So what does this program do that could possibly take 400+KB of code? Well, it won’t take out the trash or mow the yard, but it’ll remind you to do it about 20 different ways.

The list of features is too great to address in this review. This review will focus on those main features that extend Datebk4 above and beyond Datebook+.

The first feature of note - which is not new to Datebk4, but was a feature of Datebk3 that was dropped in the Datebook+ edition - is datebook categories. These categories are an extremely useful feature in Datebk4 because they not only allow you to view certain categories while hiding others, but they allow for beaming of entire groups of appointments. An obvious example of the usefulness of this feature is a husband and wife can have separate categories for one another, and keep up-to-date by beaming the appropriate categories back and forth. It is then easy to set the preferences to display both categories, just your own, or just your spouse’s. If you are viewing both schedules at once, another feature offered in order to make things more are icons and font assignments. In order to differentiate between your’s and your spouse’s doings, you can opt to set each category to use a different icon and/or font so that perhaps your items showed up bold, and your spouse’s in the normal font. (You are limited to the four font choices that are built into the Pal OS.) The obvious categories of work, home, and kids have plenty of potential to help organize your life.

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