ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) (10/06/85)
Last week I purchased a copy of Sidekick for the Macintosh. The program
includes a telephone book, a daily, weekly, and mothly calendar for appointments
a calculator, an expanded form of the Apple notepad, an automatic dialer ( needs
additional hardware), and a really nice feature called quiksheets. Quiksheets
allows you to set up lists of items and associate some of those items (up to
15) with alarms. When an alarm time has been reached, the Mac beeps and the
Apple icon on the menu bar flashes. YOu must then go into the Sidekick program
and determine what the alarm was for.
I like the product, but have two major problems with it:
1. It is difficult to set up many of the utilities as desk accessories
since you have to do each one individually and the directions are confusing
2. The capacities of most parts of the program are too small. For example
you are limited in effect to three or four appointments for one day since
the calendar entry won't show any more. The phone book entries allow for
only one phone number per person and the company name is limited to 20
characters. The comments about a person are limited to just a few lines
as well. phcalamai@water.UUCP (Paul H. Calamai) (10/13/85)
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