WinToday help file

Created by A.J. Gregory for GregorySoft.

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WinToday Help Contents

WinToday Introduction

How it all started: The inspiration for WinToday is the old DOS TODAY program that I used for years in the early PC days (In fact there may even have been a CP/M version . . that's too far back to remember). When Windows hit I continued to use TODAY since I had years worth of historical data stored. Soon TODAY was the very last DOS program on my hard drive. The Windows applications were getting very good, very graphic and very much making TODAY look more and more clunky. Wouldn't it be great if there was a Windows interface I could use to display my TODAY data? I mentioned over and over again to my son Arthur who is majoring in Computer Engineering at the Unversity of Washington. On Christmas 1996 he surprised me with a diskette marked "WinToday." That was Beta version #1. Since then many improvements have been added and a many bugs have been worked out.

What it is: WinToday is a shareware Windows desktop program which displays important events and reminders for the day in an easy-to-export manner. Plus you can enter, via the toolbar, any other date to display the important events for that day. We supply you with thousands of historical dates and birthdays and, of course, you can easily add and delete from this data base.

What it is not: WinToday is not freeware. It's shareware. Free to try it out for 30 days; if you like it, send us $15 and you can continue to use it. If unregistered after 30 days WinToday will not navigate to any other day except the current date. Plus WinToday's execution will be delayed 30 seconds on your 30th day of use and the delay will increase one second per day there after.

WinToday has withstood the test of time. For years friends and family members have used WinToday many times a day. I think you will find it very useful.

What you get: Although WinToday comes with over 7,500 historical dates, it is by no means suppose to be an all inclusive history of humankind. The database is merely a startup collection of ecletic events and birthdays. And, in the way of a disclaimer, we don't 100% guarentee the veracity of information supplied.

In other words, we supply the delivery vechicle and collection of historical events to get you going. It's up to you to fine tune the collection with additions and deletions. That what we do on a daily basis.

	Move to another date. Enter month and day in the "Enter Date" boxes and click the yellow sun.
	Return to the current day. Click on "Today's Date"
	To scroll through dates use the right arrows.
	Enter new date information OR edit the currently selected item. This will bring up the WinToday editor. (TIP: Select the first line of any item in the main display and RIGHT CLICK mouse to bring up edit options.)
	Write the currently displayed information to a text file
	Print the current display
	Bring up a traditional looking calender. Double clicking on any date on the calender will direct WinToday to display events for that day. Click on the double arrows to navigate through the years. Click on the single arrows to move month to month. Note that when you flip through dates on the display window the Calender follows along. Because of Windows limitations the calender's range is 1970-2037.

When the edit window first comes up 'Birthday' is selected. To enter a birthdate fill in the month, day and year boxes for the person's birthday you are noting. In the big text box type in the name of the person and any other pertaint biographical information. Click on 'OK' to enter information. Click on 'Apply' and information is entered but the Edit window remains opens so another date can be entered.
To enter an important historical date. Select 'Special Event' And fill in the big text box. If you want the information to only show on particular DAY select the day of the week. For example, for President's day you have to put in a week's worth of dates and select "Only on" MON. Click on 'OK' to enter information. Click on 'Apply' and information is entered but the Edit window remains opens so another date can be entered.
Select "Reminder" to enter info you'd like WinToday to display on a specific date. If you want the reminder to be displayed for more days. Select "Display until" box and enter the end date. If you want the reminder to be displayed on a specific day over several months. Make sure you have the begin and ending dates filled in correctly and select the day in "Only On" If you want the reminder to come up during several days of ANY MONTH select "On Any Month" and then the range of dates during the month the reminder should be shown in the "From - to - " boxes. For an example if you'd like the reminder to display first three days of every month you'd enter "From [ 1 } to [ 3 ].
Select "Only On" if you want the reminder to come up on a specific DAY during a month. Use the drop menu to select the day of the week. In this example: The reminder will be displayed on Thursday during the first week of the month (between day 1 and day 7).
In this example the reminder will be displayed on Tuesdays from February 1 to June 1. Click on 'OK' to enter information. Click on 'Apply' and information is entered but the Edit window remains opens so another date can be entered.
Here we want the reminder to show on Wednesday between the 11 and the 18th of any month.

WinToday Help Contents

WinToday Introduction

Installing WinToday

Using WinToday

WinToday Toolbar

WinToday Menu

WinToday Keyboard Shortcuts

WinToday Edit window

Uninstalling WinToday

Future WinToday plans

Contacting WinToday