Ok, so I am new to symbian S60 and am looking for a good calendar replacement. I rely heavily on my calendar and reminders which is why I would like to see other options out there. What would you recommend?
Also, when clicking on the calendar entries on the idle standby screen, can this be set to take you into 3rd party calendar software?
Failing all else, can tasks be removed from the main calendar as I don't want to see the 30 tasks I have I just want to see my calendar entries?
Thanks
Mark
There are two third party calendar apps for S60 3rd edition: Papyrus (http://www.sbsh.net/products/papyrus/) and AquaCalendar (http://www.pockettorch.net/soft/aquacalendar%20-%20s60v3/aquacalendar%20-%20s60v3_scr.html). Both have their loyal followers.
Personally, my prefered one is Papyrus. It's main strength is its very clean and intuitive UI. It's very configurable too, have a look at its settings dialogs. It used to lag behind AquaCalendar in terms of features but the developer has added a lot of features over the last year and it now has all that most users need I guess.
The last time I looked at AquaCalendar (that was over a year ago), it still had a buttugly, bloated and confusing UI. But it was packed with features. I hear that the developer did work at improving the UI though so it might be worth another look.
You can't set the standby screen calendar plugin to start your third party calendar program though. That's quite annoying but if you add a short cut to your calendar app on the standby screen and remember to use it to start the calendar instead of clicking on the calendar plugin, it's not such a big deal.
You can get Papyrus from here:
http://www.sbsh.net/products/papyrus/
ratza wrote:You can get Papyrus from here:
http://www.sbsh.net/products/papyrus/
Oops, got my URLs mixed up. Thanks ratza, i updated my post.
There's a link to Aqua Calendar here - w w w .allaboutsymbian.com/software/item/AquaCalendar_for_S60.php
I've been trying both Aqua Calendar and Papyrus out for the last couple of days, and I'd take some convincing to go with Papyrus. Aqua Calendar seems to have everything Papyrus has, and more, and takes up a lot less memory when running.
I'm open to persuasion from a Papyrus fan, however, before I put my money down.
AndyM wrote:I've been trying both Aqua Calendar and Papyrus out for the last couple of days, and I'd take some convincing to go with Papyrus. Aqua Calendar seems to have everything Papyrus has, and more, and takes up a lot less memory when running.I'm open to persuasion from a Papyrus fan, however, before I put my money down.
I'm no fan of either but definitely prefer Papyrus. What I'm looking in a piece of software is never the one that has the most features (the most full featured software are rarely the ones that really suit anybody). What I want from a good software is all the features I need, a simple and intuitive UI and a good looking interface (I tend to be quite fussy about UIs; after all, as an end-user, a software is its UI).
Papyrus has all that for me. And the first time I used it, I didn't find myself confused and wondering what button I should press to do something. Everything is well thought and intuitive.
The UI also looks very clean and professional. The developer has obviously spent a lot of time refining it in order to make it pixel perfect. This is the kind of thing I appreciate and value as it demonstrates that whoever developed this is really dedicated has thrown his heart into it in order to make it a truly great piece software.
When I tried Aquacalendar (over a year ago so there might have been improvements), the experience was, well, different. It took some time to get used to the interface which was working in a weird, non-standard way.
But the UI look was the real show-stopper for me. A godawful default color theme, numerous spacing and alignment problems that make the UI look desperately amateurish and on top of all that color gradients thrown all over the place as if the developer thought that the more gradient he put in there the better its UI would look like (wrong, always wrong).
Of course, I probably don't have the same needs and requirements as you do when it comes to software so ultimately, it all up to you.
EpocWare are also currently developing a new Calendar App. See their thread asking for features in the My-Symbian forum http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33904&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
"We are at Epocware about to realease a new app for S60. It's a Calendar. There are few screenshots, so you can see how it will look like. "
Julie
elp wrote:
When I tried Aquacalendar (over a year ago so there might have been improvements), the experience was, well, different. It took some time to get used to the interface which was working in a weird, non-standard way.
I've been looking at the current version, 5.30, and I don't recognise the issues you raise, so I suspect they've fixed some, if not all, of them in the last year.
The size of AquaCalendar is also significant, since on the 5500 memory is at a premium; Papyrus appears to take four times as much when it runs.