For me refresh/sync is fast :-)
Just add a ToDo in Mail and 3 seconds later it appears in Blotter. The size of the view can be chosen, position also by moving it with the cursor in the preferences. In fact Blotter is everything I did before with Geektools and a lot of scripts but easier, most beautiful (more expensive) and it works fine :-)
I really like the "ToDo" display, its clear, not too big... I like everything in the design. In preferences we can chose which calendars we want to be displayed by Blotter.
Concerning the price Im also one who think that 10$ is expensive for what Blotter do. Ok, I like it a lot... but actually 10$ for that is expensive. It would be (in my opinion) more fair with a price between 99 cents and 5$. Thats why I put only 3 stars. Without the price question it would have 5 stars without hesitating.
Montrealex about Blotter, v1.1