In Control started life as a well-received outliner and to-do list manager that let you add multiple cells of data to each line in an outline. The cells allowed you to add dates, comments, or pop-up lists of data to each outline heading. In Control 2.0 added a calendar, but it was far less capable than competing calendar products. Version 3.0’s main enhancement is a greatly improved calendar.
In Control 3.0 gives you more ways to view your data. In addition to the outline and monthly calendar views, there is now a day view that shows a detailed breakdown of the day’s events and todo’s. There’s also a new weekly view and a combo view, which lets you display the calendar in weekly or monthly view and outline in the same window. The calendar is now completely integrated with the outline, and you can enter and edit data in any view. You can also drag items from one view to another. When you update data in one view, the program updates the data in all other views. The program also lets you change the style and appearance of a view, including background colors and font size, style, and color.
Version 3.0 supports recurring events, banners to denote multiday events in the month and week views, and reminder alarms. Uncompleted to-do items carry forward automatically to the next day. In Control lets you check off events as completed, so you can search your calendar for unkept appoinUiients. And the program can dial telephone numbers using a separate small Apple events-controlled Dialer application. You simply highlight a phone number and click on the Dial button to dial the number through a modem or through the Mac speaker.
The calendar’s day view shows the day in configurable time slots (15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour). Scheduled events go into the time slots, and a busy bar next to the event indicates when you are busy. In Control displays a conflict bar next to the overlapping events...
In Control’s new QuickStep feature lets you create macros for functions such as switching views, sorting, finding, and printing. You create a QuickStep by clicking on options in the QuickStep dialog box, or by having In Control watch and record as you perform a series of steps.
Another new feature is Database Lookup. This Apple events-based feature allows In Control to look up and copy data from Claris’s FileMaker Pro 2.1, Portfolio Software’s Dynodex 3.5, Now Software’s Now Contact 1.0, and Aldus Consumer Division’s TouchBase Pro 4.0 into an In Control cell. For example, you could select a name in an In Control view and have Database Lookup go to a contact file in FileMaker Pro, find that name, copy the phone number, and then paste the number into the phone cell in your In Control document. This feature worked well with FileMaker Pro and TouchBase Pro, but less well with Dynodex. Dynodex doesn’t implement support for Apple events as completely as FileMaker Pro, so fewer of Dynodex’s fields are accessible to In Control. You have to copy the whole Dynodex record, as opposed to a particular Dynodex field, thus making Database Lookup close to useless with Dynodex. I was not able to test In Control with Now Contact.
In Control also has a few oddities. For example, you cannot duplicate events in the calendar while holding down a modifier key, a feature that is common in competing programs. You can drag and drop items between different views, but you cannot copy across views, even through the Clipboard.
The Last Word
Personal organizers are, above all, a personal choice. In Control is an excellent to-do list manager and outliner, coupled with a good calendar. If you live or die by a to-do list, I recommend In Control.
Negrino, Tom. (October 1994). In Control 3.0.4. Macworld. (pg. 67).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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