Spb Diary acts as a powerful Today plug-in for several PIM applications. Calendar is one of them. On this screenshot you can see the general look of the Calendar tab of Spb Diary. The Calendar tab may show your appointments, tasks, messages, birthdays, anniversaries, financial data, grouped by days and filtered, if necessary.

A lot of different icons may accompany your entries. These icons are either informative or provide fast access to some extra information. For example, tapping on opens the appointment or task notes in a separate window. Tapping on opens a window, where you can quickly customize the reminder options. You can specify, which icons should be shown, in program options.

Almost all actions can be performed right from the Today plug-in. For example, double-tap on any list item opens it for editing in the specified PIM application (this is the default behavior, it can also be changed in options).

The Tasks tab of Spb Diary Today plug-in represents your tasks. There are several ways to group and sort these items. You can group tasks by category, completion state, due date, priority, sensitivity, start date or not group them at all. Every grouping style implies several sorting modes that can be applied to your tasks. You can also specify and apply a category filter for your tasks. All words said above about icons in the Calendar tab can be referred to tasks, too.

The third tab of Spb Diary Today plug-in is the Contacts tab. All your contacts are represented here. If you wish you can display your contacts as small photos, shown at the very top of the list. Similarly to appointments and tasks you can apply filters and select different grouping modes, like "By Company", "By Category", or no grouping. You can also activate sorting by the first or the last name of people in your contact list.

You can select, what partucular contact to show for every person in your list. This can be either one of his/her phone numbers (mobile, office, home, etc) or an email address.

If you tap on a contact you will see a convenient pop-up menu, from which you will be able to dial person's phono number, send him a mesasge, etc.

The search panel will make finding a desired person in the list very simple and fast.

The fourth tab of Spb Diary is Notes. All your notes are represented here. Starting from version 2.0 Spb Diary supports showing text and Pocket Word files and PhatNotes notes within the Notes tab with ability to preview them. Your notes can be grouped by date and time of creation or folder and sorted by name, date and time of creation and size.

Messages is the fifth tab of Spb Diary application. The Messages tab shows all your e-mail, SMS and MMS messages, grouped and filtered, if necessary.

The message preview is very handy. By tapping on a message you can quickly preview it with ability to reply, forward, delete or open a message for editing.

Special Events is the sixth tab of Spb Diary application. Special Events tab is the best way to quickly overview all birthdays and anniversaries of people from your contacts and/or your scheduled money transactions for a long period of time.

Contact entries within the Special Events tab can be treated as normal contacts, with ability to see their profiles, dial their phone numbers, send messages, etc. Scheduled transactions from the Special Events tab can be treated quite as in the Calendar tab.

For your convenience events are grouped by months and by weeks for the current month (or, you can select to see all items without grouping from the menu).

You can configure Spb Diary to cut the long titles of appointments and tasks and show them in full only when selected.

If you tap on twice you will be shown Spb Diary calendar. There are three main functions of this calendar:

1. If at least one appointment is specified for a certain day, it is represented with a tiny time span icon (), thus you can see all your appointments for one month at once.
2. You can quickly load the appointments and task of one or more days into the Calendar tab
3. You can quickly create an appointments or a task by tapping on a day and selecting the desired action from the pop-up menu.

Time span - is a very simple and effective feature. In the Calendar tab you can see the time span icon next to every day in the list (unless you disabled it in Options). Just tap on this icon () and you will see a larger analog (as on this screenshot). Now, tap your stylus and drag it along this time rule. When finished, you will be proposed to create an appointment with the start and finish times corresponding to the captured section.

If more than one appointment exists for a certain day, the time span icon will show them all.

As long as different appointments may have different status, they are represented with different colors on the time span.

Showing the time span icon can be disabled or enabled from Options.

All most frequently used actions with appointments, tasks, contacts, notes and messages can be performed right from Spb Diary Today plug-in. As almost all Spb Diary users say, one can literally never face a situation when it is necessary to open the PIM application.

Such operations as opening an item for viewing or editing, rescheduling, configuring the reminder, adding, deleting, beaming an item, or sending it via Bluetooth, and much more, can be performed from the corresponding context menus.

Spb Diary allows to create and apply different filters that enable or disable showing different items. The screenshot shows how to filter the task list to display only tasks of Personal category.

Filters can be rather complex. For example a filter "Personal+Bike" lets through only items that belong to Personal and Bike categories; and a filter "-Business" lets through all items but of the Business category.

Spb Diary has a highly customizable interface. All customization is done via program Options. The options are divided into several groups: General, Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, Messages, Special Events and Category Icons.

You will find it very practical that when customizing one option or another you will constantly be able to see what effect the changed options took. The changeable sample interface is shown in options dialogs, which provides a kind of WYSIWYG editing.

You can assign an individual icon for any category you have. This icon will accompany (optional) all items within this category.

The new feature of Spb Diary is ability to color items assigned to different categories with different colors.

Each tabs of Spb Diary can have a header allowing user to access some frequent actions such as changing current filtering mode. There are three different modes for headers:

Header always shown. In this mode you have the header always visible. This mode is designed for those who frequently use different filters, grouping and sorting modes.

Header always hidden. When you do not need frequent access to filtering, grouping and sorting modes you can hide the header in order to have more vertical space available for displaying your data. In this case all the header functionality becomes available via the context menu.

Header handled manually. This is probably the compromise. You can show or minimize the header manually. To hide the header, tap on . To show it, tap on the thin horizontal line shown instead of the header

It's up to you to select which contact will be shown for every single person in your contact list. Just tap on an icon that symbolizes some type of phone number or an email address and you will see the list of all contacts available for that person. Select the one you want to see in the contact list.

When you tap a contact in your contact list you will see a pop-up where you will find all possible actions that can be performed with this contact: dialing the mobile and home phone numbers, sendnig text or e-mail messages, deleting and editing this contact.

It's not necessary to open to the PIM application to get information on one event or another. For example, if you tap the Notes icon of a certain task, the notes will be shown in a small separate window without opening the PIM application.

When previewing a note or a text file or a Pocket Word file, you can copy texts to clipboard, which is very useful.

If you have Spb Weather installed on your Pocket PC with the Today plug-in activated, you will see a small weather icon near the day titles in the Calendar tab. Spb Diary takes the weather forecast information for each day from Spb Weather for the city currently active in that application. If you tap this icon in the Spb Diary Today plug-in you will see a pop-up window with the detailed weather information for that day taken from Spb Weather.

If you have Spb Finance installed on your Pocket PC, Spb Diary will help you track your scheduled transactions. You can configure Spb Diary to show your scheduled transactions within the Calendar and/or Special Events tabs.