Hi Darrin Monday, October 13, 2003, 9:43:04 PM, you wrote:
D> I just downloaded winpim demo. Im very impressed. It seem really great! Ill D> probably end up buying it. Any special features that you recommend that are D> in it? Well well :) Yep it is great..very clean and pretty much everything I could want. And I evaluated MANY in my search for an Outlook replacement. I needed a PIM with a great interface that could show 1/7/30-day views, have a todo list apart from daily appointments, and be able to take notes of unlimited size(no 50k limit or something similar). Also a contact book with customizable fields (I keep logs of phone conversations). This is it. Another is Redbox organizer but that's twice the size (also has more features, I'll admit). I didn't want a wimpy program though - it needed to be powerful, and this meets my requirements very well. A third program which was almost identical in functionality and interface to WinPIM was Franklin Covey Planning software. The killer? It was 29 MB. This is 3. Go figure. That one had some philosophical elements too that I didn't have time to evaluate. I love the notes feature. No more sticky pads for me. Phone conversation - number to note down? Takes a second. Random restaurant's name/interesting article/shopping list/sample cover letters/whatever? Notes again. The search facility means I can just dump any info into a note and search for it when the time comes. Organization doesn't matter. It's essential for me now and I really recommend you explore both the plain text and rich text notes. I use the latter mostly as it offers window sizes larger than the little plain text ones which are meant to replace paper post-its. I find those irritating when I'm storing information for the long term. So far there's no way to set customize a default size for all plain text notes. One caveat - the reminder window that pops up has skins that suck. Modifying the INI files can fix this, as even the other skins available on the website are no better. The modifications are trivial though. Cheers, -- Vishal ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00.6 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
