First Things First™ is a Time Management Utility that goes a step beyond System 7 -- while remaining compatible with System 6! This is why the MUG News Service has picked it as their “1991 Utility of the Year!”
Starting with a revolutionary technology called a Floating Icon, FTF is fast and convenient. Try this demo. Even if you don’t order the real thing, you’ll derive value from a Floating Clock-Icon that stays on top of any application or window wherever you choose to put it.
Easily keeping track of projects and appointments, with the help of skillful reminders, is central to effective time-management. Most programs are too weak, too intrusive, too hard to use and too slow. Not FTF.
First Things First™ helps you keep abreast of a busy schedule with the ultimate ease. The Floating Clock-Icon™ and information-rich views make it by far the fastest and easiest personal projects and reminder utility.
Use a hot-key or double-click on a 3-D clock. It’s never been easier to instantly schedule tasks, appointments and reminders – to more easily manage a very busy schedule. At $69.95, this useful tool is vastly underpriced. Check it out for yourself.
You’ll wonder how you ever managed without this inexpensive tool!
FTF Importer™ is an application which imports reminders from SmartAlarms and Alarming Events into your First Things First file. This utility is available for free to all purchasers of FTF. Call us now at (503) 246-6200 to place your order for a full version of FTF.
Try some of the shortcuts listed below and you will become addicted to the fastest personal time tool available on any platform.
••••• First Things First™ Feature Set & Command Summary
FTF is always at your fingertips and easy to use – just click on the Floating Icon™ or use the Hot Key of your choice (default is Shift-Cmd-F).
To fully exercise FTF, browse through the following list of features, hints, tips and shortcuts (they're simple and logical):
••• Clock in reduced form (digital, menubar height so it fits in menubar):
- Single click toggles date/time;
- Click-drag changes position (NOTE: any overlap with menubar will snap to full menubar overlap unless you are holding the shift key down when you release the mouse);
- Double-Click or your designated HotKey opens main editing window;
- Shift-click zooms clock into expanded form (using last type of expanded display you set, analog or digital).
••• Clock in expanded form (digital or analog):
- Cmd-click changes between digital and analog displays;
- Shift-click zooms clock to back to its last reduced location;
- Click-drag changes position (NOTE: Exception: if the position of the clock when you release the mouse button has any overlap with the menubar and you are NOT holding down the shift key, the clock will be reduced and the reduced position will become the horizontal point of drag but snapped into the menubar);
- Double-click or HotKey (Shift-Cmd-F) opens main editing window.
••• Main Editing Window:
- Cmd-R (when new button is enabled) is same as clicking on New button and selecting Reminder type to create;
- Cmd-T (when new button is enabled) is same as clicking on New button and then selecting a ToDo type as the type to create;
- Clicking on clock and date icon (lower right) brings up Settings dialog;
- Cmd-A selects the "All Categories" category menu choice;
- Clicking on the balloon icon (lower left) brings up About… dialog;
- Option-click on balloon icon (IF IN DEMO MODE) will bring up the serial number entering dialog box so you can register DEMO copy;
- Cmd-N (when new button is enabled) is same as clicking on New button (brings up the What Type dialog box);
- Cmd-S saves changes to the reminders list, same as Save button but leaves dialog open;
- Return/Enter equals Save button;
- Escape key equals Cancel button;
- Double-clicking on a list item is equivalent to clicking once to select and item and then clicking on the Edit button;
- Cmd-P for print...;
- Cmd-C copies the selected item;
- Cmd-V pastes the clipboard to an item IF you are not currently in the All Categories view (we can't here because which category to put it in is ambiguous and everything MUST be in a category). It always adds the item to the currently viewed category with following behavior for different clipboard contents:
a) Just text in clipboard:
- will create a new ToDo item containing the text and with no
time specified.
b) A ToDo or Reminder in clipboard (really in a private clipboard,
only the text is exported to global clipboard):
- will add the item to the current category, leaving it marked
done if it was previously marked done.
c) picture etc...
-will tell you that there is nothing to paste.
- Cmd-X cuts (copy and delete) an item;
- Delete key deletes and item (same as Remove button);
- Option-Delete deletes item without warning dialog;
- Option-Remove button also deletes item without warning dialog.
>> Note that the Remove button becomes Completed when you have the Save Done Items set in the Settings/Preferences dialog box.
When Save Done Items is enabled then you can hold the Cmd key down to change the Completed button to a Remove button (so selectively not save a particular item). You can also hold down the option key to avoid delete dialog (i.e., Option-Cmd + click on button changes it to Remove and avoids warning dialog for delete). You can also set FTF to Skip Delete Warnings in the Settings dialog.
••• Create a New… Dialog (after clicking on New or hitting Cmd-N ):
- Tab key toggles between the icons for the two types of items;
- Return/Enter maps to the OK button;
- Escape maps to the Cancel button;
- Dbl-click on icon selects that Icon and then the OK button.
••• Edit ToDo item dialog (dbl-clicking on a ToDo item, New… ToDo, Cmd-T etc.):
- Return/Enter maps to the OK button;
- Escape maps to the Cancel button;
- Cmd-R maps to Remind Me button;
- Tab toggles between "No Specific time" and "Should be done by".
••• Edit Reminder dialog
- Return/Enter maps to the OK button;
- Escape maps to the Cancel button.
••• Save Changes dialog (comes up when you hit cancel and have made changes):
- Return/Enter and Cmd-Y map to the Yes button;
- Escape and Cmd-C map to the Cancel button;
- Cmd-N maps to the No button.
••• In most other alerts/dialogs
- Return/Enter keys map to OK or default button;
- Escape maps to Cancel button ( not all dialogs ).
••• Holding down the Shift key during boot-up aborts load of
