ISO a very simple OS X Calendar

[graylocks]

one of my methods for keeping track of my son's homeschool lessons is this very simple calendar program from OS 9. i love it's simplicity. you type in the box on the bottom, hit return and it's entered into the day. no frills. nothing extra to set up and click. easy printing. it's a real beauty.

but since i upgraded to Tiger/Mini, it wreaks havoc with my system. a few months ago i searched tons of shareware and found nothing like it. has anyone seen anything this simple for OS X?

(iCal is indicative of unnecessary hassle for my need. yes, i can enter individual days, but i need to click on each day to see what happened, not get it in a glance like this program.)

[M A V I C]

[quote graylocks](iCal is indicative of unnecessary hassle for my need. yes, i can enter individual days, but i need to click on each day to see what happened, not get it in a glance like this program.)
Sounds like you have it in Day View. Put it in Week View and see if that helps. I have iCal setup so it shows almost exactly what your screenshot does - other than it iCal has colors.

[chas_m]

If you'd just bother to experiment a little with iCal, or perhaps -- GASP! -- skim through the help file, you would find that it is, in fact, as easy to use (if not easier -- I'll wager there's no intelligent "repeating events" ability for example) than your old OS 9 program *and* better/more powerful.

F'instance: can you set up a repeating event that usually happens the third Thursday of each month (though it will move if that date conflicts with a holiday) that emails you and any other parties involved a week before the event AND reminds you with a message (with alarm) the day of the event, AND deletes it's old alarms after they've happened?

Not only can iCal do that, but it can do it by simply typing the event in and clicking a couple of buttons. Total entry time could be as little as 15 seconds for something like that.

Well, now you do. Go learn.

[Grumpyguy]

iCal does the same thing:

Here is my busy social calendar8-)

[graylocks]

If you'd just bother to experiment a little with iCal, or perhaps -- GASP! -- skim through the help file, you would find that it is, in fact, as easy to use (if not easier -- I'll wager there's no intelligent "repeating events" ability for example) than your old OS 9 program *and* better/more powerful.

no, it's not better. i just played with iCal again. to list separate items i have to type command-N. it had better be short or i have to go over to the side panel for text to wrap. with my dinky OS 9 calendar i simply type, hit return for the next line in that day's box and type some more.

there are no repeating events. this is a log i enter each day. i don't know what schoolwork we will or will not accomplish until the day is over.

Week View works a little better but it still takes a bit more manipulation than the task should warrant and i prefer being able to see a month at a time.

for scheduling my own life i'm quite happy with the Palm Desktop software. that doesn't suit my needs for this type of calendar either.

[M A V I C]

[quote graylocks]to list separate items i have to type command-N.
Try clicking & dragging or double-clicking. If you're just putting lists on a calendar, check out OmniOutliner.

[chas_m]

[quote graylocks]Week View works a little better but it still takes a bit more manipulation than the task should warrant and i prefer being able to see a month at a time.
Saying things like this -- which reveal a PROFOUND ignorance about iCal (hint: there IS a month view! By default, even!) -- tells me that you just can't be arsed to really sit down with it or -- gasp -- read the help file. You've pre-determined that you don't like it, and so you ignore features like the LENGTHY notes/comments -- which would give you FAR more room for logging than the OS 9 program did -- and which are visible in month view. The screenshot below might prove it to you, but I'm probably wasting my breath.

There's an old saying: "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink." So I'm done here. Good luck finding a program that just instructs you on its use by telepathy and is intuitively perfect for your needs with no config required.

[graylocks]

oh chas_m , you're such a curmudgeon sometimes. ;-)

iCal is simply overkill for what i need this to do. i did look at month view. i played with the extensive 'notes' section. with my little OS 9 calendar i can notate in each day's square and get a quick, once glance snapshot of what the workload for that month has looked like. it is useful for me to be able to do that.

there are a lot of great calendar apps out there. believe me, i checked out quite a few. there probably isn't much need for something as basic as i'm wanting to do with this old OS 9 app.

[RonT]

Search Version Tracker for a program called "Daytz."
It's about as basic a program as you'll find but, if
I understand your needs, should fill the bill quite
nicely.

RonT

[timg]

Why not just install the developer tools and write your own?