RAD Days
RAD Days are similar to the birthday and anniversaries found in Outlook®, except RADder! RAD will check one of the User Fields (you set this in preferences) for RAD Days for each contact. If it exists then a RAD Day button will appear on Rolladesktop, allowing you to edit, add or remove any day. A nice calendar GUI can be used to add new dates. You can also add RAD Days to a contact that doesn’t have one from the RAD Day menu. A color coded (Outlook 2002 and up only) RAD Day will be added to your Outlook® calendar once a RAD Day has been added or you have edited and saved an existing RAD Day. Sometimes you may lose your calendar information or feel like a RAD Day isn’t showing up—Simply run the rescan option from the RAD Day menu and all RAD Days will be removed (based on a category=RAD Day) and all of your RAD Days will be added. Optionally you can have Rolladesktop preserve historical RAD Days when you rescan or remove all RAD Days. Every time you rescan, RAD Days will be added for two full years (no need to project your roommate’s birthday from now till 2050, right?). Don’t fret though; a reminder will be added two years from the scan date to tell you to rescan. Chances are you will rescan often enough you will never see this reminder.
RAD Days come in three flavors: Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other. Each one
can include a person’s name and the other can be named whatever you want (e.g.
the date you stopped smoking). All RAD Days have the option to show an age
(appears in the location field). This way you will see:
-Eric Green’s Birthday (28)
-Eric and Kristen’s Anniversary (1)
The age will increase with each year as long as you provide a year. You have the option to omit the year (e.g. your Boss’ birthday).
Rolladesktop has the option to scan for upcoming RAD Days on load. It will search for the next 7 days looking for a RAD Day. You wont forget your brother-in-law’s birthday this year! If a RAD Day is found it will be shown on the top left of RAD. If the RAD Day is today, it will be in red (instead of green).
If you manually edit a RAD Day it must be in this format (the RAD Day seen in your calendar is shown in parenthesis):
birthdays
01/01 (<Contact’s Full Name>’s Birthday)
01/01/1976 (<Contact’s Full Name>’s Birthday (AGE))
* RAD 01/01/1976 (RAD <Contact’s Last Name>’s Birthday (AGE))
* .RAD_FAN 01/01 (RAD FAN’s Birthday)
anniversaries
*Anniversary Eric&Kristen 08/28/2004 (Eric and Kristen Green’s Anniversary (1))
other
*Started_Dating .Eric&Kristen 9/1/1998 (Eric and Kristen Started dating (7)
NOTICE that it is important to use the . to prevent the contact’s last name from appearing. To avoid this:
*Started_Dating Eric&Kristen 9/1/1998 (Eric and Kristen Green’s Started dating (7)
Special characters
. Will not use the contact’s last name
& will be replaced with “ and “
_ will be replaced with a space
(space) A properly formatted RAD Day will be: “type name date” An _ must be used to add a space to the name or type.
* starts the RAD Day line (except for a default birthday, which only needs a year)
Carriage Return (enter) can be used to have multiple RAD Days for one contact. For instance, you might have your sister’s birthday, anniversary and your nephew’s birthday all in her User Field.
The idea for RAD Days
was inspired by the program Happy Days for the Palm o/s:
http://jmjeong.com/index.php?display=HappyDays/Manual
I attempted to remain consistent with the Happy Day format so that you may use the two in harmony.