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  1. Hi Everyone, OLLY developer here. We released a new update a couple of days ago that should solve the assignment calendar performance issues that people have been having. It is not out yet on the Mac App Store (hopefully in a few weeks) but if you purchased from our store you can go up to Help->Check for Updates to check it out. I hope you all like it!
  2. Singingmom: OLLY is a homeschool planner for Mac. If you are interested our website is at http://www.ollyhomeschool.com
  3. Hi everyone, just letting you all know that the OLLY team is going to be there this weekend. Feel free to stop by the booth if you want to find out more or just want to say hi. :)
  4. (OLLY developer here) sflood: Yes it is possible to use OLLY with multiple kids. But, although it isn't possible to drag assignments from one kid to another, instead you just create courses and lesson plans (the lesson plans contain assignments), and then combine those courses and lesson plans together however you want each year to create learning plans for each kid. The lesson plans are essentially reusable templates that make it easy to create, edit, and assign assignments. I hope that answered your question. :)
  5. ElizabethB: Yep, the assignment generator in OLLY makes it easy to create these types of assignments. If you choose the assignment type "Chapter Subsection", once you have entered some initial information, a page appears to enter in the number of subsections for each chapter, along with an optional topic to apply to all of those subsections. Hit finish and it creates all of the chapter subsections. The final assignments are created in the format "Chapter 3 - 4 Singapore Math Exercise" indicating the 4th exercise in chapter 3 of Singapore math.
  6. shukriyya: Both. The Mac site is talking about the version available on the Mac App Store, and the Mac App Store can't be installed on 10.5. Anyone still on 10.5 though can buy the version from our site and it will work fine.
  7. Hi everyone, Thanks again for all of the great feedback! I am pleased to announce that OLLY has just been accepted into the Mac App Store!! If you are on Snow Leopard and up and would like to buy it from the MAS you can find OLLY at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/olly/id519279964?ls=1&mt=12
  8. The plan is to have the iPad version be standalone, and the iPhone version to require either a Mac or an iPad version to sync to. The idea is that an iPhone will be too small of a screen to have all of the functionality of the full version, so we will be creating it as basically an accessory to the larger versions.
  9. I don't think that it is possible for non-Apple apps to iPad sync via a cable due to security lockdowns that Apple has put in place. But, most Macs from the last five years or so come with bluetooth support, so I will try to build in support for bluetooth syncing. In your top bar there should be a squiggly sort of icon, click it and there should be some bluetooth options, if so than your Mac has bluetooth! More info about bluetooth can be found at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3887
  10. Wow, I really appreciate the great response everyone! @OhElizabeth Well for now it is going on the Mac App Store, which means that although Apple will be distributing it, it won't yet be available for mobile devices. But, over the next weeks/months I am going to try and figure out a solution for wifi syncing. Once that is figured out, I am going to create a version of OLLY for iPhone and a version for iPad. I don't want to set any firm dates on that though because syncing is rather difficult to design. :P
  11. @KristinaBreece Glad to hear you like it! @OhElizabeth Much appreciated :)
  12. Hi everyone, As you may know, for the last few months we have been working on OLLY, the first ever homeschool planning software for Mac. I am excited to announce that it is (finally) finished and available for purchase from our website! (Available from the Mac App Store soon) I hope you all enjoy. :)
  13. Hi everyone, I have some really big news about the last two months. As most of you may know the OLLY beta was first released about a month ago. During this last month we have been avoiding raising too much more hype so that we could keep up with the feedback and make sure everything was working fairly well. But now we finally have a system in place and we are ready to face the tide of incoming beta testers. If you go to our website at http://www.riversandyears.com/olly/ you can sign up for the newsletter and receive a download link to get started immediately. We also have a new forum for posting suggestions, problems, or other questions. This is a very exciting time for us and I am so grateful to everyone who has participated in this beta. Thank you.
