ADD Planner 1.5.0 Release Notes

Please check both sections for important information about this release of ADD Planner.

New/Improved Features

A Daily Plan built into the software

The Daily Plan contains tasks and activities that are known to help ADD people have greater focus. Most tasks include links to the ADD Planner website for more information. You can modify the Daily Plan to match your needs, or include activities from the Daily Plan in your own ADD Planner file.

Tooltips display notes

When you mouse-over a task, the tooltip shows the task name and notes for the task.

Unschedule tasks

You can now clear the date and time fields from a task.

Time advances in the Appointment grid

The time slots displayed in the Appointment grid advance every hour through the day so you always see the current time and next few hours.

Customized program colors

You can now set the colors of the ADD Planner display.

New "Errands" category icon

You can now mark errands with a little red car icon.

Default reminder text

When you add a reminder, the default reminder text is the task name.

New Outlook import filter

When you import tasks from Outlook into ADD Planner, you can now specify the date before which no Outlook data is imported.

New repetition options

You can now set tasks to repeat every n number of days/weeks/months/years.

PDA synchronization

The default PDA synchronization directory for both Pocket PC and Palm is now My Documents. You can only synchronize one ADD Planner .apf file to a PDA.

Improved online help

The online help has been reorganized to make it easier to use.

Printable ADD Planner help manual

ADD Planner help is now available as a printable manual. The file is Planner.pdf, located in Program Files\Wolf in the Moon Software\ADD Planner\Planner.pdf.

Known Issues

Unschedule

The Unschedule button clears the Date, Start Time and End Time fields. If the task had been previously saved, it will now appear only in the Project View (whether it was originally created in the Project View or not). However, if the task is a repeating task, it will continue to be shown in the Daily Tasks List and Project View as a repeating task.

Outlook import/export overwriting

When the same task exists on both Outlook and ADD Planner, the data that is imported or exported overwrites the destination data, even if the destination data is newer than what is exported or imported.

Outlook import limitations

ADD Planner correctly imports individual tasks, and tasks that repeat daily, weekly, monthly (by date only), and yearly. However, ADD Planner may not correctly import tasks that repeat bi-weekly or monthly by day of the week (i.e., it may not handle "every third Thursday" correctly, for example).

Appointments cannot span midnight

If you try to set an appointment that begins before midnight and ends after midnight, ADD Planner will fill the entire day with that one appointment.

Right-click menu and subtasks

You cannot use the right-click menu to add a subtask to a scheduled task. You must use the Tasks | Add a Task command or the Add Task icon instead.

Weekly task filtering on a PDA

When showing the Tasks lists on a PDA, the weekly filter option does not work correctly. You must use the monthly filter option to filter out tasks that repeat weekly.

Palm OS update

If you install ADD Planner 1.5.0 for Palm OS over an earlier version, you should click "Yes to All" when asked if you want to replace an existing file with one from ADD Planner 1.5.0. There are two files that are replaced; the second "old" file appears to be identical to the second "new" file. However, if you choose to replace the first file and not the second file, you may see the surprising error message "ADD Planner for Palm OS 1.5.0 should cause errors." (No, it shouldn't.)

Palm limitations

Only the Project View and the Daily Tasks List run on the Palm.

The Daily Tasks List does *not* integrate with the Palm datebook or to do list, because the ADD Planner supports multiple reminders and the Palm doesn't. (If we integrated them, you would either generate a separate Palm task for each reminder, or the ADD Planner task would lose all but one reminder.)

Only one .apf file can be sync'ed with the Palm. (See "Palm PDA HotSync Conduit Setup" in the online help for more information.)