Brat Factor Planner 1.5.0 Release Notes

The Brat Factor Planner Release Notes have two sections:

  • Useful Features
  • Known Issues

    • Please check both sections for important information about this release of Brat Factor Planner.

    Useful Features

    Brat Factor Planner 1.5.0 includes these useful features:

  • Spoken reminders.
    You can HEAR reminders. (Requires installing the Brat Factor Planner speech components.) The speech components include three computer voices - Microsoft Mary, Mike, and Sam.

  • Launch a linked program automatically.
    You can launch ("perform") a linked file or program automatically from a reminder - without having to click OK in the reminder popup window.

  • Display setup.
    Changes to the display are remembered when Brat Factor Planner restarts.

  • Repeating types.
    You can define tasks that repeat every N days, weeks, months, or years.

  • Task tooltip shows notes.
    You can now see the notes for a task by holding the mouse pointer over the task.

  • Task times shown first.
    Tasks in the Daily Task View and Project View show scheduled times first to make it easy to scan the task list for appointments.

  • Printing.
    Printing the Daily View also prints the notes for each task that has notes.

    • Known Issues

    Brat Factor Planner 1.5.0 has these known issues:

  • No individual repeating tasks.
    In this release, you cannot mark done or delete an individual repeating task. When you mark done or delete a repeating task, ALL instances of the repeating task are deleted or marked done.

  • Printing.
    Printing the Daily View only prints the Daily Tasks List - it does NOT print the appointment grid. You can only print to 8.5 by 11 inch paper. Task colors and icons do not print in this release.

  • All Outlook tasks are imported (including overdue ones).
    Brat Factor Planner imports ALL Outlook tasks that have not been marked done, including all overdue ones. To avoid seeing dozens of old tasks showing up as due today, be sure to delete or mark done all overdue Outlook tasks before importing Outlook data in Brat Factor Planner.

  • Outlook import/export overwriting.
    When the same task exists on both Outlook and Brat Factor Planner, the data that is imported or exported overwrites the existing data, even if the existing data is newer than what is exported or imported.

  • Outlook import limitations.
    Brat Factor Planner correctly imports individual tasks, and tasks that repeat daily, weekly, monthly (by date only), and yearly. However, Brat Factor Planner may not correctly import tasks that repeat weekly or monthly by day of the week (i.e., it may not handle "every third Thursday of the month" correctly, for example).

  • Appointments cannot span midnight.
    If you try to set an appointment that begins before midnight and ends after midnight, Brat Factor Planner will fill the entire day with that one appointment.

  • Tasks cannot be "unscheduled".
    When you give a task a date or time, it becomes a "scheduled" task. It is not possible at this time to unschedule a task (remove either the date or time.)

    If you Ctrl-[drag] (rather than plain drag) a task from the Project View to the Daily, Weekly, or Monthly View, you will have both a scheduled copy of the task and the original unscheduled task in the Project View.

  • Right-click menu and subtasks.
    You cannot use the right-click menu to add a subtask to a scheduled task. You must use the Tasks | Add a Task command or the Add Task icon instead.

  • Palm limitations.
    - Only the Project View and the Daily Tasks List run on the Palm.

    - The Daily Tasks List does *not* integrate with the Palm datebook or to do list, because the ADD Planner supports multiple reminders and the Palm doesn't. (If we integrated them, you would either generate a separate Palm task for each reminder, or the Brat Factor Planner task would lose all but one reminder.)

    - While you can have multiple Brat Factor Planner .bpf files on the PC, only one .bpf file can be sync'ed with the Palm. (See "Palm PDA HotSync Conduit Setup" in the online help for more information.)