WinPIM 8.22 Personal Edition
Although this PIM looks and feels like a stripped-down Outlook, it’s attractive. But you get no password manager, conduits for syncing PDAs cost extra, and you really pay to share info. Small but colorful and easily identified buttons on a bar give access to core functions : Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Diary, and Notes. Pin the buttons to the screen and they become tabs with cool flyout panes (but I like the default layout better).
Contacts and Calendar offer the usual capabilities (you can attach files to contacts, link contacts to calendar and task entries, and so on) and views. The versatile Notes area lets you enter your thoughts into a Rich Text editor, create floating “sticky†notes, and even access Web pages. But the “browser†lacks navigation controls and won’t update the page on subsequent viewings.
The Notes RTF editing tools appear in the otherwise unremarkable Diary, which I’d gladly trade for a password manager. And the editing capability doesn’t appear in the Notes fields for contact and calendar entries, whereas competitors do provide the feature in those areas.
Palm, Pocket PC, and Outlook sync conduits cost $24.95, $29.95, and $19.95, respectively. And to share info locally or over the Internet, you need WinPIM Data Server, a whopping $249.
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