From: Douglas Smith 

I used Sidekick on and off for a couple of years, then I switched to the
Palm devices and the Palm Desktop.  I toyed with T&C (and their email
prduct)for a few years in the interim, but they make it difficult (for me
anyway) to import from the Palm Desktop that I put it off until last year
when they came out with an improved tool.  Also they have a
"portable" version that you can run from a USB key and also from
the web (paid hosting version).

 - Doug.

In article , GaryNOSPAMBritt{at}generalcogster.com says...
> I looked at time and chaos screen shots a few years ago.  It seemed like a
> good program, but I didn't look as good or better than Sidekick For Windows
> (at least for me anyway).  What do you like about it over Sidekick?  How
> long did you use Sidekick?  Which version?
>
> Gary
>
> Douglas Smith wrote:
> > 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.
> >>

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