The GUI itself is very attractive and is divided into two panes. The upper pane holds a planner view that shows you the entire year. The lower pane shows the format in which you've chosen to show data, or print from.

As you can see in Figure B, right now you have no data. That's because you haven't chosen any schedules to monitor yet. This is done on the People tab.

Populating your tribe
On the People tab you have your Add, Edit, and Delete buttons. You also have an Add Me button to get yourself going quickly. The Add button brings up a dialog box (shown in Figure C) that allows you to choose anyone in your address books.

FIGURE C


Choose the members of your tribe. Roll over picture for a larger image.

My Domino domain also has Directory Assistance enabled, and IntelliPLAN found all four directories without a problem. Once you add a user, it downloads the calendar information into the background. This makes you wait a few seconds before hitting the Add button again to add additional users, which is a minor annoyance.

One nice thing about adding users is that you can place them into various groups according to your tastes. Later, you can use these groups to show different subsets of people on the main Planner screen.

Once you've added your users, it's time to go back to the Planner Tab. Now you'll see in Figure D that the landscape has changed a bit.

FIGURE D


Here's the Planner page in the Week Grid 1 format. Roll over picture for a larger image.

You can now see colors representing your users and their schedules for the entire year. The bottom pane is where the fun begins.

Have it your way
You can choose almost 20 different ways to view your calendar information. There is something for everyone here: weekly, daily and monthly views, GANNT charts, To Do lists, and more. Even better, they actually print out as well as they look on the screen, in both A4 and Letter formats.

The only gripe I have is that not all of the formats support the color-coding, and the few that do make very small use of the color bars. It would've been nice if you could adjust the width of the colored bars, or had names color-coded for printing purposes. Perhaps we'll see that in a future version.

As for other whims, you can tweak on the Preferences tab (as shown in Figure E) to your hearts content. Change column widths, colors, dates to display and anything else to fit into your mode of thinking.

FIGURE E


There are enough choices to make any tweaker happy. Roll over picture for a larger image.

IntelliPLAN allows you to do more than view and print this data; it allows you to manipulate it as well. You can actually create new appointments (as shown in Figure F) and edit existing ones all through the IntelliPLAN GUI.

FIGURE F


Creating new calendar entries is easy. Roll over picture for a larger image.

This, of course, is based on Notes security. You can't delete your boss's appointments, no matter how tempting it might be.

To create a new entry, you highlight one of your users, right click on a date, and choose New Activity or New To Do. You then fill out the pertinent information and IntelliPLAN plugs it right into the appropriate Notes calendar.