SBSH's Papyrus for Series 60 - Calendar replacement

[Rafe]

SBSH Mobile Software have announced the availability of a beta of their Papyrus software for Series 60. Papyrus is a more robust and powerful replacement for the standard Calendar program. Features include daily, weekly and monthly view, and more effecient use of screen space that the standard Calendar. During the intial beta period the software is available for free download, and the authors are looking for feedback as to what features you would like to see added.



Press Release:

SBSH Mobile Software release Papyrus for Symbian series 60 - calendar replacement tool for Symbian series 60 devices enters public beta stages

March 23, 2005 - Papyrus - a new exciting calendar replacement tool for Symbian series 60 devices released by SBSH Mobile Software. Initial release in public beta level and can be downloaded for free.


After targeting SBSH software for the Pocket PC and Smartphone markets (with software titles like PocketBreeze, PocketWeather, iLauncher, Papyrus for smartphone and others), SBSH released today their first software for Symbian series 60 devices; Papyrus, a new solution designed to replace the default calendar application on Symbian series 60 devices with a more powerful and robust solution.

Papyrus initial public-beta release offers three main views:


Daily View - Offering "one day at a time" view with status icons, better visual display and much more.

Grid View - Seven days grid view, giving you a week overview in one screen.

Monthly View - Monthly view with mini-timelines giving you a daily glace on each day, bottom quick list view with a list of appointments on each day and easily jump to daily view screen.

Papyrus is first released as public beta and can be downloaded for free, in return we hope that users using Papyrus will post their feature requests and ideas on our forums and help us improve Papyrus.

[zainman]

read it here

[xerxes]

If this had been out last October I would never have switched to a C500.

[zainman]

so indirectly, this gives u a reason to switch back to symbian

[xerxes]

Originally Posted by zainman

so indirectly, this gives u a reason to switch back to symbian

Quite possibly. Although I am looking more at the Series 80 Nokia 9300 now.

I'm glad to announce we've just released a new update for Papyrus, version 0.9.01.

You can read more and download the new release for free from the following URL:
http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3953

What's new in Papyrus version 0.9.01?

* Added version for Symbian version 6.1 NGAGE, 3650 and other devices (The new ZIP file you will download contain two SIS files, one for Symbian 7.0, and the other for older Symbian 6.1 devices)
* Added True Type font support (Fonts needs to be installed separately, read more at the bottom of this post)
* Alignment adjustment for daily view
* Added setting option for anti aliased
* Added setting option for True Type
* Fixed events marked as anniversary
* Clicking the 1/3 buttons will move on the monthly view a month on each direction
* Clicking the 1/3 buttons will move on the weekly view a week forward or backward
* Pressing 2 takes you to today on all views
* Pressing backspace (c button) while on a meeting to delete the meeting
* Pre loading the fonts for optimization
* Notes added to all type Of entrys, not available on Symbian version 6.1
* Fixed typos in the resource

I'm glad to announce we've just released a new update for Papyrus, version 0.9.02.

You can read more and download the new release for free from the following URL:
http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3975

What's new in Papyrus version 0.9.02?

* Alarm problem solved
* Monthly top pane problem showing "day, year" instead of "month, year" fixed
* Fonts clipping problem on the monthly view quicklist fixed
* Programming level change: New/Edit form now works with a duplicate appointment item.
* Problem when trying to delete an appointment using the backspace key ('c') fixed.
* Changing the start time for an appointment on the new/edit dialog will now move the end time of the appointment automatically keeping the same time/date gap between the two.
* Optionally include Week numbers on the monthly view, added to settings.
* Optionally set starting day of week on the monthly view and grid view. Can be set to any day of the week.
* Added Setting for first week of year rule, choose between: first four days, first week including 1.1 or first full week

[fdxd]

Thanks! This is in my opinion one of the essential software on series 60 now

Originally Posted by fdxd

Thanks! This is in my opinion one of the essential software on series 60 now

Thank you
It's Great to hear.
check us back later this week we'll have a new version.

Amit Gil

[xycho]

the mini timeline and quick list in the month view are very very useful thanks for the software

I'm glad to announce we've just released a new update for Papyrus, version 0.9.02.

