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Rainlendar is a light calendar application but complete in term of functionalities. It’s integrated into your desktop, supports unicode and works on both Windows and Linux. The reason why I’m writing a review for this simple yet sophisticated application is because I feel it simply deserves it.

Installation
At just 2042KB, it can be downloaded within a minute, and the installation process would just take probably another minute. Nothing much to discuss about in this area.

Options/configurations
Usually, before starting with the core functions of the application, I would start it with the options/settings first. Flexibility is the thing I like about Rainlendar. There are a lot of stuffs that you can play around with.You can have the option to choose whether you want the week to start on Monday or Sunday (or whatever day you want), you can lock the panel in place, you can skin your Rainlendar, and there are plenty of advanced options for you to explore in case you’re a power user.

Core features
Compare to the previous versions, there are really A LOT of improvements in term of event handling and also the To-do list.For example, instead of just a simple To-do list, you can now set the due date, location and change the progress of the particular task, there’s a little icon beside the task to tell you about the category. On top of that, you can also categorize your To-do list by status, due date or task category.

To put it simple, I’m really impressed with the new functions that help forgetful ass like me to make my life more organized :)

Rainlendar Lite vs Rainlendar Pro?
If you want me to pick some bad points of Rainlendar, probably this is the only point I can think of (at least for now). Rainlendar used to be free. But now there are Rainlendar Lite (free) and Rainlendar Pro that offers two extra functions (Network Shared calendar and Outlook support) at EUR15.

However, I think it’s reasonable one, as most of the users don’t need the two functions, and in case they need it, it comes with a fee :)

Conclusion
As a conclusion, Rainlendar is a pretty decent and light application that’s going to make your life hell a lot more systematic. If you haven’t tried it, it’s definitely worth a try.