Review of SBSH Papyrus application from SBSH Mobile Software
The SBSH Papyrus application allows you to manage your busy life with your mobile phone. Papyrus is a robust time management solution for Symbian series 60 devices. Papyrus offers smart views and powerful tools to manage and keep track of your schedule and tasks.
Here is brief information about the application to be analyzed:
| App name | Vendor | Price | Size, Kb |
|---|---|---|---|
| SBSH Papyrus | SBSH Mobile Software | Buy $19.95 | 883 |
We analyzed the following list of aspects and application details:
• Installation
• Trial period
• Settings
• Help and Support
• Application in action
• Special features
The application is quickly and easily installed if you follow the instructions on the screen of the mobile phone.
Papyrus application offers the trial version which lasts 12 days, during which you can try it before purchasing.
Papyrus suggests a wide range of settings which can be modified:
General:
• Default view – to select the default view of the Papyrus application
• Views rotation button – to select the views available in the views rotation button
• Fullscreen on – to choose which views you want to show up as fullscreen
• Week count start – set the date of the week count start
• Week start on – select the day of the week start on
• Compact editors – turn on/off compact editors
• Use antialiased
• Default alarm value – to select the default alarm value
• Default sync value – to select the default sync value
• Sync options – to choose the sync options
Daily:
• Timeline bar – to set the position of the timeline bar on the screen
• Text size – to select the text size
• Text color as – to choose the text color
• Leading rect
• Multiline – to select the multiline information displaying or not
• Background – to select the background
List:
• Text size – to select the text size
• Day title size – to select size of the day title
• Text color as – to choose the text color
• Leading rect
• View start on – to select the view to start on
• Empty days – you can choose to show, hide or auto collapse empty days
• Multiline – to select the multiline information displaying or not
Grid:
• Layout – to select the layout
• Timeline bar – to set the position of the timeline bar on the screen
• Text size – to select the text size
• Day title size – to select size of the day title
• Text color as – to choose the text color
• Leading rect
• View start on – to select the view to start on
Monthly:
• Include quick list – you can choose to include the quick list or not
• Quick list text size – to select the quick list text size
• Use week number – you can choose to display the week number or not
• First week rule
• Include on view – you can choose to include timelines, category icons or both on the view
• Empty timelines – you can choose to show or hide empty timelines
• Text color as – to choose the text color
• Leading rect
• Discard from view
Tasks View:
• Tasks date format – to select the tasks date format
• Preview text size – to select the preview text size
• Text size – to choose the text size
• Day title size – to choose the day text size
• Text color as – to choose the text color
• Leading rect
• Include preview pane – you can choose to include preview pane or not
• Overdue time frame – to select the overdue time frame
• Future time frame – to select the future time frame
Tasks:
• Tasks on calendar – you can choose to display tasks on calendar or not
• Add overdue today – you can choose to add overdue or not
• Add U.D. today – you can choose to add U.D. today or not
• Confirm completion – to activate completion confirmation or not
• Show active tasks – you can choose to display active tasks or not
• Show completed – you can choose to show the completed tasks as visible, invisible or crossed out
• Show completed on – you can choose to show the completed tasks on due date, complete date or both
Categories:
This menu allows you to select the needed categories, to set color and icon for each of them and to add new categories.
Font type:
Here you can select the font type of the application.
Color settings:
Choose color for each line of every application view.
Import birthdays:
You can import birthdays from your Nokia contacts into the calendar as “special” anniversaries.
Papyrus application has no Help file, which is very uncomfortable, because the application has many options, which are not always comprehensible; e-mail (support@sbsh.net) is to contact a developer in case of any questions or suggestions.
The support department of this application didn’t respond to our e-mail.
When opening the application you can see the main screen:
At first application start it contains no appointments.
Left soft key Options of the main screen offers the following list of buttons:
• New
o Meeting
o Task
o All day
o Anniversary
o Reminder
• Go to date – to get over to the specific date
• Views – to select the smart view
o List
o Grid
o Monthly
o Tasks
o Daily
• Filter
• Settings – to modify settings fields
• Exit – exits the application
Having created though one appointment the main screen will have the following view:
You can view the appointment in details and edit it just clicking on it:
When being activated the appointment has the following view on the screen:
Papyrus application has many interesting features, among which:
• Single-line layout or multi-line layout for optimized display on landscape screens
• Today’s events all on your screen
• Joint display for both appointments and tasks
• View alarm, private, note and recurring status icons for each of your items
• View category icons and leading rectangles for each item according to the selected categories
• Customize text size, color based on item’s characters, item display layout
Papyrus is a full featured product that works with your phone’s calendar and task data. There are multiple views (Daily, Grid, Monthly, Tasks) with configuration options for all of them. Extremely useful is the ability to change the font size for each view: you can determine your own balance of readability vs. quantity of information displayed. Papyrus uses the same data as the phone’s built-in calendar, you don’t need to re-enter or even import any of the data from the existing calendar. The application is very interesting and useful.