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Pocket Informant 8

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Timeline View (TLV)


The new Time Line View has been developed to allow several categories to be seen side by side, each on its own time line. It is intended to be used out of the box by some, and with a little setup by others, and is deliberately not limited to use for project management, although as planned features are added it will become a very powerful tool for that purpose. Simply tap on the main screen to choose the categories you wish to display. Each Project Screen can have properties that you can dene such as description and date restrictions which then affect the count and time statistics. Each separate category can also have its own description and date restrictions. Furthermore, performing the tap/hold operation on any category column will let you organize the categories to however you wish. Use the My Views to save the list of categories. The Timeline View has many many uses, which can loosely be split into comparing schedules, and project management:

Comparing Schedules
Time line view can be used to compare many different kinds of schedule. Simply by assigning appropriate categories to each schedule, or diary, they can be viewed alongside each other. Uses depend only on your imagination, but its very powerful whenever you have two distinct set of commitments that may need to be compared. Some examples are: Compare the xture list of several sports teams. Look at your kids after school activities, and see if there are any clashes. View your work commitments compared with your personal ones. Compare your diary with your partners. See your own tasks on a timeline, compared with tasks assigned to others. Include appointments in there too if you want to.

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Project Management
Time Line View is the basis of a powerful project management tool, which will grow over the next few point releases. Project management is not of course limited to just traditional work-related projects, but can be used to describe any related set of events, tasks and more, such as Scouts, a club, or church activity. If your work involves managing several projects at one time, it can be extremely helpful to see how your resources are committed to each as time goes by, allowing you to identify bottlenecks easily. In order to manage projects inside Time Line View, a category must be created for each separate project. The growing list of categories that this may produce can be managed using the category grouping feature of Pocket Informant (for example, put all projects categories into a group called Projects, and as a project is completed, move it to a group called Old Projects, if you want to keep a record. Using a category to identify each project has several advantages: Because categories synchronize to Outlook, you can create and see items relating to each project on the desktop, and apply lters to separate each project out. If you already use categories to separate various parts of your life, as many people do (for example, Scouts and Football, or Church and Family), you are able to use Time Line View out of the box, with no setup other than selecting the categories you want to see. Because many Microsoft Project pocket PC companion applications, such as Pocket Plan, allow projects to be exported to Outlook and be given categories that represent the project, tasks and events can be taken directly from those programs and viewed using Time Line View. This adds a whole new dimension to your ability to plan projects on the pocket PC. Because items like tasks and appointments can be in more than one category, you can continue to use categories as you always did, and still add each item to one or several projects. Using TLV alongside the Month View and using categories allows the power of Pocket Informants lters to be applied to projects. For example, you might want to see, on one line in Month View, all items that relate to Scouts AND Guides, excluding anything that only relates to one or the other while showing a separate comparison between the two in the Time Line View.

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