A better Calendar? Papyrus put to the test

I can give you an example. The Beaconsfield farmers' market is on the third Saturday in the month. You just can't set this up in S60 calendar (not my version anyway), despite the fact that it was simplicity itself on a Psion. You can do it with Papyrus, although it's not particularly intuitive.

Just wanted to add in my two cents regarding why Papyrus takes up 1.4 MB of space. The reason for that is that we've added both low-res and high-res category icons to the OS 9.1 version of Papyrus as well as the professional icons used in the "New/Edit Item" dialog - all of which take up around 300Kb of space but are well worth the extra bulk 😊

Regarding the tasks view - I wanted to update everyone that we are also working on adding a new tasks view to Papyrus which we hope to have implemented ASAP 😊

Other than that - thanks for the great review! :tongue:

Don't you think what it will be much more usefull to compare Papyrus with AquaCalendar for S60v3? More choice always good thing!

Or this is "exclusive" review?

Yes, Ewan's next task (fx: cracks whip) is to review AquaCalendar. Watch this space....

(We had to one of the two first and Papyrus seemed the be by far the most active in terms of new versions and improvements....)

Steve

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Valentin

I must confess the biggest annoyance to me since switching from Palm to Symbian with the P800 has been the failure of Tasks to syncronise categories with Outlook. I have yet to find a program that can do this.

Is it that hard to program?

If the database/storage format on the devic does not have support (fields/attributes) for categories (for tasks, calendar appointments or contacts), how would it be handled?

That is, it is not only about synchronizing categories with some sort of app, if there's no place where to save the categories info on the device in the first place. In that case you also might have to redo the whole device based app to use something else than the built-in databases/"engines". (I don't know if Papyrus or AquaCalendar use the built-in calendar database, or if they have their own entirely.)

Now that would be a true service to the readership!

I tried Papyrus and I thought it was slow and a little clunky, plus, it made my brand harry spankers Nokie E61 look like a Windows device. What an insult!

I've long been an Aquacalander user and although it has had some rough patches, Valentin has worked his spuds off to get what is a rather good implementation and that is what I use, plus, it doesn't make my phone look like its been posessed by an evil spirit 😉

Oh, oh, oh, and it has a TARDIS category icon built in!

Conversely, I tried AquaCalendar and found it to be a nightmare. The interface of Papyrus is far neater, intuitive and user friendly, with a very nice switch between clean looking, higly informative Day, Week and Month Views.

chrsfrwll If you have some time, PM me what is so "nightmare" you found in AquaCalendar. What is your phone and AquaCalendar version was?

Does it sync calendar entry "notes" (in Outlook, you can attach comments to calendar entries; in Lotus Notes, these comments can be rich text)? The 2nd to last picture in the review seems to imply it can (the "aa.com" text). This would be a great feature over the standard calendar which can't do this, at least on my Nokia 6620.

Ditto what other folks said about Tasks/To-Do's. Those should be sync'd but aren't in PC Suite.

Sounds like the Papyrus folks should release low-res and high-res versions of their app if that's why it's 1.4MB 😊

And, dare I ask, do either of them sync to Mac OS X - with or without the various plug-ins?