Although MacSchedule looks simple, it has substantial intelligence built into it, making the creation and maintenance of schedules nearly painless. MacSchedule's main limitation is that it can produce only Gantt charts, but that's not too big a problem, since they are an industry standard and most people can understand them intuitively.
MacSchedule is gruphics oriented and always uses the same basic form, which is then filled in, added to, and modified as necessary to produce the schedule you want. When you update, the same tools you used to create the schedule are there to help you change it.
Projects and jobs are planned visually. Tasks or subtasks are listed in the leftmost column, and you then use the tools provided to indicate when the tasks are to occur.
Schedules can be divided yearly, quarterly, monthly, biweekly, weekly, or daily. You can also omit the time notation to create free-form schedules.
MacSchedule doesn't limit your plans to your screen size. Quick-acting horizontal and vertical scroll bars are provided. If you have a screen larger than the standard Mac Plus or SE display, you can enlarge the working window to use the full area available. If you then open the schedule on a Mac with a smaller screen, the window will automatically resize itself to fit.
The header lines normally show dates. The four control arrows in the upper-right corner (next to the Toolbox) shift the time scales to whatever is appropriate for your schedule. You can also paste a graphic into the area above the task titles. Just keep in mind that whatever you paste will be scaled down to fit into that rather small rectangle.
The actual task lines are created using the Toolbox (in the upper-right corner of each document) and the Options, Symbol, and Fill menus. The Options menu lets you control what your schedule actually shows. You also use this menu to date-stamp tasks.
add headers, narrow the columns (to fit more on a given page), and extend the lime line to multiple pages. The Symbol menu lets you select from a set of predefined starting and ending symbols. The bottom item on the menu allows you to create custom symbols using a FatBits-like editor. The Fill menu gives you a choice of either a gray or black fill pattern. There is no color support in this version.
Once you have a schedule, you can copy, cut, paste, insert, or delete lines as needed. If your lines are numbered, MacSchedule will renumber them as necessary to account for additions or deletions.
Task bars can be very simple or quite complex with many overlaid milestones. The ability to combine overlay symbols with a variety of fills makes for great versatility.
Text and titles can be added anywhere you want them. However, each text string is limited to a maximum of 30 characters, so it's hard to add long notes without going into another program. Text that is placed over the grid (assuming you've left the grid turned on) can be hard to read, so MacSchedule thoughtfully provides a Clean option to block out the grid lines behind text.
The Font and Style menus offer normal fonts and a limited range of styles (plain, bold, italic, underline, outline, and shadow) and sizes (9 to 18 points). You can also align any text string to the left or right of its field, or you can center it in the field.
Schedules can be linked to other schedules — particularly useful when a schedule has more information than can be conveniently shown on a single page. MacSchedule lets you structure the information using a scries of top-down, hierarchical links that the program itself creates under your guidance. Linked files are accessed by either clicking a task title (to move down to a subordinate schedule) or clicking the close box (to link up a level). You can print whole sets of schedules using the Print Nest or Print All commands. Links can be edited if necessary.
The somewhat restricted format is both the program's strongest and weakest point. In its favor, this format makes for a program that is simple to learn and use and very powerful. On the negative side, the restrictions may make the program unsuitable for your job. MacSchedule may not be perfect, but it should be considered by anyone who has to plan and coordinate jobs and projects.
Paden, Jake. (May 1989). MacProject. MacUser. (pg. 62).
Bob Petty
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Mini vMac
