Revision History
When you
purchase a Remind-Me license you receive free updates for 1 year from the
date of your purchase. If you would like to use a version released
after 1 year you may upgrade at a reduced
rate. To find your purchase date look in Remind-Me under "Help /
About...". The release dates for each version are shown below.
You can download an older version by clicking on the links below.
August 5, 2011 version 6.2:
[download version 6.2:
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Palm]
- Bug fix: Version 6.1 could crash when opening data files created
with versions of Remind-Me before 6.0
August 3, 2011 version 6.1:
[download version 6.1:
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Outlook |
Palm]
- Improved error reporting in the Google Sync add-on
- Added "(Google Sync in Progress...)" to title bar while a Google
sync is in progress
- Added ability to control advanced details of time zone
information in iCalendar
exports
- Bug fix: Invalid exceptions (dates in a recurring event where
the occurrence was deleted) would cause the Google sync to fail
- Bug fix: Repeating timed events synced to Google would sometimes
be displayed incorrectly on Google calendar
July 31, 2011 version 6.0:
[download version 6.0:
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Palm]
- Synchronize Remind-Me with your Google calendar and thus your
smartphone. [more info]
- Outlook 2010 syncing support
- Added "Last Modified" and "Created" date/time to list of
available fields for sorting/displaying in List view
- Bug fixes relating to iCalendar file (*.ics) format
July 6, 2010 version 5.3:
[download version 5.3:
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Palm]
- Calendar subscriptions added. You can now subscribe to any
number of calendars on the internet. Each subscribed calendar
is placed onto your Remind-Me calendar in a category name you
specify. Subscribed calendars are automatically updated daily.
Many calendars are available on sites such as
iCalShare.com.
To subscribe to a calendar either manually enter calendar address in
Remind-Me at "File / Options... / Subscribe", or click on a webcal://
URL within your web browser. See
Calendar Subscriptions in the
online help for more information.
March 8, 2010 version 5.2:
[download version 5.2:
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- Added option to display month calendar as desktop wallpaper.
See "File / Options... / Other / Show Calendar as Desktop
Wallpaper".
- Tray icon tooltip displays alarms due today. Hover your
mouse over Remind-Me's icon in the tray to see this quick list of
alarms for today.
- Added option to include event start time in the alarm list.
See "File / Options... / Other / Alarm List Shows Start Time in
Name".
- Fixed task tray icon to update more reliably when Windows comes
out of hibernation
- Fixed issue where desktop icon would sometimes not display the
window if it was already running and hidden, and started by the
setup program
- Bug fix: List view columns could display data in wrong order
after columns were re-ordered with drag/drop
October 30, 2009 version 5.1:
[download version 5.1:
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- Updated for Windows 7 compatibility
- Added ability to customize Alarm List font. Right mouse
click on the alarm list to change.
- Bug fix: Forward/Backward buttons in month view could sometimes
skip a month when current day didn't exist in next/last month
- Bug fix: When setting "time grid" under File / Options... /
Other to 60 minutes the change was ignored
- Bug fix: Program could crash under certain circumstances
November 11, 2008 version 5.0:
[download version 5.0:
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- New "Day" and "Week" calendar views. Shows timed events on
a time grid for viewing a daily schedule. Easily modify events
using the mouse by clicking/dragging.
- New "Day" and "Week" printing choices
- Added "Category" support. Events can be assigned to any
number of user-definable categories. Categories can be
assigned color display options to easily identify which events
belong in which categories. Category filter enables only
displaying events from selected categories. Imported iCalendar
(*.ics) files can be assigned to a category for easy filtering.
- Improved event editor, making "Comments" section much larger
- Added support for sending email through mail servers that
require a secure connection (SSL)
- Improved toolbar. Added "Find", "Day", "Week", and
"Filter" buttons. Existing buttons made more colorful.
- Improved "Print" dialog to allow selection of the printer, and
show selected printer's status
- Tasks now support a much wider variety of commands. Enter
a document name, program, or URL.
