General Settings. Go to Preferences > Notifications to edit general settings.

Task-Specific Settings. If under preferences > notifications, you have chosen “notify about selected tasks only”, then the default setting for “Notify me” (for each task) is unchecked. You may check or uncheck “Notify me” for any individual task.

Warning. If under preferences > notifications, you chose “notify me about ALL tasks”, then you cannot unselect “Notify me” for any particular task.

What Is It?

The Weekly Template is the basic structure of your week. Your week is divided into category time-blocks (Sleep, Exercise, Classes, Chores, Family Time...). This color-coded template is also super-imposed over your daily and weekly calendar views, giving you a broader context as you plan your day and schedule tasks and appointments. Your personal Template also guides the Auto Plan in creating a customized schedule.

Creating and Editing Categories

Before building your Weekly Template, you must first create a set of time-categories which encompass the various tasks and “sacred times” (Sleep, Family Time...) that constitute your week. If you are new to Skoach and choosing categories for the first time, we suggest letting the Welcome Wizard guide you. This wizard will suggest categories based on your responsibilities (student, parent, employed...). Click on Wizards > Welcome Wizard. For more details, see the section on Welcome Wizard.

In general, if you are just adding/deleting a few categories or changing category-settings, you will do so from the Weekly Template tab.

Adjacent to your Template is a list of your Time Categories, from where you can add, delete, and edit.

Building & Editing Your Template

Drag categories onto your week to begin building your Template.

You can then drag and stretch these blocks to add more time or to spread across multiple days.

To delete a single time block or change its category, right-click on the block. ( For Mac: CTRL-click)

Click on any task to view or edit task details:

• Completed
• Notes
• Checklist
• Task Name
• Date Range/ Scheduled Time
• Recurrence
• Duration
• Reminder

Skoach can export appointments to iCal-compatible applications, including Google Calendar and MS Outlook 2007. On your Skoach page, click on Plug-ins > iCal, and then copy your unique URL. You will need to paste this URL into the target application. Follow target application’s instructions on where to paste this URL and whether there are any other settings you need to customize. Note: iCal synchronization is one-way; Skoach will not import appointments from other applications.

Google Calendar. Here’s a quick step-by step guide to sync to Google Calendar:

1. In your Skoach application, go to Plug-ins > iCal.
2. Click on iCal and copy the URL address.
3. Go to Google Calendar.
4. Find the "add" link under the "other calendars" list (on the bottom left of the Google Calendar screen).
5. Click on "add"
6. Click on "Add by URL"
7. Paste the URL you had copied into the text field.
8. Click "Add" and you are done!

What does it do?

The Welcome Wizard is the first one to greet you when you sign-on to Skoach for the first time. It helps to set you up with: · Emailed task-reminders · Scheduled Daily Planning session · Time Categories · Weekly Template

Walk through

1. Setup Reminders and schedule your daily planning session. The daily planning session is an important part of effective time-management. At your chosen time, the daily planning wizard will walk you through a quick review of overdue tasks and prompt you to think about preparations you may need to make for upcoming projects and events.

2. Select a role. Skoach will use this information to tailor a suggested list of appropriate time-categories. You can always go back and change your role; just choose the closest fit.

3. Skoach proposes a category-list. Check the ones you want. Unchecked categories will be discarded.

4. Customize category list and build your Weekly Template. (See Weekly Template for more details.)