When was the last time you…? The Tracker knows!
When was the last time you had a haircut or all of them cut? When was the last time you changed your oil? When was the last time you bought Palm software? All these questions and more can be answered if you had a place to track periodic events. This is another “oldie but goodie and sometimes hard to find thee” program. You can add notes next to each dated entry and even copy the note from the last event if what you will want to write won’t be that much different. I have this software on my palm right now. I had a hard time finding it on Palmgear though, so my recommendation is that you enter “claude elie” as the search term. Claude elie is the name of the developer. There are some programs that do the same thing at a price but this one does the job for free. Enjoy.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Thank you so much for the tip about “The Tracker.” What a great product. Here’s how I use it: I make greeting cards on my computer and send them to various elderly relatives and chronically ill people. I like to do this regularly, but sometimes my busy schedule gets in the way. In my Getting Things Done implementation, I didn’t have a good way to track this - there was lots of manual intervention.
I set up items in The Tracker for each person I send to, with the maximum days I want to wait before sending another card. (This is different for different people.) If I send cards with more frequency than that, so much the better, and the clock starts ticking again each time I log an instance. But if i go past the scheduled time, I get a reminder, which is just what I need!
Thanks again, and thanks to Claude elie for making such a great program available free.
Leti
April 7th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
This software is OK, but the best software by far for keeping track of what you have done and what you need to do is the wonderful and free program BlueMoon. It’s on palmgear.com. I don’t know if there are any problems running it on newer devices, but it is well worth a try - the number of features, ease of use, and elegance are exceptional. I tell all my friends with palm OS devices about this amazingly useful software.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
How right you are George. I remember Blue Moon very well and would have actually preferred it but your are right I was thinking about software compatibility on this one. However, thank you for making this known to those of us who may use older software.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Leti, your post is quite inspiring. I love the way you can remind all of us how software like this can be use to improve our relationships.
You have created the possibility of this being used for relationship management even when it was not specifically meant for that and that is most likely because you are led by your heart as well as your head.
Thank you for your contribution.