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Planbook Changelog

What's new in Planbook 4.4.2

Jul 22, 2015
  • Fixes an issue related to daylight savings time in November 2015.

New in Planbook 4.4.1 (Feb 2, 2015)

  • Fixes an issue adding courses to an existing school day
  • Fixes an issue restarting your rotation
  • Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Planbook 4.4 (Dec 6, 2014)

  • Month view works again in Yosemite.
  • Occassional crashes when adding courses or creating custom days are fixed.
  • The left-sidebar checkboxes show properly when running on Yosemite.
  • Printing should also work properly on Yosemite

New in Planbook 4.2.2 (Aug 12, 2013)

  • Adds a logout from PlanbookConnect menu item to help out teachers who want to use two different accounts with two Planbook files.
  • Fixes a bug that could, in rare cases, prevent Planbook files from being saved.
  • Fixes a bug on Mac OS 10.7 and earlier that prevented emailing or saving a PDF from a weekly report. OS X 10.8 was never affected by this issue.
  • Fixes an issue where the last course in the sidebar couldn't be toggled if the courses list filled the sidebar or caused it to scroll (generally 20+ courses).

New in Planbook 4.2.1 (Aug 12, 2013)

  • Fixes a bug that could make it difficult to show and hide courses.
  • Adds a "clear all lessons" feature to wipe out all lesson data but leave your schedule intact.
  • Updated the default file dates for the 2013-14 school year.

New in Planbook 4.2 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Finally, a new modern icon (retina-ready).
  • You can now restart a rotating schedule at any point in the year. After a long break, you can force Planbook to restart your schedule on a particular day of your rotation upon returning to school.
  • Keyboard shortcuts for http://www.planbookconnect.com syncing.
  • When adding a new assignment, it's selected for quick editing.
  • Documents should open much more quickly.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Resolves issue attaching files from Dropbox on a different computer.
  • Resolves issue publishing to HTML when files attached to the document include special characters.
  • Resolves issue where copied/pasted lessons might require re-authorizing access to the file (10.7+).
  • Resolves issue using library lessons with attachments.

New in Planbook 4.1.2 (Mar 14, 2013)

  • Emailing reports really works now.
  • An issue where the first lesson of the day might be selected when trying to select a later lesson (only a day in a different month was previously selected).
  • Fixes an issue removing standards.

New in Planbook 4.1.1 (Mar 6, 2013)

  • Planbook now reads and writes files compatible with the Windows version of Planbook. There are new menu items in the File menu to accomplish this.
  • Several issues with file attachments are fixed.
  • The toolbar can now be customized.
  • Reports can now be emailed without first generating a PDF.
  • Calendar syncing of daily notes is fixed.

New in Planbook 4.1.0 (Feb 27, 2013)

  • Planbook now reads and writes files compatible with the Windows version of Planbook. There are new menu items in the File menu to accomplish this.
  • Several issues with file attachments are fixed.
  • The toolbar can now be customized.
  • Reports can now be emailed without first generating a PDF.
  • Calendar syncing of daily notes is fixed.

New in Planbook 4.0.6 (Oct 2, 2012)

  • Fixes issue where the application might not respond properly to a quit command.

New in Planbook 4.0.5 (Aug 30, 2012)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a couple of bugs that increase the overall application stability.
  • Fixes a problem when updating certain old Planbook data files to the new format
  • Fixes Write Access errors when publishing HTML to an FTP server
  • Fixes an issue where custom days, when reused, might not place lessons in the appropriate time block
  • Fixed report formatting issues
  • Fixed bug where standards might not be included in the lesson output when publishing
  • Fixed issue where, in week view, lessons might extend off the bottom of the screen when displayed in a time grid
  • Additions:
  • Added keyboard shortcut to clear a lesson
  • Added option to show lesson titles (rather than course names) in month view (View menu)
  • Added option to show lesson times on the left side of a lesson block (View menu)
  • Added option to hide Assignment counts in a lesson block (View menu)

New in Planbook 4.0.1 (Aug 7, 2012)

  • Issues with assignment visibility in editing mode
  • Issues with the Lock/Unlock Button in editing mode
  • Issues bringing changes from the iPad version of Planbook to the Mac version.

