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"I've searched over the years for scheduling programs that
display information the way most people think. Gantt charts just
don't have the same intuitive feeling as a calendar. Most
scheduling software forces you to conform to strict rules on
entering information and displaying it, instead of allowing the
end user the ability to customize features to suit how they work.
With The Calendar Planner, I finally have all the powerful
features needed to track complex video game production schedules
as well as the ability to communicate clearly to everyone
involved in the project - all in an intuitive, easy-to-use
interface."
Barbara House, Sr. Producer for Sony Computer Entertainment
America - Playstation Division
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Scheduling Calendar
The Calendar Planner is
a true scheduling calendar, designed specifically to address the
limitations of traditional calendars and the complexity found in
traditional scheduling and project management software.
The Calendar Planner has tamed
one of the most difficult, challenging and unpredictable scheduling
environments in the world, the Film and TV industry. This easy
to use, powerful and visual calendar software is now used by
individuals and small to large businesses in a
wide range of industries for
countless uses.
The Calendar Planner will
allow you to not only manage your appointments, meetings and events
as a traditional calendar would but also provides powerful
scheduling features such as linking events so when one moves,
related events move, instantly update an entire schedule to changes
and quickly show and hide groups to filter by task, department,
project and more. All in a very easy to use and very affordable
solution.
Find out how this flexible and powerful scheduling calendar,
The Calendar Planner can help
you with your scheduling needs. Click on a heading below for more detail:
- Smart Scheduling and Show/Hide Days and Time...
Unlike any other scheduling software on the market The Reel Logix
Calendar Planner will automatically
schedule complex recurring items around off-days that you set. You can
optionally display Start only, Finish only or Start/Finish times.
Resize day columns to maximize your screen use or hide entire days
to show just what you need.
- Organize Around Any Type of Project:
Unlike many rigid scheduling programs,
The Calendar Planner will
allow you to quickly and easily create and organize your project
any way you need to. Keep everything in one folder or organize
by event type, project, department, any structure you choose.
This allows you to easily show and hide groups or apply style
with the click of a mouse. Even save your structure for re-use
on the next project.
- Event Linking:
Link events together with a mouse click, so when one
moves, all related events move - adjusting dependencies
automatically. This is ideal for situations where events
must always occur before or after another or need to be grouped
by client, department, etc. You can even create
detailed rules driven schedules that can be adjusted
or scheduled by moving a single item.
- File Management:
Add web site links or any file such as documents or images to
any event or even notes within the calendar. Open them by
clicking on the event name or link within a note. Great
for associating related material to events like directions to
locations, meeting notes, agendas, detailed instructions, etc.
Associate to a single event or multiple events of the same type.
- Rapidly Adjust to Changes:
A major drawback of calendars has always been the inability to easily
adjust to schedule changes. For example, making adjustments
when a project has pushed by 2 weeks, could take hours.
The Calendar Planner's
Push or Pull feature allows the entire project or just
sections of it to be adjusted in seconds. Push or pull an
entire project, a folder, or just a section of your schedule by
days, weeks, months or years, leaving locked events untouched.
You can even choose to push or pull from a specific date during
your project. The software will automatically account for off days,
ensuring your schedule remains accurate.
- Visual Resource Management:
Manage resource usage and availability in the calendar by
date or time ranges. Maintain independent names for each
task or event for a resource, and use our auto color coding to
quickly visualize resource usage.
- Show and Hide:
Easily show or hide events or entire folders with the
click of a mouse. This filtering allows you to quickly
view and print only specific projects, phases, event types,
departments and resources and tasks, giving you unlimited
views of your schedule, all in a single file. These
"filtered views" of your calendar can easily be saved for
quick access later and used for displaying, printing
or sharing.
- Publish your Calendar as PDF or Web page:
Quickly output a calendar as PDF (using a PDF driver) or
simply save as a web page so anyone on your team, anywhere, can easily
access it. You can even filter your calendar, so only
what you want is included in your PDFs or web pages. Web
pages even auto expand to show all your events, no matter
how many you have scheduled! Include links to other
web content or even files from both items and notes.
- Combine and Share Calendars:
Share one or more files over the network for multiple
people to view and coordinate editing using our read and
write access options and auto update notification. You can even
send selected portions of calendars to others via email,
for quick import into their calendar. Even combine multiple
calendars into one. Work alone and create a detailed schedule
for your project or department or share and combine calendars
among your entire team.
- Scalable Day View:
Most traditional calendar and scheduling software use a vertical
display for each day. The Calendar
Planner offers a unique and detailed horizontal day view.
