# The BORG Calendar and Task Tracker HELP

This Help system does not list every single feature of BORG. Anything that BORG does that is not listed here is either something obvious, or something that is mistakenly missing.

BORG has 4 main parts:

- The Calendar, which manages appointments and “to do” items.

- The Task Tracker, which manages complex tasks.

- The Address Book

- Memos

There is a vast difference between a “to do” and a Task, and between the “to do” functionality of the calendar versus the Task Tracker. A “to do” is simply a calendar event that also will show up on a list of things to do in addition to appearing in the calendar. When the user marks an item on the to do list as done, it is removed from the list. That’s all that you do with to do’s, you mark them as done.

A Task is quite different. The Task Tracker functionality actually grew out of the need to track software development tasks and has more in common with a software enhancement/bug tracking system than a calendar. The task tracker can track different tasks through user tunable states. The task types included with BORG by default include tasks to represent code development, document development, a generic task, and a generic issue (i.e. item that needs an answer). These task types and states can be customized. For example, the author of this program has a “Borg Release” task type that contains the associated states and sub-tasks involved in producing and releasing this program.

The Address book and Memo parts of BORG were developed to replace the functionality of the Palm desktop address book and memo applications so that Palm users could eliminate the need to use the Palm desktop. As of release 1.7.2, the Palm sync functionality is no longer supported, but the address and memo features remain.

Please refer to specific help sections for more information about the program.