1.5.5. Claris Organizer
Claris Organizer has been in use for a long time on Apple machines. It has a
good set of basic features for calendaring. Given its age, there a number of
significant missing features, in particular support for scheduling meetings
among groups of users.
Good Features:
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covers the basics fine
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provides good printing functionality
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allows overlapping items and does a pretty good job of displaying them
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provides pretty good functionality for recurring items, but monthly recurring
items cannot be specified that well; for example a recurring schedule on
several specific days of the month cannot be done easily
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provides good functionality for item categories, allowing naming and color
coding
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provides good functionality for filtering, allowing user-defined views that can
include or not include particular properties of scheduled items; for example a
custom view can be defined to show only items of a particular category with
titles containing a certain text pattern
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overall it's nice and simple, without a lot of superfluous features
Bad Features:
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allows only one view of one calendar to be open at a time
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has only one level of undo/redo
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the only kind of lists are for tasks
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provides a calendar "navigator" in the form of a small monthly view that is not
very useful
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provides a "special date" type of scheduled item that is not useful given that
is not significantly different than the "event" type of item
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provides a "contact list" feature that is not integrated with any external
address book tool, making the feature not very useful
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provides a "notes" feature that is not well integrated with the calendar;
specifically, notes can have a date stamp, but are not specifically associated
with scheduled items
Missing Features
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no import of other calendar formats, including no import of plain text
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no place to put the location of a scheduled item; it must be squeezed into the
title
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no details or notes field for scheduled items
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no yearly view
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no multi-user features at all, including no meeting items on calendar, and
necessarily no user or group administration functionality
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