- Improved robustness of task tray icon. If Windows Explorer
crashes, Remind-Me will replace its icon in the notification area
(task tray) when Windows Explorer re-starts.
- Bug fix relating to importing iCalendar files. When
certain fields were 'folded' Remind-Me would fail to import this
event.
September 3, 2008 version 4.8:
[download version 4.8:
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- Improved Print Preview feature for Vista compatibility
May 12, 2008 version 4.7:
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- Updated Print Preview feature for Vista SP1 compatibility
- Accessibility improvements:
- Tab key moves keyboard focus between List and calendar
windows
- Improved tab order on Alarm List dialog
- Space key toggles acknowledged state on selected event
in Alarm List dialog
March 18, 2008 version 4.6:
[download version 4.6:
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- Alarm List dialog can now be re-sized
- Alarm List dialog size and position preference
memorized/restored automatically
- Alarm List dialog can be maximized
- Bug fix - Email reminders being sent via SMTP mail server would
fail under Vista when User Account Control (UAC) was on
July 22, 2007 version 4.5:
[download version 4.5:
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Outlook |
Palm]
- Vertical and horizontal scroll bars are displayed on the
"Comments" edit box when needed
- Setup program now adds a shortcut on the Desktop (in addition to
Start menu)
- One Outlook add-in now works for all supported Outlook versions.
(Eliminated version that was only for Outlook 2007.)
- Added category filtering for Outlook conduit. See "Tools /
Remind-Me Options... / Category filter..." from within Outlook.
- Windows Vista compatibility improvement (runs with permissions
of regular Vista application)
- Bug fixes:
- Acknowledging an event with no alarms from the calendar
view would not always work
- Browse/Backup/Restore commands would not display under
Windows 98
- Outlook syncing to non-default calendar would fail to
remove events deleted in Outlook
April 2, 2007 version 4.4:
[download version 4.4:
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Outlook |
Outlook_2007
| Palm]
(For licensing purposes the
release date of 4.4 remains the same as version 4.3 (March 28, 2007) since this
release is strictly a maintenance release.)
- Bug fix - Program could crash when selecting an event with a
large amount of notes
March 28, 2007 version 4.3:
- New Backup and Restore menu commands. See "File /
Backup..." and "File / Restore...".
- Added support for using Windows Vista's "Default Programs" to
assign Remind-Me as the default handler for iCalendar (*.ics) files
- Eliminated "flickering" in the status bar when running under
Vista
- Bug fix - List view sorting wasn't always sorting properly if
the list view columns had been changed from the default order
- Updated for Windows Vista
- New Outlook 2007 conduit available
- Updated Daylight Savings Time events for new times starting in
2007
- New events are selected in the list view after being added
- Added option to control whether calendar selection date is moved
when adding new events (File / Options... / Other / Move Selected
Calendar Date When Adding Events)
- When adding built-in holidays to the calendar, now have the
option of only adding the missing ones
- Warning issued when adding holidays that already exist on the
calendar
- Alarm List column sorting preferences are memorized
independently from the main list view
- When deleting an event from the list view, maintain the
selection, or select adjacent entry
- Added current version and release date information into "Help /
Register..." dialog
- Bug fixes:
- Birthday and anniversary ages over 100 years old were
not displaying proper suffix
- Column width preferences for list view were not being
memorized across sessions
- Acknowledging an event from the Alarm List was not
refreshing calendar display, to show the event in the
acknowledged color
February 9, 2006 version 4.1:
[download version 4.1:
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Palm]
(For licensing purposes the
release date of 4.1 remains the same as version 4.0 (2/4/06) since this
release is primarily a maintenance release.)
- Added "Alarm List..." item to tray
popup menu
- Memorize "custom colors" palette
from session to session
- Bug fixes:
- Snoozing was being allowed
when "Quit After Displaying Due Alarms" option was on.
Disabled snooze option in this case.
