Editing Entries

The Entry Edit dialog is the main dialog that you use to edit the details of diary entries. This includes all of the different entry types, including tasks, appointments, journal entries, people, addresses and objects.

The dialog is divided up into a number of tabs (listed below as the main headings). Not all of the tabs are visible for all of the entry types (for example, it makes no sense to have repeating people, although you may know a few yourself).

Details - Home

This is the main form, and is often the only part of this dialog that you need to use. It contains the most important bits of data for the different entry types (priority and due date for tasks, start and end time for appointments).

As well as containing the basic information for the entry, it also lets you enter any extra variables defined for that entry. Variables are defined in the entry's object spec.

It also contains the entry details, which is a large text area that you can use to provide details for the task. You can store whatever text you like in this.

Tags - Tag

This lets you add tags to an entry as a way of linking to other entries.  See Tags.

Repeating - Clock

This tab applies to tasks and appointments. It lets you indicate whether the task is repeating, and if so how often. See Repeating Tasks/Appointments for more detail.

Dependent - Tree

This tab lets you set other tasks or appointments that this task depends on (i.e. you can't start work on B until A is finished). See Dependencies for more detail.

Spent - Spent

This tab is all about Spent Time (and how it is used). There are 3 different parts to this tab:

Plan - Plan

This tab is all about planning when to work on a task. There are 2 parts to this tab:

Automation - Next

This tab lets you edit any URLs (links to web pages or other services). These are only available in the premium version. For more details see URLs.

This tab also lets you edit any scripts that are run as part of the task. Scripts let you automate interacting with the system, and can also do complex operations on the data in objects. Scripts are only available in the premium version - More information is available in Scripts.

Properties - Settings

The properties page controls some of the general properties of the diary entry.