From: Douglas Smith 

I liked Sidekick also.  But look at Time & Chaos as a non-Outlook
replacement.  www.chaossoftware.com.

 - Doug.


In article , GaryNOSPAMBritt{at}generalcogster.com says...
> True Sidekick 98 is not the latest available software, but for me it has
> better features and a better looking interface than Outlook 2000 (which I
> also have), I've been using Sidekick since 1994 and before that I used
> sidekick for dos from 1987 to 1993.  It does support some kind of group
> scheduling, but I never used that either.  I think its group scheduling is
> based upon everyone using Sidekick and having internet access.
>
> If I'm mobile and traveling across time zones, just as I said earlier this
> is what I do:  If I'm in Atlanta and schedule a meeting for the next day or
> two weeks from today in San Francisco.  I schedule the meeting based on
> local California Time (the actual time of the meeting in that actual
> location using that locations actual time).  I write down in my calendar,
> "meet with so and so at his office in San Francisco" next to
the appropriate
> line for the local time in California the meeting will take place.  A 9:00
> AM meeting is always 9:00 AM.  When I look at that appointment I know it
> means 9:00 AM California time not 9:00 AM Eastern.  When I'm in California
> and I'm at my hotel looking to see what time I need to get a wake up call, I
> look at my calendar and it says I have a meeting at 9:00 AM at so and so's
> office.  I know that means the same 9:00 AM as everyone else in California
> is on.  Also, when I travel, I immediately change my personal wrist watch to
> whatever local time is.  That way I can use it and plan with it just like
> anyone else around me uses theirs.
>
> I couldn't imagine doing either my Calendar or wrist watch any other way.  I
> can understand that there might be some group situations where somehow this
> isn't optimal, but I don't ever encounter them.  When I worked for a company
> that liked to send out little outlook notices requesting an appointment with
> me.  I would hit confirm or send a reply if there was a conflict, but then I
> would enter the appointment in my Sidekick 98 calendar as I never looked at
> or made any other entries to my outlook calendar.  It didn't take long for
> other senior execs to catch on that "my" outlook calendar
didn't reflect my
> true calendar and only reflected by accident appointments that somebody sent
> me an outlook request appointment message thingy.
>
>
> Gary
>
>
> Rich wrote:
> >    No.  I'm not assuming everyone is on Outlook.  If you look at the
> > iCal standard for exchanging appts you will see that it mandates that
> > some timedate info that is interchanged must be in UTC, others must have
> > a delta from UTC, and some special case for appts in local time no
> > matter where people are.  This strictness with time and time zones is
> > for the same reasons I described.
> >
> >    I wouldn't be surprised if sidekick 98 had no concept of anything but
> > local time.  Not very good for people that are mobile across timezones
> > but it could be OK for simple use.
> >

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