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   Smola EasyOrganizer v1.0

1. Basic info
2. Why use Smola EasyOrganizer?
3. Installation and uninstallation
4. Help on Task editing
5. Help on Options
6. Help on Importance
7. Legal notice and source code
8. Credits & Contact


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Smola EasyOrganizer is a simple free (open source) organizer that lets you:
- enter tasks
- set priorities
- set categories
- set task dependencies
- configure milestones


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########## 2. Why use Smola EasyOrganizer?
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- Tasks are shown as a simple list, sorted by importance.
- Importance is calculated based on task priority, task age, number of dependent tasks and sum of priorities of dependencies.
- Time dependency is not important since this is not a project-organizer application. So, no graphic display and gantt-charts.
- Special milestone-tasks; autamtically update their finished state upon state of its dependencies.
- Option to increase tasks's priority as weeks pass by.
- Custom categories.
- Free for private and commercial use.
- Source is open so hopefully it will be mantained forever.

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########## 3. Installation and uninstallation
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Unzip the archive in any top directory you like (e.g. "C:\Program Files") and start the program. The program will install it self so it starts at the Windows-startup. This can be configured afterwards.

To uninstall, run the uninstall.bat file that came with the installation.


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- Name: Task name. You cannot use pipe character (|) in names.

- Priority: Any number between -268435455 and 268435455. The system is all yours. I (the author) use the system from 0 to 100.

- Effective priority: The true priority based on the creation time. Every week increases effective priority by 1. You can set the task to ignore this feature by choosing the option "Ignore time progress".

- Creation date: the date you create the task. You can change it if you want to.

- Category: Name of the category. Case insensitive. You cannot delete a category by hand but on the next project-load all empty categories wiil be dismissed.

- Ignore time progress: Suppress calculating effective priority based on the time passed.

- Milestone: Task changes its finished state based on its dependencies. You cannot (un)finish it manually. Milestone tasks are usefull for grouping several similar tasks if, say, a different task depends on all of them. They are listed slightly higher than the other tasks. This option also makes time progress ingored!

- Is dependency for: This is the list of all the "child" tasks, the tasks that depend on this task to be finished. These tasks will be listed lower on the list.

- Depends on: This is the list of all the "parent" tasks, the tasks that this task depends to be finished. These tasks will be listed higher on the list. You cannot add a task that depends on this task directly or indirectly so you cannot make circular dependencies.

- Available: These tasks are availabe to make dependencies to. This list excludes finished tasks.

- OK/Cancel: All changes are made only if you press OK.


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- Increase priority every week, unless priority is negative: This option lets all the task increase priority by one for every week that has passed since it's creation. If you enter two task with the same priority, the older one is more important. The original priority is kept, only the calculated "effective" priority is changed.

- Calculate priority also from dependencies: This options changes the effective task priority by adding the sum of all effective priorities from dependent tasks.

- Automatically save project on closing: Automatically saves project on closing/exiting WITHOUT CONFIRMATION. Use at your own risk.


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########## 6. Help on Importance
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- Finished tasks are less important than active ones.
- Finished milestone-tasks are slightly more important then finished simple tasks (since milestones can be reused).
- Task dependent on the other task is less important.
- Task with higher effective priority is more important. Effective priority is calculated with the sum of all dependable effective priorities, unless this option is disabled. If a dependable task is used indirectly more than once, it is still calculated only once.
- Tasks with more dependent tasks are more important.
- Tasks with more dependancies are less important.


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########## 7. Legal notice and source code
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Smola EasyOrganizer is released under GNU General Public License version 2.0. The terms and conditions can be found in the accompanying file gpl.txt or on the internet at the address: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Credits:
- EasyOrganizer uses some funcionality from the Jedi Code Library v1.99 (http://www.delphi-jedi.org).
- Setup is compiled with Inno Setup Compiler v5.2.2 (http://www.innosetup.com).

The source code can be obtained on the internet at these addresses:
http://easyorganizer.sourceforge.net
http://www.smolasoftware.com/easyorganizer

Copyright (c) 2008 Ante Smolcic


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########## 8. Credits & Contact
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Web: http://www.smolasoftware.com/easyorganizer
Author: Ante Smolcic
E-mail: easyorganizer@supersmola.net