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Posted by Pavi
May 23, 2012 at 08:25 AM
Hi, I just looked at Watership planner after seeing the post on vertical monitor orientation. I didn’t expect such a polished, functional solution… WOW!
The developer has rewritten the interface since 2008, and Outlook sync for calender items has been added. Through some email with the developer, he explained how to manually sync Outlook tasks, and mentioned that he is creating Outlook buttons to open a mail/task inside Watership. I decided that trying to keep tasks in sync with Outlook to sync to Ultra Recall is simply a waste of time!
The planner provides:
Task manager
Project planner (tied to tasks if desired) - Entire project and milestone progress is shown
Calendar with automated scheduling - Daily and weekly overviews
Personal development - goal planning
Time tracker with comprehensive statistics
The ease of use of these modules and the strong linking of features is a huge strength. I haven’t tested enough for a full review, but I highly recommend this one to be demoed. I was very negative about software that micromanages time, ie. Achieve planner appeared too time consuming and cluttered to use. Watership streamlines the process, and is very intuitive. It also seems to make tracking personal goals and productivity very easy. Everything is customizable, such as views and color coding of various contexts.
I was previously holding on to using Ultra Recall linked to Outlook task folders for task managment and scheduling. Now I realize that a great program like this will enhance productivity greatly, and I feel relieved to abandon trying to keep everything archived in UR. Watership is being activity developed, with many new features rolling out. The only negative is a lack of good documentation, which hopefully will improve as well. A license is also $90 (including 1 year of upgrades, never expires), but you get what you pay for.
In short, this program is something that should appeal to our “community”, and has very strong features and ease of use. I strongly urge everyone to try it!
Best, /Pavi
Graham Rhind wrote:
>The developer has let me know that Outlook syncing is planned.
>
>Graham
Posted by Graham Rhind
May 23, 2012 at 09:50 AM
Thanks Pavi. It’s a bit weird that the developer didn’t think to inform his registered users of the updates - no wonder so much software ends up defunct!
Posted by dan7000
May 23, 2012 at 06:52 PM
Pavi,
How do you manually sync Outlook tasks?
I recently downloaded the new version of WP and was disappointed that it syncs Outlook calendar items but not outlook tasks. Also, am I correct in recalling that notes attached to a task can only be plain text, not rich text? If it had rich text and if I could sync outlook tasks, I would give it another (3rd or 4th) look.
Posted by Pavi
May 24, 2012 at 08:27 AM
Hi,
It seems I misread the mail. He stated that there are two ways to solve this, which could then be implemented. He also said the reason for not syncing tasks is due to mismatches in the fields used. I originally wanted to sync Tasks, since through Outlook I can sync with Ultra Recall and my Android phone. However, now I realize that trying to keep everything synced on my phone all the time is not productive. As far as archiving, he mentions that the SQL database is located under \AppData\Roaming and can be exported to CSV, etc. using other tools.
I don’t see any way to add RTF to tasks, but it might be possible. I personally don’t want to do this, as all my files/work is stored in Ultra Recall. I was attaching everything to project folders and tasks in UR, but it was very time consuming and I am hoping to break from that.
I will notify the developer of this thread as he is more qualified to respond.
Best, /Pavi
dan7000 wrote:
>Pavi,
>
>How do you manually sync Outlook tasks?
>
>I recently downloaded the new
>version of WP and was disappointed that it syncs Outlook calendar items but not
>outlook tasks. Also, am I correct in recalling that notes attached to a task can only be
>plain text, not rich text? If it had rich text and if I could sync outlook tasks, I would
>give it another (3rd or 4th) look.