  14. Hi Everyone, I apologize for the lack of updates, we are working hard to get OLLY ready – not just the application but the distribution, licensing, and support features. We are not ready to set any official dates for the final release but the beta should hopefully be ready in a couple weeks. We are still accepting people for the beta program, go onto our website and sign up for the newsletter to get access when the beta is released. We will be closing it after a certain number of people have registered so that we can handle all of the bug reports and feedback so be sure to sign up soon. We do now have a facebook page! You can get to it here. Thanks for all of the suggestions, Wizecoder
  15. Hi everyone, I would just like to announce that OLLY now has a website! The site is still not yet fully developed but if you want to check it out you can find it here. On the main page is a sign up form to sign up for email updates. We will probably be doing a closed beta and will most likely be sending copies to people who sign up or to people who have helped out with feedback on this post. BTW I am pleased to say that we have officially passed 100 people who have voted yes on the poll. Thank you all for the great support! :D
  16. Hi everyone, I would like to announce that I just created a Twitter profile for the Olly app! You can see it here, I hope to post at least once a day with random thoughts and updates. By the way, as you can see we decided on the name Olly for the application. There should be a website online in the next week or two to try and raise awareness and spread the word. :)
  17. @tracy.digigirl Thanks for all of the suggestions! It is nice to have all of the feedback. "print weekly assignment sheets" This is definitely in the works, I want to have a full reports/printouts section of the app for printing various day/week/month assignment sheets along with transcripts and other things. "import feature" This is an interesting concept. It might make it into a version at some point but probably not version 1.0, there are a lot of features to think about and it will be hard enough to figure out how best to enter in assignments in the application itself.:tongue_smilie: "login feature" This will be in the app, there was actually a post about it I think on page 2. The plan is to make the interface fairly simple for the students to be able to easily mark completion, attendance and a few other things without having access to all of the planning features. "device synching and offline access" I am still a bit hazy on how this will all work, I am planning on using the new iCloud service(possibly with dropbox for people with ios 4 or leopard/snow-leopard) but I am not in the developer program yet so I am not sure exactly how it will work. I am hoping that offline access will work though. "interact with iCal" Definitely a possibility although yet again this is a feature that might come in a slightly later version. "ongoing support and improvements" Of course! Once this app starts selling I am hoping I will be able to save enough to buy a macbook to be able to continue development at college. Thanks again for the support, it really helps motivate me seeing posts like this. As for release date I am still not sure about the final release date but I hope to be able to start a beta around the end of august.
  18. Thanks for the feedback. Please keep it coming, this is a very tough decision and I would appreciate as many outside opinions as possible. I know the name probably wouldn't make that big of a difference but it is just one of those things that feels like it needs to be just right. Knowing that whatever name we pick could be associated with the app for years to come makes it a tough decision.:001_unsure: I was definitely thinking of something like that but I am developing this to be a product of my mom's new company and we decided that it would be best to keep my own naming convention out of it, but thanks for the suggestion. :) Thanks again everyone I really appreciate all of the support.
  19. Hey everybody, just letting you know that I am still working hard on the application and I do hope to have a beta version ready by the end of august. Currently I am trying to decide on a name for the application, I have a few ideas already but I would like to get some outside opinions, suggestions and feedback. My current ideas are: Holly - The Homeschooler's Organized Life and Learning Yearbook. or Olly - The Organized Life and Learning Yearbook. So please let me know what you think of those options and if you have any other ideas feel free to comment. Thanks :)
  20. Thanks everybody for the great feedback! There will definitely be a iPhone/iPad version of the application and I am thinking hard about how to implement syncing. I hope to be able to release the application in some form or another by the end of summer but I won't be able to make any promises, the syncing is clearly a crucial feature but it is a complex feature that will take a while to figure out. An index of books and materials is planned but could you expand on what you want with locations? Thanks again everybody, it is really encouraging to get this great of a response and the feedback is helping alot in the decision making.
  21. Quick update: One of the features that I am considering for the app is a login system. It would allow the parent and each of the kids to have their own account in the app and have a different operating experience. (I don't think this feature would work well on an iphone or ipad version so this idea is primarily for the Mac) For e.g. the parent would have full access to all of the features of the app, they could access all of the data and could add/remove/edit whatever they want. The kids (different privileges depending on age) would have access to less of it, they would only see their own data, and they would only be able to do certain things to the data, like mark it complete. Pros: Allow the parent to set what data the kids have access to. Each user could make some visual changes to their own account and have their own preferences. Cons: One extra step that everyone needs to take before even getting into the application. Let me know what you think. :) Thanks
  22. A iPhone/iTouch/iPad app is definitely planned and it will have a higher priority now due to the clear support from everyone. Thanks for all of the great feedback everyone! Keep it coming. :) And if everyone could let me know what version of Mac you have that would be great. I still need to make the final decision of what versions it will support, currently the plan is to support Leopard and up but if there are a lot of people who have Tiger and plan to have it for a while I might rethink things a bit.
  23. Hi everyone, I am a homeschooled teen hoping to get some suggestions and feedback on a Mac application I am programming that is intended for homeschool planning and record keeping, as well as other features such as journaling, goal setting, chore tracking, etc... If you have any ideas or feature suggestions I would really appreciate it. My mom and I have a pretty good framework going but we would like some outside feedback and ideas on different features, learning styles, and any other comments you would like to throw in. If you have a favorite feature from some other homeschool planning software or any original ideas that you would love to see, please post them. Thanks, Aengus
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