Whether or not you have the budget to afford a luxurious new H/PC or Palm-sized PC, or if you're currently happy with whatever Windows CE device you have, the following product will bring new value to your device, no matter how old, as long as it meets the minimum requirements.

Developer One's ClassPro
ClassPro is a convenient tool designed to track the progress of assignments in classes and your class schedules, as well as organize all of your classroom notes for you. Developer One created this program with an idea in mind called The Two-Tap ClassPro Concept. As you can see in Figure A, the interface behind this product is primarily tabular.

FIGURE A

Developer One's design concepts are usually quite original and efficient. Click picture for a larger image.

The idea behind this is that all of your classes are given individual tabs along the top of the program, while such things as the class information, notes, and tasks are located along the side. With one tap, you'll get to your physics class tab, while another brings you to the notes you've put together for physics.

Class information consists of all sorts of data, such as teacher, room number, and telephone number. In Figure B, provisions are provided to allow for separate data for a lecture and lab version of any class you have.

FIGURE B

I've never had a class with information that occupies all of these fields. Click picture for a larger image.

It's also easy to configure your schedule for that particular class with simple numeric text boxes for entering the time range and checking off some boxes to set the days that you attend that class each week.

Notes are really just organized links to external files that are the actual notes. These notes can either be Pocket Word or Pocket Excel files. You can classify a note by type and use pre-built templates that suit each Pocket Office application to make it easier to enter data while taking the notes, which make for great time-savers. The files you create for each note are stored by default in your My Documents folder.

Tasks are also a major component behind ClassPro. You enter the name of the assignment and other information, such as due date, progress (shown on a horizontal bar graph), priority on a scale from a one to ten, the letter grade received, and the percentage of your final grade. Figure C showcases the sample task that's included with ClassPro.