Remind Me! (c 1990-92 RSE Inc) is user-supported shareware. You are encouraged to freely distribute unmodified copies of RMNDME.EXE as long as you don't charge for the copies. If after evaluating Remind Me! you decide to continue using it, then you need to register by sending $15 (add $1 for shipping, $1 for 3.5, $5 overseas) to: Remind Me! Visa and MC customers 1157 57th Drive SE call or FAX (206) 939-4105 Auburn, WA 98002 CIS: 72371,1557 Registered users receive the following benefits: 1. Technical support and the latest version of Remind Me! 2. No more annoying "please register" messages. 3. Our RSE Shareware disk that includes unregistered copies of many of our other shareware programs including PC-Directory, FileNotes, PC-Images, Trash-It, Briteline, Playback, and Nabbit. 4. A sincere "Thank You!" for supporting our efforts. SCREEN LAYOUT OVERVIEW The top line tells you which of the 3 event lists you are viewing. The next line displays the event data headings. The majority of the screen shows the events. The hi-lite bar is initially located on the first event. You move it using the cursor keys. Pressing End will move you to the end of the list. Pressing Home will move the hi-lite bar to the first item in the list. If there are more than 40 events then PgUp and PgDn moves to the next and previous pages respectively. The next to last line of the screen shows your Menu selections. To select a particular function just press the hi-lited key associated with that function. For example, you'd press C to Continue. Let's look at each of these areas in more detail. THE THREE LISTS There are three event lists. The lists always appear in the following order: "These events occurred while you were away." These events happened since the last time you used Remind Me!. They are shown just in case you forgot and/or want to reschedule any of them. Recurring events will have already been rescheduled even tho they appear on the list. If there are no events in this list the next list "DON'T FORGET" will appear first, else press C to continue. "DON'T FORGET" These are upcoming events that are within their lead time. I'll explain lead time in a minute. Basically, these are the events that you wanted to be reminded of at this point in time. You can move on to the next screen by pressing C to Continue. "Complete listing of events" This list contains all the events in the file, sorted by number of days until the event occurs. Non-recurring events which have already passed are listed first. EVENT DATA HEADINGS The second line on the screen displays the headings for the event data. DTE Days to Event: the number of days until the event occurs. Events that only occur once, and have already past, have a negative DTE indicating how many days ago they happened. Event Event description Date Date of the event Code How the date is determined. Non-recurring events have no code. Y denotes yearly events, M is for monthly events. Recurring day-of-the- week events show the occurrence first (0-5 with 0 being every week, 1 being the first week .... 5 being the last week) followed by the first 2 letters of the day of the week. Examples: 0Tu every Tuesday 3Mo 3rd Monday of every month Y yearly, birthdays for example M monthly, car payments for example 5Su last Sunday of each month non recurring event LT Lead Time. When you add an event you specify how far in advance you want to start being reminded of it. This is the lead time of the event. For example, Mom's birthday is May 18th but you want Remind Me! to start reminding you 1 week in advance. So when asked what the lead time is, you'd enter 7, for 7 days. If you only want to be notified on the day of the event, then enter 0 as the lead time. MENU SELECTIONS: To perform the desired function press the hi-lited key. Your choices, depending on the event list being displayed, are: Reschedule lets you change the "date" of the hi-lited event Print sends the list of events being reviewed to the printer Continue continues on to the next list Quit exits the program Jump asks you to input a date. The hi-lite bar then jumps to the first entry that occurs on or after the date. Add lets you add an event. The process is self explanatory except perhaps for the first question: Actual date - Day of week - Project? This is asking how the event date is defined. If it can be defined by a numeric date like January 10th, or the 1st of each month, the press A for Actual date. If it's defined by a day of the week, such as every Tuesday or the last Friday of the month, then press D for Day of week. However, if it's defined as occurring so many days from today (like 30 days from now) then press P for Project. Depending on which option you select, you'll be asked a variety of questions. The acceptable response range for each question will be displayed in the question. If the values in the response range are hi- lighted then just press the appropriate key, else you need to press Return after your input. Delete deletes the hi-lited event. Since the event isn't actually deleted until you quit the program, you can restore it by Deleting it again. In other words, deleting an already deleted item will restore it. Hide hides the event from view but doesn't delete it. Let's say an event "Rent is due" occurs on the first of each month. It has a lead time of 5 days. Sure enough, 5 days before rent is due Remind Me! starts reminding you. So you pay the rent. Why continue being bugged for the next 4 days? Hide the event. That way it won't show up for the next 4 days. Don't worry, it automatically becomes visible again next time the event is getting near. Konfigure lets you specify how many days you want to keep past events in the file and whether you have a color monitor or not. Fix Press this key if things go sour. You'll be given the following options: Start over: starts over WITHOUT saving any changes made during this session. Quit without saving changes: quits without saving any changes made during this session. Change date: lets you input today's date over again. The program will begin again using the new date as today's date. Update DTE's: a situation may arise where one or more of the DTEs are incorrect. Pressing U will update all the DTEs. Make sure that today's date is correct. Exit Fix: returns you to the event listing. Calendar brings up a mini calendar showing today's date and the month before and after today. You will have several options. Pressing Esc will return you to the event listing. Pressing the up/down cursor keys with change the year, the left/right cursor keys change the month. Pressing C lets you change the calendar to a new date. What day of the week were you born? When is New Years in the year 2000? Remind Me! will show you in seconds. Each day when you first turn on your computer, Remind Me! can quickly list the important upcoming events on your screen, and quit, without requiring any input from you! It's nice because it's fully automatic. * If you have a hard disk, put the following in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: CD \??? (where ??? = subdirectory where Remind Me! files are) RME CD \ * If you don't have a hard disk then put the phrase "B:RME" into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the disk you use to boot your system, and have the Remind Me! disk handy whenever you turn on your computer. Use "RME/P" if you'd like Remind Me! to wait for a keypress before quitting. Use "RME/F" (or RME/P/F) if you'd like it to only run the very first time you boot your computer each day. COPYRIGHT NOTICE Remind Me! is copyrighted 1989-91 by RSE Incorporated. Portions of this Code are Copyrighted 1987 by Zedcor Inc..