- Preferences were not being
saved on computer shutdown
- Eliminated message box in
"File / Options... / Import" when there is no default
iCalendar (*.ics) handler
- In some cases the Find...
command could cause the program to crash
- In some cases printing could
cause the program to crash
February 4, 2006 version 4.0:
[download version 4.0:
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Outlook |
Palm]
- "Snooze" the alarm list for any
amount of time
- Bring up current alarm list at any
time with "View / Alarm List"
- Full support for iCalendar files:
import, export, forward by email, and drag and drop
- Printing improvements:
- Print preview
- List style can print any
fields in any order. Adjust with "View / List
Columns..."
- Grid and shading options for
List print style
- Print either selected or
displayed events
- New "Details" style
printing. Print selected, displayed, for a specific
date, or just a certain event.
- Right mouse menu shortcuts
for fast printing
- Preferences memorized from
session to session
- Copy and paste events
- Drag and drop events on the calendar
to move or copy
- Adjust colors for prior/next month,
weekends, and acknowledged event text
- Optionally loop alarm sounds until
dismissed
- List view improvements:
- Select multiple events from
the List view at once (useful for
deleting/acknowledging/printing multiple events at once)
- Font size, style, and color
of List view text is now adjustable
- More possible List view
fields. Customize which fields to display, and their
order with "View / List Columns..."
- Email improvements:
- Mail merge (customize
subject and message body per event)
- Customizable subjects for
each event type
- Send email to multiple
recipients
- The "To" field no longer
sets the "display name" to the event name, just uses email
address
- Option to start calendar week
display with any day (Sun, Mon, ...)
- Scheduled event repeat options shown
in the title of the Event Information dialog
- Added "Selected" and "Displayed"
event count to the status bar
- When displaying multiple alarm
dialogs, they are now offset to be seen easier
- Option to add default set of US
holidays onto calendar
- New installation program
- Support for multiple users on a
single computer. Changed default location of data file from
installation folder to C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>\Application Data\Remind-Me.
- Slightly increased size of alarm
list dialog
- Improved robustness against
corrupted data file (mydata.bdy). Changes are now saved when
made, and not at computer shutdown.
- Outlook Conduit improvements:
- Automatically synchronize
every X minutes option
- Select which Outlook
calendar to synchronize with
- Increased the number of stored
automatic backups to 30
- Modern "XP" style visual theme
appearance
- Online help updated to be HTML based
- Bug fixes:
- Keyboard accelerators were
not working if List view had keyboard focus
- Some color settings may not
have displayed properly
September 3, 2004 version 3.9:
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- Added option to always bring the
alarm window to the foreground. See "File / Options... /
Prompts / Always Bring Alarm Window to Foreground".
- Added mouse wheel support.
Rotating the mouse wheel behaves like the up/down arrow keys.
July 7, 2004 version 3.8:
- Removed all email addresses from
documentation, replaced with contact form at
www.beiley.com/contact.html. Attempting to address spam
problems...
February 16, 2004 version 3.7:
- All calendar colors user adjustable.
See "File/Options.../Colors".
- Significantly decreased size of
download package.
- When changing the start time, the
end time updates automatically to keep the duration of the event
constant.
- Comments edit box changed to
auto-wrap instead of auto-scroll.
- After editing an event from the
list, it always stays visible, rather than possibly getting scrolled
out of view.
- Fixes in
Outlook conduit for Outlook 2003, more robust loading/unloading.
- bug fix: Auto-Backup was not always
working if Remind-Me was exited during computer shutdown.
- bug fix: List view column order
would revert to the default from the set preferences in some cases.
- bug fix: Printing a calendar would
sometimes print the wrong month/year.
- Upgrade policy changed. New
users will receive free upgrades for 1 year. All currently
registered users are grand-fathered, and will continue to
receive free upgrades for life.
September, 9, 2003 version 3.6:
- Added option to send
E-Mail reminders using SMTP server
- Install/Uninstall
improvements (greater reliability)
- bug fix:
Grandparent's Day corrected to the first Sunday
after Labor Day
July 22, 2003 version 3.5:
- Improved Outlook
syncing. Fixed situation that could cause sync to
fail.
