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I am happy to announce the release of Planbook 2.5 for Windows. You can grab it here. Please back up any data files before upgrading. Planbook 2.5 will open your old files, but files saved with 2.5 are unreadable in 1.3.

Besides a number of bug fixes, I have added lots of new features in Planbook 2.5

• Ability to add times to lessons.


• Ability to create custom days that don’t match the typical days in your schedule.


• Ability to create assignments with an assigned and due date rather than just free form homework


• Ability to sync your plans and attachments (for free) to PlanbookConnect for online access.


• Support for 15 classes per day, 25 classes total


• Ability to add and track standards. Standards can be entered manually or imported from a .csv file following these instructions.


• Ability to migrate your plans from one year to another


• Ability to change the names of the standard text fields


• Much More, including greatly improved performance with respect to saving files.

I have finally made a beta release of Planbook 2.5 available for download. You can access the Beta by downloading it here.  Planbook 2.5 will open files created by earlier versions of Planbook, but once saved in the new version they cannot be reopened in the old version.

The beta release includes a number of new features, including:

• Sync to PlanbookConnect and make plans available online for your use as well as others (free account required).
• Track standards using the full screen editing mode
• Assign times to your lessons
• Create custom days
• Greatly improved saving
• Tagging lessons
• Lots of bug fixes

There are still a couple of features left to implement in 2.5 (including a standards report, the ability to quickly change the times for the lessons on a single day and some beautification), but for the most part, the 2.5 release is ready to go.

That said, Planbook 2.5 for Windows is currently Beta.  Please backup all data files appropriately.

Please send any and all feedback directly to jeff@hellmansoft.com

While the recent posts have detailed the imminent release of Planbook 2.5 for Mac, I have steadily been making progress on the massive update to Planbook for Windows that will bring in all of the great new features in Planbook for Mac.

As proof, I include the screen shot seen to the right.  Please notice that assignments and tags are already functional.  Additionally, adding standards and applying them to lessons is functional.  I’m working hard to make PlanbookConnect.com syncing work.

While deadlines are hard to set in the software world, especially when trying to teach at the same time, I hope to release a beta version of 2.5 for Windows before spring break (March 20th).  Planbook 2.5 for Windows will be a free upgrade for current Planbook users.

As always, contact me with questions.