New in Planbook 4.0 (Aug 6, 2012)

  • UI overhaul for a more modern and efficient interface.
  • Show days vertically (as was done in Planbook 3.x) or horizontally (like a more traditional paper Planbook).
  • Show days using a time grid (leaving empty spaces for breaks and setting the length of each lesson block proportionally to its duration).
  • Show/hide daily notes.
  • Anchoring lessons during bump/yank allows locking certain lessons in place.
  • Improved printing.
  • Improved access to units
  • Improved the ability to apply standards
  • Much improved calendar selector in the lower left corner.
  • Fixed issues with split views not remembering their width
  • Autosave and reversion to previous documents
  • Better access to the Library of lessons.
  • Copy and Paste in Month View.
  • More usable month view.
  • Planbook now implements the Application Sandbox for enhanced security.
  • Many bug fixes.

New in Planbook 3.1.1 (Jun 22, 2012)

  • Fixes a bug where new data files would default to the 2011-12 school year. Data files now default to standard dates in the 2012-13 school year.

New in Planbook 3.1 (Apr 25, 2012)

  • Makes changes to prepare for a future release that will support the new Application Sandbox.
  • Fixes an issue where bumping lessons might not happen in the correct order when there are two+ meetings of the same class on the same day.
  • The name of custom days now appears on the weekly report.
  • Units are now exported in the correct order
  • Focus is now given to a lesson that's pasted via drag and drop
  • The daily report now remembers the dates of your last report and sets the date appropriately when you open the report.

New in Planbook 3.0.4 (Nov 13, 2011)

  • Fixed issue where courses weren't refreshed in the reports when changing.
  • Issue where notes might not been permanently removed when deleting them has been fixed.
  • Improves display of times in the lesson views.
  • Fixed issue on Snow Leopard where the course name sidebar might not expand.

New in Planbook 2.6.6 (Oct 6, 2011)

  • Main View Features:
  • There's a new preference to give lessons amounts of space in the Week/Day view proportional to their length.
  • Left side sidebar revamped, courses expand to show units in the outline view. Looks much more "Mac" like.
  • The inspector has been removed, replaced by the new right side sidebar view that's accessible by clicking the gear icon in every day/week view lesson.
  • The lesson views in the day and week view now show the entirety of entered information and can be scrolled.
  • Assignments can now be managed from the Full Screen Editing Mode.
  • Scheduling Features:
  • You can now remove a course from a day (from the "gear" sidebar).
  • You can now quickly add a section of a course on a single day (from the gear sidebar).
  • You can now (on rotating schedules) add a class to every day of the week outside of your rotation. So, if you're on an A/B schedule but have Homeroom every single wednesday, regardless of rotation day, you can do that.
  • You can now add a course to a subset of the duration of the planbook file.
  • Library Features:
  • Lessons in the library are now universal to all files on that computer.
  • Copy/Paste Features:
  • You can now drag a lesson from one open planbook file into another open planbook file.
  • You can now copy and paste lessons from one Planbook file to another open Planbook file.
  • Lion Only Features:
  • There's a full screen mode for Lion users.
  • The Lion version automatically reopens all your files that were open when you last closed the application.
  • Unit Features:
  • Lessons may be dragged from the day or week view onto the units in the sidebar to assign that lesson to a unit.
  • The Units manager now lists the standards used in a unit.
  • Units may now be exported and imported.
  • Exporting a unit is done via the Tools-->Unit Manager menu item.
  • Importing a unit is done via the File-->Import Lessons menu item.
  • Report Features:
  • All the reports can now be instantly emailed from Planbook (using the new "Send as Email" button). This only works if you use Apple Mail as your email client.
  • All the reports can now be instantly saved as a PDF from Planbook (using the new "Save as PDF" button).
  • Some formatting improvements, mostly to the non-weekly reports.
  • iCal Features:
  • You can now select (from the Tools-->iCal Manager) which calendar each course should sync to. This includes networked calendars.
  • Publishing Features:
  • Assignments (and their files/links) are published via Local, FTP or MobileMe publishing.
  • Improvements:
  • Standards are no longer applied to a lesson by dragging from one table to another. Just check a box and its applied.
  • Custom days can now be named (when created)
  • Custom days can now be reused as needed saving the need to re-enter the custom schedules you've created.
  • Importing and exporting can now be done for a range of dates within a course (rather than only the entire course).
  • Time entry is now greatly simplified- no more 24 hr time. Planbook interprets any 1-4 digit time and determines AM or PM automatically (and intelligently, hopefully).
  • The Scrolling list of lessons at the top of the screen in full screen editing mode has better formatting.
  • The search results table is now hidden until you search
  • Custom days are now created non-destructively (that is, if you convert a day to a custom one and you've already got lesson information in a lesson that will remain in the custom day, it's preserved).
  • The file extension for attachments now shows in the table view.

New in Planbook 2.6.2 (Aug 25, 2010)

  • Changes:
  • You can now use a preference to prevent files with the publish box unchecked from being synced to PlanbookConnect. Currently files that have this box unchecked are synced, but are not visible to users of PlanbookConnect besides you. This preference will prevent them from being uploaded at all.
  • More information is shown in the Month View, if space allows. You have a preference to set the field to display in the Month View
  • A Clear All Lessons menu item has been added to the Edit menu. This will clear out every single lesson in your file. Useful after migration
  • Extends from 10 to 40 the list of available lessons for assignment due dates
  • Adds the ability to create a 15 day rotation
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a bug dealing with importing 2 column CSV files for standards
  • Fixes a problem adding HTTPS web links
  • Fixes a problem fetching the name of web pages with no name
  • Fixes an issue where the alert indicating where PlanbookConnect Sync progress can't be made to not reappear

New in Planbook 2.6.1 (Aug 17, 2010)

  • Fixes an issue with bumping and yanking lessons
  • Fixes an issue where pasted lessons were not marked for upload to PlanbookConnect

New in Planbook 2.6 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • Prepares Planbook for the release of Planbook for iPad.
  • Adds the ability to right click on lessons and attachments in the library to remove them.

New in Planbook 2.5.6 (Jul 9, 2010)

  • switches the defaults for new files to the 2010-11 school year
  • fixes a problem that could prevent the correct display of scroll bars on OS X 10.4

New in Planbook 2.5.3 (May 3, 2010)

  • fixes a bug that could cause days to be skipped when creating a new file

New in Planbook 2.5.2 (Apr 30, 2010)

  • Greatly increases the syncing to PlanbookConnect speed. A bug that could cause crashes when syncing on slower networks has also been resolved.

New in Planbook 2.5.1 (Apr 27, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • 2.5.1 adds the ability to show the number of assigned or due lessons directly in the week or day view.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • 2.5.1 fixes a bug that could prevent a course from printing via the Weekly Report
  • 2.5.1 fixes a bug that impacted the ability of users from Adelaide, Australia from creating files (Daylight Savings Issue)

New in Planbook 2.5 (Mar 26, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Adds the ability to sync your Planbook file and attachments to PlanbookConnect for the purpose of viewing your file online and sharing your planbook information with others. Free account required. Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 required.
  • Adds the ability to create homework assignments with assigned and due dates. Assignments can also have links or handouts.
  • Users may provide feedback via an application menu item (Help --> Send Feedback). Easily send bug reports, feedback or feature requests.
  • Adds the ability via a preference to have backup copies of your file saved in a different directory when saving
  • Adds the ability to right click on a course in the left sidebar to show only that course.
  • Enabled the ability to use lessons as a "template" for other lessons via a right click on the lesson
  • Enhancements:
  • Attachments and lessons in the library are now sorted alphabetically
  • Greatly improves the display of lessons in the month view.
  • Ctrl-f brings up the search field
  • Improved copy and paste, especially dealing with attachments
  • Added a number of keyboard shortcuts to aide navigation
  • Added the ability to show and hide the left sidebar to increase the amount of space available for lesson entry
  • Adds the ability to remove attachments and assignments by right clicking on them.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Bug fixed that could cause crash on startup when opening a file.
  • Fixes an issue where importing lessons into a rotating schedule caused the lessons to be off by a day
  • Fixes an issue when using the calendar to select a day that does not include lessons
  • Fixes a case where iCal sync preferences were not obeyed.
  • Addresses an issue where non-nglish date systems caused issues with the web pages created with Planbook

New in Planbook 2.1.7 (Oct 26, 2009)

  • Fixes an issue with conflicting keyboard shortcuts.

New in Planbook 2.1.6 (Oct 20, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • A "view" menu has been added, allowing navigation using keyboard shortcuts and menu commands
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Improves typing responsiveness on PowerPC based machines.

New in Planbook 2.1.3 (Sep 3, 2009)

  • Fixes a problem where trial users on Snow Leopard could not add additional information after saving and reopening.
  • The units report is now ordered by date.
  • When deleting a unit, it is now fully deleted from your Planbook.

New in Planbook 2.1.2 (Sep 1, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed regarding the publish setup and reports menu.
  • The standards outline view should behave better in the Inspector.

New in Planbook 2.0.6 (Aug 11, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Units may be added, deleted and renamed from the Units Manager in the Tools menu.
  • Double clicking a lesson in the month view takes you to the full screen editing mode.
  • Files may now be dragged from the OS X Finder into the Library.
  • Files and Web Links may now be dropped onto a lesson in the week/day view to attach.
  • A preference has been added to show the inspector on startup.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • A problem changing times on non-rotating schedules with custom/converted days has been fixed.
  • The '-' button now functions properly when creating your schedule.

New in Planbook 2.0.4 (Jul 28, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Show rotating days using "Day 1" rather than "A Day" by flipping a preference.
  • Lessons may now be cleared using the "clear lesson" menu item or keyboard shortcut.
  • You now have the option to show the # of the day in the school year using a preference.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Extending holidays now works on PowerPC computers.
  • Times now display properly in reports on PowerPC computers.
  • Report options now function properly on PowerPC computers.
  • Bumping and pulling back lessons no longer alters lesson times.
  • You can now force all lessons with information to be synced to iCal using the "Sync All Lessons to iCal menu Item".
  • Times don't show in reports if you're not showing them in the main views.
  • Formatting improvements with regards to dates in the published output.
  • Standards now order properly (alphanumerically).
  • Holiday names now display and print in the weekly report.
  • The weekly report no longer cuts off lesson information.
  • Other bug fixes.

New in Planbook 2.0.3 (Jul 22, 2009)

  • Double clicking to open file attachments works
  • You can now change course colors for schedules with more than 10 courses without hiding the "close" button
  • You can now delete attachments from the inspector or from the full screen planning mode
  • Planbook no longer skips around to random weeks when using the arrows to navigate in week mode when a full week of non-school days is visible
  • Courses can now be added consistently on PowerPC based Mac Computers
  • Other fixes.

New in Planbook 1.5.1 (Mar 20, 2009)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a problem creating a new file after closing an existing one.
  • Fixes a problem that occasionally caused a crash when creating a file.

New in Planbook 1.5.0 (Mar 16, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Your school year can now be extended by a week. Use this repeatedly to increase the year by multiple weeks.
  • You can now add a previously entered lesson to the repository by right clicking.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • A daylight savings issue related to iCal sync has been resolved.
  • Problems with the copy and paste lesson feature have been resolved.

New in Planbook 1.4.7 (Mar 6, 2009)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • The Backup to Hellmansoft feature should now work properly on Tiger based computers without requiring the new Safari 4 Beta.
  • Problems with publishing single lessons and full days of lessons have been resolved.
  • Problems with the storage of lesson information from the editing view have been resolved.
  • Responsiveness while typing has been improved.

New in Planbook 1.4.6 (Feb 28, 2009)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a bug that could cause data loss when switching between Planbook versions.
  • Updates the Planbook autoupdater to a new, more stable version of Sparkle.
  • Fixes a bug that prevented publishing single lessons.
  • New Features:
  • Planbook now features the ability to back up to a server on the 'net.
  • The file menu now includes a "Backup to Hellmansoft" menu item.
  • Using this feature causes your Planbook file to be sent to a secure, redundant server managed by Google.
  • You may save up to ten versions of your file(s).
  • After ten copies of your file have been stored, the web application will automatically remove the oldest backup.
  • You will need a Google account (gmail, or other) to store or retrieve your files.
  • Files can easily be retrieved from http://hellmansoftbackup.appspot.com/ Planbook does not store or save your google account information.

New in Planbook 1.4.4 (Feb 6, 2009)

  • Fixes a problem where lesson information was not always saved properly when entered in the editing mode.
  • iCal sync is now far more functional, reliable and speedy. It is highly recommended that you delete all Planbook created calendars from iCal prior to syncing again to avoid erratic behavior. iCal sync only functions on OS X Leopard.
  • Changing which courses are displayed no longer switches Planbook to Month View
  • Planbook no longer bumps lessons when canceling a day with no lesson information entered.
  • Fixes a problem displaying and printing Daily Lesson Reports with headers that popped up in 1.4.3
  • Fixes a problem with text snippets (using and adding) that popped up in 1.4.3
  • Speeds up the file menu which should improve snappiness of the menu system.
  • Fixes a problem with lesson entry in the editing mode.

New in Planbook 1.4.3 (Feb 6, 2009)

  • Fixes problems with the iCal sync features of Planbook and also fixes a couple of bugs.
  • This release also fixes problems with the Daily Lesson Report, Text Snippets and slow file menu behavior.

New in Planbook 1.4.2 (Jan 29, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Month View - View five weeks of your planbook in an overview manner. Click on lessons in this view to edit.
  • Some features, such as copy and paste are not yet working in the month view, but they are coming.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • A bug that caused lockups in the weekly print report and rare erroneous published output has been fixed.
  • Planbook now prohibits the addition of courses to days containing 12 lessons.
  • Planbook no longer sorts lessons on special days.

New in Planbook 1.4.1 (Jan 14, 2009)

  • Fixes two bugs introduced in version 1.4 that deal with holidays and the year view. Holidays will now function properly for all users, as will the year view feature.

New in Planbook 1.4.0 (Jan 12, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Special 'Planning Mode' can be invoked by double clicking a lesson. This brings up a full screen editing window.
  • Convert any day into another day in your rotation, or into a "special day". Right click on a lesson to convert that day.
  • New FTP backend to support additional FTP servers. You will not notice differences to Planbook, but the backend is significantly changed.
  • Formatting now transfers into the weekly print report.
  • Planbook can automatically grab the name of web sites that you link to your plans.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Planbook uses space much more wisely when displaying lesson information. Planbook will use as much space as is necessary to display a block of text.
  • Planbook remembers the last location from which files were attached.
  • Planbook won't let you add more than 20 total classes.
  • Many other small bugs were patched.

New in Planbook 1.3.4 Build 134000 (Oct 1, 2008)

  • You can now print weekly reports for a single class or all your classes by right clicking (ctrl-clicking) on the course name found on the left side of the main view.
  • You may now sync the current week of lessons to iCal rather than just your entire planbook.
  • Planbook now shows holidays appropriately in the weekly report.
  • A bug that caused problems when multiple web links were attached to a single lesson.

New in Planbook 1.3.3 Build 133000 (Sep 15, 2008)

  • Planbook now shows you exactly where your lessons will publish when using MobileMe based on your path and username. It will inform you when a path is invalid.
  • You may now publish to the default "Sites" folder on your iDisk or to the "Web/Sites" folder if you would like. This will help users stay consistent with their webpages and also allows publishing for users who need to use the web.me.com address.
  • Your users are now redirected to the current month (if possible) when visiting your published plans. Please note that you must republish for users to be redirected to the next month after a new month starts (for example, Sept 30th-->Oct. 1).
  • You can now change the font size in the Weekly Print Report.
  • Using the preferences, you can now choose to have the course name displayed at the top of every lesson that has information. Previously, the course name could only be seen when no information had been entered.
  • Publishing issues with MobileMe (especially when dealing with single lesson publishing, or publishing an entire day) have been resolved.
  • When dragging an attachment onto a lesson, the file name no longer displays rather than spaces.
  • Attachments now sort alphabetically in the drawer.
  • Scroll arrows now function in the daily lesson report.

