What's New in PIMple 3.0!

• Now schedules and reschedules repeating meetings and events! (The scheduling code has been almost completely rewritten to be able include these features.)
  • Reschedules all future items the way you expect it to! (See Rant below)
  • Delete one, all or all future item!
• Tapping on a birthday or anniversary will also tell you the age of the person or anniversry! (No more embarrassing age mistakes at the party! )
• New package icon (see above).
• For Mac users: nice manual made with eDOC!
• First update in 2 years! (And they say now more Newton software is being updated!)

Rant: How PDA's (do not) handle repeating appointments!
The following is a rant on how PDAs mess up repeating appointments! This is from PIMple's Read Me file but I felt it was important enough to bear repeating (pun intended) here!

None of the PDAs I have tried handles rescheduling all future items well. Neither do any third party PIMs - Except a Newton equipped with this version of PIMple!!
I teach violin lessons. Each student comes once a week on a specified day and time. Due to some other activity, a student often will need to change all of his/her future lessons to a different day and/or time. So let's say Grace's lesson was on Mondays at 3pm and now needs to be on Tuesdays at 4pm.

Try this on any PDA: Schedule Grace's old lesson time as a weekly repeating meeting. Go to some future lesson of Grace's and try to change All Future meetings to her new time. Sounds simple, right? Give it a try - it just doesn't work!
You end up having to stop Grace's meeting to a week earlier, then create a new repeating meeting for her new time. And you also have to clean up all those rogue meetings that were created trying to reschedule the item! For me this is the most aggravating thing to do when I use my Newton (or Palm, or WindowsCE)! The PalmOS sort of handles this but it isn't intuitive.

Well, the new version of PIMple FINALLy resolves this. I've been wanting this feature on my Newton since day one of getting it (back in the MP110 days)! I can't tell you how much easier rescheduling students have been since adding this feature.
Here's how to reschedule all of Grace's future lessons:

1. Bring up the appointment you want the changes to start from.
2. Select a new date and/or time. Don't forget to change the ending date if you are moving the appointment to a different day.
3. Tap the "Change" button.
4. Up pops a slip from which you may choose "One" or "Future". Tap "Future" and that's it!

But you say, "That's almost exactly what I did in the Dates app or other PIM!" The difference here is that PIMple reschedules the appointment the way you'd expect it to: All future really means All future, whether you change the date, time or both, even the repeat type (every day, every week, etc.).


What PIMple does when rescheduling a repeating meeting
When you reschedule a repeating meeting in PIMple, it will ask you to do it for one meeting or all future meetings. For all future meetings, PIMple will:

1. Set the meeting to stop at its previous date.
2. Create a new repeating meeting with the same criteria as the original.

Basically what you had to do before, but in one feel swoop and the process is completely transparent to the user. PIMple also tries to retain info such as meeting notes, invitees, location. The new meeting is not related to the previous meeting in any way - it is an entirely new repeating meeting.
Due to their linking features, I don't know how this works with third party PIMs such as MoreInfo or Dateman. If anyone out there can try it out let me know how PIMple fares!

Thanks for listening to my craziness! Try out PIMple here!