This allows much more detail to be viewed if needed, for each
task or event. It also allows multiple events to display at the same
time. Use our day scale slider to display or print an entire
24 hour period or adjust to see a single hour.
- Irregular Event Tracking:
Most calendars allow you to create recurring events like
birthdays and anniversaries, weekly, monthly and yearly
meetings, and appointment reminders and we do as well. However
what about events that happen frequently but not always on the
same day, like employee sick days?
The Calendar Planner allows you to create a single event
for anything and simply drag it to as many separate days as
you need to. Each can have its own length, additional text,
notes and even its own style. You can also navigate to each
occurrence of an event from a single item. Ideal for employee
scheduling, sick day and vacation tracking,
managing client contacts, resource usage
(Equipment, Rentals, Rooms), anything that does not always
occur on the same dates.
- Detailed Notes:
With The Calendar Planner
you can attach notes with rich text
that can include formatting like bullet lists, links to web
sites and documents. Ideal for contact information, results of
meetings, client contacts,
reasons for employee sick days and more, and the notes will move
with the events. Even add notes to unscheduled events and create
detailed plans just waiting to be scheduled. You can also attach
detailed notes to days as well as drag them between days. When you
print your calendar you can include a detailed notes report that
lists every note you have entered (unless hidden), along with the
date and event information.
- Automatic Labeling:
Automatic labeling can be used to show how long an event
has worked or how long it has remaining. You can
choose to display this at the beginning of each week or on the
banner itself. You can even choose a start and finish label so
no matter where you are in the calendar you can easily see when
an even has just started and when it is in its final week. This
is ideal for tracking production weeks, project
phases, rentals, employee vacations and more.
- Off Days:
When you need to use a calendar for business or project planning
it must be able to account for non-working days.
The Calendar Planner
allows you to choose common off days and even set working and non
working days individually. You can choose how they display
and more importantly how events react to them. For example,
you can choose to have events automatically hide on off days
so when events overlap off days they do not show as working. When
you move events or push and pull your schedule, the program will
automatically fit your events around your working days,
ensuring your schedule always remains accurate.
- Event Style and Position:
Most calendar or scheduling software will allow you to create banners,
but most don't allow the banners to be resized to display more than
one row of text, or even allow you to choose a color, size, or what
order they appear in each day.
The Calendar Planner allows you to adjust style,
font and color with the click of a mouse.
You can apply style to individual events or all events in a folder.
Ideal for assigning style to events from a certain department, project
or client. You can also choose the exact order banners appear in each
day or week. This ensures you can always display all your
events just the way you need to.
- Unique Views:
Our software offers unique views you won't find in other
calendars or scheduling software. We offer 1-4 week views
which allow the maximum number of elements to appear and
allow you to focus on weekly events and tasks. We also offer
a standard 1 month views as well as our unique 4-month view.
All views can be used for display and for printing.
- Custom Views:
Traditional calendar software normally prevents you from having
more than a few items in a day or week. Our unique overlap
indicator will alert you when an event does not display
and allow you to scroll or adjust the view. Use the additional
views we offer or you can even customize them around your
unique schedule, to make sure you can always display
and print all your events.
- Navigation:
Use various methods of moving through your calendar
by day, week, month or year.
Use our unique view browser to jump between recent dates
and views as you would in an internet browser.
- Find and Go To:
Use Go To to instantly locate an event wherever
it is in your calendar. Our advanced find feature
allows you to search for all occurrences of an item,
like all sick days for an employee, or all vacation days,
making it ideal for employee tracking. You can even
find all events that are linked to another event.
This is ideal for finding all items within a group, such as all
contacts or events related to a single project, client or
department.
- Easy and Powerful Interface:
The Reel Logix team has over 20 years of experience in
creating friendly, easy-to-use user interfaces which are
used in all our software. We also offer the depth of features
you expect in a sophisticated Windows XP application.
Such as drag and drop, drag-able toolbars and
lists, the ability to customize your toolbar sets and
unlimited undo and redo.
- Reminders:
Easily set birthday reminders and appointment reminders. Get
reminded even if the software isn't running, so you never
forget an important event again. View a list of all past
and future reminders as well.
- Templates:
Use the free starter templates provided for managing
hundreds of common events or combine, modify and
create your own. This allows you to create a standard
set of events, tasks and resources you frequently manage and
never retype anything again. You can even share and
combine templates among the team so everyone uses the same
structure.
Whatever your scheduling or project planning needs are, you will
find our scheduling calendar is one of the most unique, easy to
use, flexible and powerful solutions on the market today.
See who our clients of
The Calendar Planner are and
what they say about this
unique calendar software.


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