I thought scheduling was pretty neat to, until I tried to get my
companions at work to use it.  They were rarely interested.  And unless
everyone keeps all their schedule on it, no deal.  It was like this in 3
different companies.  Sometimes there is a big gap between neat and
usable.

Florin Iucha wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:34:15AM -0500, Kelly Black wrote:
> > Has anybody out there looked at this one:
> > http://www.r-goetz.de/minkowsky/en/
> >
> > screenshots here:
> > http://www.r-goetz.de/minkowsky/screenshots.html
> >
> > I know it does not run with the mail client (it is a standalone Tcl/Tk app
> > and therefore can run on almost anything with Tcl/Tk and Tix can run on).
> >
> > It looks cool (although only at a 0.51 in the development scheme of things).
> > Changelogs indicate a release on the 10th of this month (June), and some
> > frequent activity since 4/2002, so it seems to be live and active.
> >
> > I would think de-coupling the mail and schedule functions could be a great
> > thing for a company.
> 
> I think not. If you ever used the integration of the mail/address
> book/schedule in Outlook you wouldn't settle for less. You can look at
> your to-do list, decide you need a meeting, retrieve the schedules of
> the attendees and find a good time for all, click a couple of buttons
> and send them the meeting invitation, they click a couple of buttons and
> the meeting place/time is entered in their schedules. Slick.
> 
> I despise Outlook for a bunch of reasons but they got that right.
> 
> florin
> 
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