Jorte
by Toni McQuilken
May 4, 2011 1:00 PM –
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Jorte is a personal organizer application designed to be practical. This application Jorte is a personal organizer. Our objective was to create an app with the look and feel of real paper personal organizer with an appealing appearance and easy practical use. Jorte has a scheduler function and you can customize its style as you choose. Calendars are displayed in a monthly or weekly view the display will rotate automatically if you turn your device sideways.
Price: Free
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- You can choose to sync with Google Calendars or create a Jorte-specific calendar
- A lot of customization options
- LOTS of widget sizes
Cons
- Having trouble adjusting the widget settings once it’s been placed
Features:
As a replacement for the stock calendar, Jorte is a very solid choice. If you’re looking for something you can customize exactly to the way you work, this is probably the app for you. There are a wide variety of views, from the basic monthly overview to several different weekly views, as well as an agenda view. It also has a range of skins, so if you want to set the look and feel of your calendar to match the rest of your phone, it’s an easy process.
You can choose to tie in your Google calendars, or you can have a separate Jorte calendar that isn’t synced with any servers – you can choose which in the setup, and can always change it in the settings.
Speaking of settings, Jorte really excels here as well. There are a wide range of options from which day the calendar starts to importing or exporting data, all available in easy-to-navigate menus. If you don’t need these options, the app itself does a good job of keeping them tucked away where they won’t clutter up your day to day usage.
If you prefer to access your calendar via widget, Jorte comes with pretty much every size option you could ever want (you can choose to hide the ones you don’t use in the settings of the app itself). You have the same style options for the widget as for the app, along with the ability to customize how transparent it is and font size, among other things. You can also choose which type of widget you want, from monthly to agenda.
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Jorte Month Full
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Jorte Month Small
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Jorte Widget
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Jorte Week
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Jorte Week 2
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Jorte Week 3
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Jorte Week 4
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Jorte Styles
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Jorte Settings
Usefulness:
Very. This is a pretty powerful calendar replacement app, with the ability to customize it until you get exactly the look and feel, as well as workflow that works for you.
Ease of Use:
It’s very easy to use! Setup is quick, and from there, you can use it or you can start poking around the settings until you get it set the way you like it.
Frequently Used:
If you’re a calendar junkie, this is an app you’ll use throughout the day every day.
Interface:
I like that you can change it up. If you’re going to spend a lot of time looking at the calendar, the ability to change the color schemes and layout is a nice touch. And as someone who is very specific about how my calendar looks since I run my whole life around it… it was nice to have a lot of options to get it exactly right.