- Option to not use "SMTP:" in MAPI
address for some AOL/Netscape versions.
- Warned if entered
event doesn't have any occurrences
- Improved reliability
of setting task tray icon
April 21, 2003 version 3.4:
- bug fix: The "T"
key was mapped to multiple shortcuts (Today
and alTernate palm conduit).
Changed shortcut for alterNate
palm conduit to "Ctrl + N".
April 19, 2003 version 3.3:
- bug fix: incorrect
font used when printing event time on calendars
April 12, 2003 version 3.2:
- support for optional
add-on: "Remind-Me Conduit for Outlook"
- synchronize
your Remind-Me calendar with Outlook (2000
or later)
- event search feature
(see "Edit/Find...")
- specify the
foreground/background colors of an event
- specify whether to
draw a border around an event
- see the
"Display" tab in the event
editor
- e-mail body filled in
with event information
- optional command line
argument to specify location of data file
- improved autoback
feature; rotates through 10 backup copies
- keyboard shortcut to
hide window to task tray (Ctrl + H)
- selected date moved
to current date at midnight
- Palm conduit
improvement: toggle in/out an alternate conduit
- allows
syncing your Palm with second conduit,
such as Palm Desktop
- bug fix: fixed
printing when printer name was longer than 32
characters
March 6, 2002 version 3.1:
- support for "timed"
scheduled events
- more space for
recording comments
January 11, 2002 version 3.0:
- support for optional
add-on: "Remind-Me Conduit for Palm"
- synchronize
your Remind-Me calendar with your Palm
Pilot
- improved flexibility
for repeating events
- repeat every
X years option
- remove
particular occurrences
- background color of
calendar is adjustable
- see "File/Options.../Other"
- option to purge
completed events over X days old
- see "File/Options.../Other"
- time controls display
based on user's regional settings
- automatic data backup
on exit
- option to print in
black and white for color printers
- events on same
calendar day are displayed sorted by time
November 10, 2001 version 2.4:
- bug fix - scheduled
monthly event repeating >1 months not always
correct
- "Shop Online"
button removed from alarm dialog
April 14, 2001 version 2.3:
- bug fix - time could
be off by an hour for 1 week after DST
December 6, 2000 version 2.2:
- bug fix relating to
scheduled events and leap years
December 5, 2000 version 2.1:
- bug fix relating to
scheduled events and leap years
May 15, 2000 version 2.0:
- greatly improved
flexibility for scheduled events
- option to launch
another program when an alarm is due
- capability to add/edit/delete
holidays
- list view
improvements
- column being
sorted by has an arrow in its header
- re-order
columns by dragging them to their new
position
- convenient forward
and backward buttons in the calendar header
- option to control
default acknowledgement state of arrived events
- event comments
displayed in status bar when highlighted
- convenient "Shopping"
button added to alarm dialog brings up your
browser
- other miscellaneous
improvements
September 18, 1999 version 1.8:
- bug fix, minimized
main window causes alarm dialog to not display
properly
June 13, 1999 version 1.7:
- "Test"
button in event editor on e-mail tab
- added support for
MAPI e-mail profiles
- default new event
type is same as last added
- removed display of
"Current Age" field for Holidays and
Scheduled Events
- bug fixes
- changing font
error
- bad subject
in scheduled event e-mail
- Secretaries'
Day calculation
January 30, 1999 version 1.6:
- uses date format
specified in Window's regional settings
- bug fix for "Days
Until" calculation
December 8, 1998 version 1.5:
- fixed bug where time
alarm only events could sometimes not be
displayed
- added keyboard
shortcut to reset all acknowledgments
November 24, 1998 version 1.4 (skipped
1.3):
- prevents multiple
instances from running at the same time
- bug fixes
- quit after
startup option wasn't working
- end date
check for scheduled events not properly
initialized
October 3, 1998 version 1.2:
- added more keyboard
shortcuts
- bug fixes
September 12, 1998 version 1.1:
- fixed bug with Sound
Recorder window position under Win98
August 19, 1998 version 1.0
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