A New Kindle Utility: Calendar for Kindle

willd on Dec 26th 2008

The popularity of Notepad for Kindle got me thinking about another utility that I’d like on my Kindle, a calendar utility.

With Notepad getting decent reviews, I thought, why not?. Mary Krieg wrote a comment, saying “I now have the Personal Notepad on my Kindle. It is fantastic! You truly designed a program that is both simple to use and yet so practical. Thank you!” And then Steve Shaw, who runs the Kindlelicious blog, wrote: “What a great idea! Thanks for posting this.” Kinda heady praise for a piker like me.

Len Edgerly called Notepad “the first Kindle Utility” in the “Tech Tip” portion of his weekly podcast at The Kindle Chronicles. Hmm, I thought, pretty cool.

A little further thought and Calendar for Kindle was born. This one took a little longer to create–multiple pages with a Table of Contents, a list of major dates for the year, and a “personal calendar” page, based on the format I created with Notepad–so I put Calendar up for sale at Amazon for $1.99 (my take: seventy cents per). Then I also realized that a user could keep their personal dates from year to year by saving the .mbp file locally before installing the new calendar for the following year. Cool beans.

So I offer it to friends at EduKindle for free on the Downloads page. Please leave a comment if you have an idea to add or a feature to request. Enjoy!

Filed in Kindle Content,Kindle Productivity | 2 responses so far

2 Responses to “A New Kindle Utility: Calendar for Kindle”

  1. Len Edgerly Dec 26th 2008 at 11:56 am 1

    Actually, I called Notebook “the first Kindle app” that I’ve seen, but you’ve got the general idea. I was impressed with your creativity on behalf of the Kindle and am glad to see you’ve got another creation to share with the community!

  2. Bill Feingold Mar 13th 2009 at 05:49 pm 2

    Can anyone tell me how to create an active table of contents for a book I am making?

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