User Guide for the Kitara:GENESIS Today Screen plug-in for Pocket PC

Here's a quick demonstration of some of the different ways in which the Kitara:GENESIS plug-in can display your data, and which Options to configure in each case. Note that while these screenshots show all types of data, you can actually turn on or off the any major type (hide Tasks, for instance, or only show events like Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Holidays).

How do you want to see your data? Click on the screenshot below to be taken to the configuration details:


1. Single list		2. Two separately scrollable lists


3. Date dividers turned on		4. Icons turned off


5. Drop shadowed text

These are just some of the more popular configurations. The Kitara:GENESIS(TM) plug-in has plenty of settings and display formatting options, so feel free to experiment! Even though you might not be able to realize your own the perfect view of data, you'll be surprised at how close you can get!

Don't really care about Tasks? Haven't taken the time to deal with Holidays? Whatever your specific desires for exactly what data shows up on your Today Screen, you can use the "Data Types" page to make that choice!

Open the Options dialog by tapping and holding on the plug-in's title line, and choose "Options..." from the context menu that appears. Then activate the "General" tab, and tap the "Show data types..." button to make your final decisions:

The Kitara:GENESIS(TM) plug-in has built-in support for displaying Outlook Holidays with corresponding icons. Essentially, the plug-in contains a user-editable list associating a Holiday name (the "subject" of the Appoinment representing the Holiday) and an icon name. When there's a match, the appropriate icon will be used instead of the "default" Holiday icon.

We ship the plug-in with icon associations for a few countries, but it's easy to set up your own Holiday icons. The simplest way is to wait for the given Holiday to appear on your Today Screen, and tap & hold on the icon to bring up the Icon Chooser. For Holidays, an extra option labelled "Add Holiday" appears. If you check this box, whatever icon you choose will be added to the associatioin list.

To add a Holiday set to your Outlook Calendar / Agenda, launch the desktop version of Outlook. Select "Options..." from the Tools menu. Click on the "Calendar options..." button and then the "Add Holidays..." button. Put a check mark next to the Holiday sets you want to add and click OK. Congratulations! The next time you sync your device, your requested Holidays will show up in your Pocket Outlook data.

The above information should help you get up and running with the software. For more detailed information, including how to add your own icons and use the linking feature, please refer to the help file: