iSlayer’s new widget: Organized

So the oh-so-amazing widget maker “iSlayer” (makers of iStat Pro, etc) has released a new widget called “Organized” (leopard only),basically to sum it up really quick - it replaces the World Clock and iCal widgets in dashboard, combines them, and then adds 2 more features. The interface of the widget is that clean iSlayer UI that we all know and love (at least if you use iStat Pro you do). It’s a calendar with 4 tabs under it: Clocks, Notes, Events, To Do. So basically, its kinda like iCal at a glance! The clock tab is simply the world clock, and you can add more clocks onto it, you don’t have to open a whole new widget, just to have another clock.

World Clock and “Organized”

The notes tab is the notes feature you find in Mail, simply put into widget form. The only downside to this is that it doesn’t sync with mail; so you wont find your mail notes in this widget and vise versa. However, it does borrow from the iPhone interface a tad which is nice. Also, if you’re not a big fan of the Marker Felt font that is featured in notes you can turn that off in the widget’s prefs.

Notes in “Organized”

The Events tab does however sync with iCal, and shows the events that are today/upcoming if you’re on the today view or if you click on a date it’ll show you the events for that day. You can click on an event to see its details, however you can’t create new events in “Organized” (they do give you a button to launch iCal though).

“iCal” (widget) and “Organized”

Finally you have the To Do tab. It does exactly what you’d expect it to, however you can add new to do’s and a new calendar to ad the todo’s to. You can also complete and delete to do’s and view their details.

To Do in “Organized”

So basically its a great widget, and I’ll probably adapt to it really soon, however I just think its odd that you can create stuff in Notes, but not sync them with Mail. Then not create stuff in Events, even though that IS synced with iCal. Also you can create to do’s AND CALENDARS in this widget, which are also synced. (Not sure why you’d need to create a whole new calendar for your todo’s at random.) So basically they just need to do syncing and creating in all the sections and then it’ll be flawless. So I give it a 4.5 out of 5 (simply because it has a great interface and its easy to use, it just needs complete functionality). Its a great widget and you can download at www.islayer.com (once again, its leopard only folks)