Introduction of How to use eReminder

eReminder is a full-featured
multi-resource calendar application designed specifically for planning,
managing, and scheduling your important dates and times. It supports to view the
schedules of several resources at the same time, and lets you find out what
everyone's schedule is for the day, find out which of your company's conference
rooms is free at a specific time, or find out which cars of your clients are
scheduled to wash next time.

eReminder runs in the background, sits in
the system tray, and makes it nearly impossible to forget birthdays,
anniversaries, holidays, appointments, meetings, and other important events.
What's more, it provides plenty of reminding ways: play music, execute
application, send Email, speak the notification content, pop up a talking agent,
reboot PC, etc.

In addition to one-time occurrences,
eReminder keeps track of all types of recurring events, from birthdays to
meetings that you have on the third Friday of every other month. It allows you
to view all your events in a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly overview and
supports to-do lists. You can get a quick look at the events of a single day in
any calendar view. Drag&drop and copy&paste features allow you to easily
reschedule events, or change their duration.

eReminder provides an easy way to share
your data with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Project/Project Server and Intuit
QuickBooks, and powerful print function to present your calendar. Moreover, you
can manage your holidays, and add them to your calendar. You can also use
display-private/all-filter to filter appointments displayed in calendar. When
have finished an appointment, you can flag it with completion. When you have a
lot of appointments in calendar, marking those appointments complete can give
you a clear view of which appointments you still have and which appointments you
have finished, and let you have full control of your time.

Use talking agent as a reminder way

eReminder comes with a cast of characters
including Peedy, Merlin, Genie, and Robby.

If you specify Popup an agent as a
reminder way, then a Microsoft Agent will pop up and read the notification when
the appointment/task is due.

• To specify talking agent for a task:
  In the New Task Entry/Edit Task Entry dialog, click Reminder
  button and then select the notification method: Popup an agent in
  the dialog.
  
• To specify talking agent for an
  appointment: In the New Appointment Entry/Edit Appointment Entry
  dialog, click Reminder button and then select the notification
  method: Popup an agent in the dialog.
  

Note:

• If you did not install Microsoft Agent
  Engine, the item of Popup an agent can not be selected.
  
• Please refer to
  www.eTimeInc.com or
  Plug-in
  homepage about the engine.

Use calendar to schedule dates and times for your family members

Use calendar to schedule dates and times for your family members

Use calendar to record your work log

Besides scheduling your important dates & times,
you can also use eReminder to record your work log. After you have
finished one work or task, you can enter it in scheduler area directly.
For those work or tasks you need do periodically, you can also specify them as
recurring events in Recurrence Pattern, which frees you from typing them
periodically in scheduler area.

You can filter display in Calendar

A filter is an easy way to view only those items
assigned to Item Types you specify. For example, you can filter all Birthdays
and Anniversaries to see only items of these item types. All of the other items
can be seen again by removing the filter.

For tasks, there is one filter for grid, while
for calendar, there are two filters. One is for grid, and the other is for
scheduler. When switch to Day/Week/Month/Year view, you can use the
filter of scheduler. In the scheduler of calendar, you can
specify:

• Display all events: Displays all events in
  Calendar.


• Display not private events: Does not display
  private events in Calendar.


• Display private events: Only displays private
  events in Calendar.

When finish a task/appointment, you can mark complete it

Mark complete is a special function of
eReminder. When a task or appointment is finished, you can flag it by
marking complete. This utility will give you a clear view to identify which
appointments/tasks have been done and which appointments/tasks you still have.

• To mark complete an appointment
  
• Select View->Current View->Day/Week/Month/Year,
  move mouse to the appointment you want to mark complete, right-click your
  mouse, and then select Mark Complete item in the context menu. The
  appointment you selected will be marked with completion flag.
  
• Or double-click the appointment you want to
  mark complete, in the Edit Appointment Entry dialog, click the
  Mark Complete button. The appointment you selected will be marked with
  completion flag.
  
• To mark complete a task
  
  
• Select a task and right-click your mouse,
  then select the Mark Complete item in the context menu. The selected
  task will be marked with completion flag.
  
• Or double-click the task you want to mark
  complete, in the Edit Task Entry dialog, click the Mark Complete
  button. The task you selected will be marked with completion flag.