Introduction to Time & Chaos
In 1992, Time and Chaos made it's first appearance as try
before you buy software. From then until now, it has received awards, accolades
and acclaim from the reviewers and from
over half of a million users who have registered the product.
Easy-to-use "one screen" interface
When someone looks at the main screen of Time & Chaos,
their first impressions is of one of the "hallmarks" of Time and Chaos:
Everything is visible on one screen! Your appointment schedule and to do
list for today along with a
calendar for the month can all be seen at the same time as your telephone
book.
Creating appointments and to do's are as easy as dragging a name from your
telephone book
and dropping it into the appropriate area. You are also given many visual cues regarding your
data, like whether it has a note attached or whether it is linked to a phone book record.
Easy-to-share databases
If you use Time & Chaos on a network, any database you have can be used
by multiple people on multiple computers, even at the same time! There is no
expensive server software or hardware to purchase, either --- it's all built
in to the client software.
If everyone wants to share the same group database, you only have to
share the folder in Windows where you keep the data, and then in Time &
Chaos use the File, Open Data Folder option to point everyone to the same
path -- That's it! If you have more than one database, T&C can help
with that, too, with our extensive Network and Workgroup features.
Network and workgroup features
When using Time & Chaos in your business, you may have need to work with others
on your network as part of a workgroup. Whether
you are set up with Peer-To-Peer Networking or Client-Server or even just a stand-alone
user wishing to work with multiple data folders, Time & Chaos has many features built
in for your needs.
A User List is available to show you all the other Time & Chaos
users you are in a workgroup with. If you want to send someone an item like an
appointment, just highlight their icon, and drag the appointment down to this list. If you
want to change to their data folder, just double-click on their icon.
If you are going to schedule an appointment for a group, you may want to use
the Time Bar feature to take a look at the availability of everyone else. Just open the
Time Bar, and drag names from your user list to this new window to add their schedules to
the graph.
Making contact with the address
book
Time & Chaos has the most powerful telephone
book in its class because it is much more than just a simple address book and phone
dialer. In addition to placing voice calls through your TAPI dialer, Time & Chaos will
also allow you to launch faxes and emails with a MAPI mail program like Microsoft
Exchange. You can also store WWW addresses and have your default Web browser take you
right to that site or use your browser's email program such as Netscape Messenger, Outlook
Express, Eudora or Calypso.
As you will notice from the screen shot above, Time & Chaos will let you make
buttons for FAX:, mailto: (Internet mail through
browser), URL: (Web sites), and others. You can then use these buttons to launch
these features using the programs you already have in Windows.
Different views for different perspectives
Need a new perspective on your data? Click on a column
heading like Company, and your data automatically resorts itself. Need to concentrate on a
particular area? Use the powerful Screen Layouts feature under the view menu
to rearrange the entire screen to focus on your needs.
For example, under View, Screen Layouts, is a choice for a 12 Month
Planner. This view gives you a better perspective on your long-term
scheduling and planning. It even lets you reschedule items by simply
dragging and dropping them to another date.
Integration with other applications
There are many other applications you probably
use everyday that Time and Chaos will work with to help you get the job done.
- Microsoft Word XP, 2000, 97 and 95 and Corel WordPerfect 7 and newer - for mail merges (letters, mailing
labels, and envelopes)
- Web Browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator) - for Web Browsing and
email
- TAPI Dialers (including Microsoft Phone Dialer) - for voice communications
- Microsoft Excel - for additional report formatting and functions
- WinFax 8.0 and newer - for fax transmissions
Final thoughts
There are many more features that we could describe or
functions we could show you, but this is, after all, only an introduction to the program.
Time & Chaos is still available as try before you buy software, just as it was
when we started in 1992. We feel Time & Chaos is one of the most powerful personal
productivity tools you can find and we would love for you to take it for a test run.
Once you have this on your own computer you will find many other features like a powerful
search and report engine, great printing, transportable records and more. We hope you like
what you see and that it helps you manage your chaos!
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