PsiSync and Using Agenda

If you have read the PsiTeach Agenda page, you will be planning how to set up your Agenda for your timetable. Backing up using PsiWin is a must, but what about using your desktop machine? After all, good though a Psion is, given the choice we'd all rather use a bigger screen and keyboard. If you are using a Series 3a/c or Siena and Microsoft Outlook 97 or 98 (but not Outlook Express) there is a shareware application which will synchronise the diaries in both applications, plus other functions (see my review for more details). It is well worth having, and good value, but there are some points on it's use worth noting. (Series 5 owners can synchronise from PsiWin 2.1)

• When you first set up the diary, it is easier to create in Agenda and then let PsiSync create the Outlook copy.
• Do not manually compress the Agenda file (or compress from PsiWin). PsiSync uses information about deleted records to update Outlook, and compressing strips that information out. Once a file is compressed, it needs rebuilding from scratch (exporting to a new file does not work)
• Each timetable entry is a repeating entry, however when you edit each lesson, Agenda breaks the repeat. Unfortunately Outlook doesn't support broken links, so when the diaries are synchronised, PsiSync copies the original repeated entry alongside the correct one. To avoid this, in the "Change Repeating Entry" dialogue, select "This and all future". Then move forward a week (Psion-right arrow) and delete the change. Select "This and all future" again.

If anyone uses the diary part of IBM Works for OS/2, click here for information on linking Agenda to that.

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