New in Planbook 1.3.2 Build 132000 (Sep 4, 2008)

  • A bug that could cause crashes when FTPing files on PowerPC Macs has been fixed.
  • A bug that caused interesting behavior when a file contained the maximum 20 courses is fixed.
  • When you create a holiday on a day that precedes a cancelled day, the cancelled day will now shift forward. This is necessary behavior that ensures the consistency of rotating schedules is maintained should you need to uncancel the day. Otherwise, you could wind up with rotating schedules that do not rotate as expected.

New in Planbook 1.3.1 Build 131000 (Sep 2, 2008)

  • You can now sort your courses by time. This is accomplished using the View-->Arrange lessons by time menu item or the button in the planbook options that accomplishes the same thing. All courses must have times if you are going to sort by time.
  • Course times now show in the weekly and daily reports if you have entered them. You do not need to have times for all courses for the times to show- they will show for only the lessons with times.
  • The daily lesson report now prints the daily notes that you've entered.
  • You can now use a lesson as a template for other lessons in the same course. Right click on a lesson and choose 'Use Lesson as Template...'. You will be able to choose a date range to which the template should be applied. You will also be able to choose the type of day (or day of week) to apply the template. For example, you could apply the template only to Music classes on Mondays from 11/01 --> 12/04
  • You can now drag file and web attachments directly onto a lesson. Simply drag a file from the Finder directly onto the lesson in the main grid.
  • Planbook must create 'spacer' days to ensure that your file starts on the day that you chose. For example, if you teach monday-->friday but start your file on a Tuesday, the first Monday of the year will be cancelled. This ensures that rotating schedules will start on the appropriate day. Previous versions of Planbook allowed these spacer days to be uncanceled or turned into a holiday. This should not have been allowed. This version of Planbook will not allow these spacer days to be altered. Users with non-rotating schedules will not be affected by this as there's no need for spacer days.
  • Holidays no longer show as 'A Day' in rotating schedules.

New in Planbook 1.3.0 Build 130000 (Aug 26, 2008)

  • When deleting courses in a particular, yet uncommon, order it was possible for lessons to become linked to the incorrect course. This resulted in future bumping and yanking operations to cause lessons in one course to jump into other courses. This bug has been fixed.
  • I have also made it so files affected by this bug will be fixed when opened with Planbook 1.3. If your file was affected, you will see a prompt when opening your file asking if you would like to fix the problem or quit to make a back up. If you do not see this prompt your file was unaffected by this bug.

New in Planbook 1.2.8 Build 128000 (Aug 25, 2008)

  • Fixes a bug when removing holidays in certain types of rotating schedules
  • Makes the weekly print report smarter about using space efficiently and adds a slider to control the space between lessons in the report.

New in Planbook 1.2.7 Build 127000 (Aug 21, 2008)

  • Fixes isolated problems when uncanceleing certain days using either the right click or Planbook Options menu item methods.
  • Fixes a problem that, in rare instances, caused files to be published to the wrong location.
  • Adds additional logic to the Create Planbook window to ensure that users don't enter too many classes or choose the wrong dates for their Planbook files.
  • Fixes a problem displaying data in the weekly report with holidays and cancelled days.

New in Planbook 1.2.6 Build 126000 (Aug 14, 2008)

  • The typical Mac keyboard shortcuts for text formatting are now implemented.
  • References to .Mac have been updated to MobileMe
  • Unregistered users will now see buttons allowing them to activate a serial number or purchase a serial number when opening Planbook.

New in Planbook 1.2.5 Build 125000 (Aug 7, 2008)

  • Fixes a bug that prevented certain courses from being deleted from days in your Planbook.

