Essential PIM

During May 2006 I purchased what I consider to be a great Personal Information Manager, version 1.x of Essential PIM. In my opinion, it beats Lotus Organizer that I used to use on a network at my working place, and it also beats jotting down a url reference and notes into a Word todo.doc file. After all - Word is for letters and documents.

Now they've released version 2, and seeing I'd purchased the Pro version I was given the key and reference to version 2.

To: "Trevor Frew" <tfrew@pcug.org.au>
Subject: Your EssentialPIM Pro 2.0 license
From: "EPIM Customer Service"
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:54:50 +0300

Dear Trevor,

During May 2006, you purchased a copy of EssentialPIM Pro Desktop edition. Today we are releasing a new version of EssentialPIM, 2.0 and you are entitled to a free key for this version.

There are two versions available: Pro and Free.  They are compared in the table at the bottom and at the link below:

http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=provsfree

Pro vs. Free Versions

Check the following comparison table to see the differences between the two versions of EssentialPIM. To learn more, click a feature title.

Features EssentialPIM Pro EssentialPIM Free

General
Versatile import/export capabilities Yes Yes
Secure advanced encryption Yes No
Multi-user access to database* Yes No
Outlook synchronization Yes No
Storing and/or linking attachments Yes No
Advanced backup Yes No
Sending any item to e-mail Yes No
Synchronization with PocketPC or Palm** Yes No

Scheduler
Color-coded, easy to read day/week/month schedules Yes Yes
Easy printout of days, weeks, or months; save as web page Yes Yes
Filter categories Yes No
Editable categories of tasks or events Yes No
Custom view Yes No

To Do List
Categories, priority, completion status, due date, and reminder fields Yes Yes
Tools that sort and categorize Yes Yes
Hierarchical To Do lists Yes No
Assignees Yes No

Outliner
Tree-like multilevel structure, unlimited number of folders and notes Yes Yes
Insert pictures, tables, any formatted text (fonts, subscripts/superscripts, colored text background, multilevel bullets and numbering, Unicode, background images) Yes Yes
Multiple tabs for note trees and single notes Yes No

Download EssentialPIM
Download Desktop Edition 1 Download Download
Download Portable Edition 1 Download Download

Buy EssentialPIM Pro
Desktop Edition $39.95 Buy now! N/A
Portable Edition $39.95 Buy now! N/A

   *Requires EssentialPIM Pro with Network license
   **Requires EssentialPIM Pro with PPC/Palm Sync license

The hierarchical todo lists beat the heck out of keeping a single unordered Word document.

Trevor F

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