You can read more and download the new release for free from the following URL:
http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4050

What's new in Papyrus version 0.9.03?

* Go to Date option added on all views allowing you to switch to any date.
* New settings screen for Monthly view settings and general settings.
* Switch between setting views using the options menu on the settings section.
* Date format problem on the grid view when using locale yyyy/mm/dd fixed.
* MyText option added on new/edit appointment dialog for subject field, allowing you to easily enter up to 10 pre-defined text fields to the subject field.
* MyText option added on new/edit appointment dialog for location field.
* MyText option added on new/edit appointment dialog for note field.
* Edit option added on "Insert MyText" option menu allowing to edit each one of the ten MyText fields for the Subject MyText, Location MyText and Note MyText.
* My Text option on the New/Edit dialog will be hidden when the focus is not on the subject/location/note fields.
* All "move to view" options moved from the main menu under a sub-menu.
* When moving full month ahead using the '3' button the monthly view title will now change correctly.
* New option to choose a MyText field using the phone number buttons.

Originally Posted by xycho

the mini timeline and quick list in the month view are very very useful thanks for the software

Thank you for using it, I'm glad you enjoy Papyrus.

Hi Everyone.

we've just released a new really cool update for Papyrus, version 0.9.04.

You can read more and download the new release for free from the following URL:
http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4130


What's new in Papyrus version 0.9.04?

* The "New/Edit appointment" dialog will now use Symbian top and bottom panes, allowing to view the current used input method when entering information.
* The settings dialog will now use Symbian top and bottom panes.
* New "Font selection" settings page added on the settings section, allowing to select which font type to use from alist of all installed fonts. To use TrueType fonts enter the new font settings list and select one of the truetype fonts.
* True Type fonts are now marked with "(TTF)" addition at the end of the font name.
* New font preview window added on the font selection settings window giving a preview of each font style.
* New "Add contact" option added on "New/Edit appointment" dialog allowing to input contact information inside the Subject, Loaction and Note fields.
* Sequence search system added on the new "Add contact" dialog allowing to easily search for contacts.
* Problem removing repeat pattern from appointments with existing appointments fixed.
* New "Repeat until" option added on the "New/Edit appointment" dialog.
* About dialog added on the settings section with current version number.
* Alarm time changes according to start time on the appointment on the "Ne/Edit appointment" dialog.
* Repeat end date will now show on the view appointment screen.

Hi everyone,

We have just releaesed version 0.9.05, which have some really cool new features.

You can read more and download the new release for free from the following URL:
http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4182

What's new in Papyrus version 0.9.05?

* Phone numbers on the view appointment dialog will be marked in blue
* Ability to highlight phone numbers on the view appointment dialog and scroll between them added.
* Clicking the joy-pad enter button will call the currently selected phone number on the view appointment dialog.
* Contacts on the "Insert contact" dialog will now be sorted correctly according to ABC.
* Problem with appointments sort on the calendar views fixed.
* Problem with Papyrus crash after the screen saver is activated fixed.
* When trying to delete a recurring appointment you will now be asked if you wish to delete series or only one occurrence.
* When saving changes in a recurring appointment you will now be asked if you wish to save series or only one occurrence.

I'm glad to announce we've just released a new update for Papyrus, version 0.9.02.

You can read more and download the new release for free from the following URL:

http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4288


What's new in Papyrus version 0.9.06?

* Categories support added.
* New categories field added on the new/edit appointment dialog showing all categories selected for an item.
* New "Set categories" dialog added allowing to choose categories to appointments. Enter the dialog by clicking the joy-pad enter button on the new/edit appointment dialog.
* Color selection dialog added.
* New "Add category" option added on options menu inside the new category select view.
* New "set color" option added on categories list dialog, allowing to set a color to each category.
* New "Remove color" option added on the categories list dialog, allowing you to remove the color defined to a category.
* New line displayed as a "box" on the "view appointment" dialog fixed.
* Categories list added on view appointment dialog.
* Last dashed line after last appointment on the daily view removed.
* Additional gap on "view appointment" dialog if there is not location removed.
* New diamond icon added on monthly view to mark days with all day events.
* New present icon added on the monthly view for days that include anniversary events.