New in Planbook 1.2.4 Build 124000 (Aug 5, 2008)

  • Fixes a bug that caused problems on systems utilizing OS X Leopard and PowerPC chips.
  • It also fixes Planbook so that it obeys your settings related to which aspects of your planbook to sync to iCal.
  • Continue reading for the list of fixes and new features since Planbook 1.2

New in Planbook 1.2 (Jul 10, 2008)

  • Users with weekly rotating lesson plans are no longer able to mess up their schedule rotation by creating holidays. Holidays shift the rotation schedule and this is not desired behavior for teachers with weekly rotating schedules. You are still able to designate non-school days by simply canceling the school day. This gives you the option to bump the days' lessons to the next occurrence of the course, but does not alter the rotation.
  • A bug that caused issues when wednesday had 12 lessons is fixed.
  • Planbook now is more thoughtful when providing feedback about the number of courses in a created planbook. Planbook won't let you create files with more than 12 lessons in a given day.
  • Creating a holiday always bumps the scheduled courses for that day to the next day. If you do not want to shift your schedule, choose cancel lessons rather than create holiday.
  • You can add times to your courses (Planbook-->Planbook Options menu item). Each course may meet at a different time on each type of school day. You can choose to show the times that courses meet in the main lesson view.
  • Lessons, holidays/cancelled days and daily notes may now be synced to iCal for viewing on your phone, for example. Lessons will be placed into calendars with the name of your course and will utilize the times that you entered for your schedule. You can choose which fields to sync (Planbook-->Planbook Options menu item). The sync is one-directional- from Planbook to iCal and not vice-versa.
  • Users can create cancelled school days using the Options-->Planbook Options menu item. These can be created singly or in bunches.

New in Planbook 1.1.6 (Jun 17, 2008)

  • Fixes a bug that caused crashes when selecting a date beyond the end date of your planbook
  • Resets dates to those more appropriate for the 08-09 school year when building your planbook

New in Planbook 1.1.4 (May 6, 2008)

  • Display issues (that could cause issues with opening files) associated with the custom fields have been fixed.
  • The daily lesson plan report now appropriately removes/displays classes that you select.
  • The weekly lesson plan won�t crash when printing if one day of lessons must takes more pages than the other days can be extended.

New in Planbook 1.1.3 (Apr 30, 2008)

  • Planbook now includes a full, searchable help system. Please check out this new feature to learn about what's new in Planbook 1.1.
  • Support for rotating schedules (A/B block, user defined rotations) and different courses each day.
  • Support for up to 20 total classes, 12 on a single day.
  • Support for saturday and sunday classes (new files only)
  • 3 custom text fields for entering user-specific information such as objectives, standards, lab supplies, etc...
  • Modified Weekly Print report to include user-chosen classes.
  • Import and Export lessons. Eases migration to a new planbook file
  • Autosave and Auto-Backup (available through the preferences menu).
  • Text Snippets- define shortcuts for commonly used phrases.

New in Planbook 1.1.1 (Apr 21, 2008)

  • Planbook no longer loses data when you save with a custom text field title erased.
  • The weekly print report uses equal width columns for each day
  • The lesson plan report no longer corrupts when using a header
  • The lesson plan report uses your titles for the custom fields.

New in Planbook 1.1.0.0 (Apr 9, 2008)

  • Planbook now includes a full, searchable help system. Please check out this new feature to learn about what's new in Planbook 1.1.
  • Support for rotating schedules (A/B block, user defined rotations) and different courses each day.
  • Support for up to 20 total classes, 12 on a single day.
  • Support for saturday and sunday classes (new files only)
  • 3 custom text fields for entering user-specific information such as objectives, standards, lab supplies, etc...
  • Modified Weekly Print report to include user-chosen classes.
  • Import and Export lessons. Eases migration to a new planbook file
  • Autosave and Auto-Backup (available through the preferences menu).
  • Text Snippets- define shortcuts for commonly used phrases.

New in Planbook 1.0.9.2 (Feb 11, 2008)

  • Addresses an activation issue plaguing certain users.

New in Planbook 1.0.8 (Oct 4, 2007)

  • Planbook no longer hangs when deleting courses
  • Planbook now uploads themes correctly when publishing to .Mac
  • Planbook no longer shows users the week prior to the actual starting week when creating a new Planbook file.

New in Planbook 1.0.7 (Sep 13, 2007)

  • Another Bug fixed that caused sporadic crashes when entering lesson data and changing weeks
  • Published main index now displays properly when viewed in Internet Explorer
  • FTP connection is now more robust- connections to a greater variety of FTP servers (specifically Comcast and Verizon) are possible