells and whistle.
Thanks again!

You really need Pocket Breeze from SBSH, or SpB Diary.
Both are Today plug-ins that have tabs for the views you want.

I use TodayAgenda on my Trinity. It is a great calender program and you can customize it pretty much to any settings you want. It is also free, so that is nice.

Thanks guys.
For the 3 programs you hav mentioned, do all of them all me to set extended reminders for appointments, say a birthday. Or am I restricted to 15, 30, 45min etc.
Also, which one is the best?
Thanks

Also, if I already have reminders set up on my Outlook 2003 calendar on my desktop pc, say 7days before an appointment, will these settings carry over onto the new plugin program when I sync up? Or is that a step too far?
I would prefer a program that reads my desktop Outlook settings.
Does anyone know?
Thanks.

TBH, I don't know about whether Outlook reminders carry across. I would suppose no, because all the add-on programs still use the underlying Pocket Outlook engine/data.
Pocket Breeze and SpB Diary are both availble as trials, so it may be worth playing. PB is more configuarble, but Diary has a slightly better interface.
Both have a Special tab for recurring events like birthdays, and can be set to display any time in advance. I think they can be set to place the special event on the main diary tab at configurable intervals- 1 day, 3 days, 1 week etc, but I don't know about audible reminders.

Thanks Neil.
Am, I also right in thinking that the calendar in WM6 doesn't offer the reminder functionality that I need?
Ta

powerbook said:
Thanks Neil.
Am, I also right in thinking that the calendar in WM6 doesn't offer the reminder functionality that I need?
Ta
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I've just looked in my Calendar and in fact it does do what you want- this is WM6, but I'd be surprised if WM5 wasn't the same
Open Calendar and go to the day you want to set the Event. Select the time, All Day, etc, then set 'Occurs' box to whatever is the appropriate interval.
Now tap Reminder, and set to Remind Me.
Once that is set, you can tap the left box below to set the integar, and the right box to set Minutes, Hours, Days or Weeks.
So, your example of a reminder 7 days before the event is easy. Hope this works in WM5

powerbook said:
Also WM5 calendar doesnt look great with reminding, e.g. only 15, 30, 45mins etc.
What if I want to be reminded 7days in advance so I can buy a gift or send a card. Is this feature in WM6?
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This feature exists even in WM5. See the second tab of the calendar settings.

Thanks guys. This reminder feature does work. I will check tonight whether the setting from Outlook 2003 come across in the sync (I'm guessing that they will).
Just a shame you cant see a list of all approaching appointments. That's a feature that I *do* want.

monthly calendar Today Plugin with appointments?

Is there a Today plugin will display the monthly view of a calendar with color coding or other indicators for appointments for each day?
I know rltoday can display a monthly calendar but last I check it doesn't have any way of signifying if there is an appointment for that day.

dunno if I understood your request, but I use SPB Diary

not sure about a plugin that can just display the monthly view... but I do know that tapping the calendar icon in Pocketbreeze will popup a month calendar that shows dots for appointments.
Sorry, that is about as much help as I can be.
SoBBie

PocketBreeze has a 'pinned' calendar and a pop-up calendar. The pinned calendar shows the entire month on the Today Screen, but does not show the appointment timeslots on the calendar.
The pop-up calendar will show the timeslots, but it's only displayed when you select it.
In my screen captures, I have iLauncher at the top and PocketBreeze below.
Most of my appointments are 'free' so they don't display on the pop-up calendar.
Maybe someone in the SBSH PocketBreeze forum will know more about the product. http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showforum=7

I am looking for a plugin that displays the monthly calendar with some sort of coding (different color, etc.) that tells me when I have an appointment at a quick glance. But I wanted this on the today screen, without having to press anything to pop up. It doesn't have to show as much detail as that pop up calendar on pocketbreeze, but maybe just to le tme know that I have something going on that day displayed as a different color.

How's your Japanese?
This super-small plug-in does what you want I think. It gives you a calendar on your today screen and adds a plus next to any day you have appointments.
Problem is that it is only in Japanese. However, the options on it are very minimal and if you play with it a little then you can know what all the menus are saying without actually being able to read them.

How's your Japanese?
Double-posted so I'll slide you a screenshot. The screenshot is old, but it works on WM6 - I just tested it.

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Double-posted so I'll slide you a screenshot. The screenshot is old, but it works on WM6 - I just tested it.
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Anyway to have it translated?

Someone posted earlier an alpha version of a new app they made that I believe is a plugin let me check

Not easily. At least, not easily for me.