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Pocket Informant Review.

Product: Pocket Informant
Version: 2.5.1

Developer: Web Information Solutions (http://www.pocketinformant.com/)

 By:       Jerry Goldbaum

Corporate Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Pocket Informant (PI) is the quintessential PIM application for the Pocket PC.  Pocket Informant replaces your built in Contacts/ Calendar/ Tasks applications with more powerful full featured versions in one integrated application.  Those of you that are familiar with the Palm OS DateBk4 or ActionNames programs will find PI very similar in functionality and flexibility. 

  • Main Features
    • Full featured appointment management with three different view - Week, Month, and Agenda
    • Full featured Tasks management within the appointment views and its own tab
    • Light Contact Management with a journal, create appointment and tasks from contacts, send email directly from your contacts
    • Dial a contact's phone number through the speakers
    • Take notes in your own handwriting or the Rich Text editor and then setup an alarm for the note to appear at any time.
    • Link documents to contacts, appointments, or tasks. Or link tasks to contacts - any combination you want!
    • Create appointments or tasks from custom templates - making it fast and easy to quickly setup a meeting.

     

    All packaged in an easy to use application for your PocketPC

    • Easy to filter quickly on one or multiple criteria
    • Directly modify tasks via tap/hold on priority, start or due dates
    • Drag and drop appointments or tasks to new days in the Week View or Month View
    • See more relevant information about your appointments or tasks
    • Format contacts in one of four different ways
    • Dial contact phone numbers
    • Quickly view contact details with fewer taps
    • Create/Edit Appointment/task notes with bullets, fonts, styles, ink, graphics, and more
    • Create Appointments from tasks or contacts
    • Create Tasks from appointments or contacts
    • Easier to get to your information
    • Tasks can be prioritized by the standard High/Low and also by A-Z and 123 priority levels
    • More configurable

      Plus, Pocket Informant is fully customizable to your tastes with all colors and options configurable; and through the use of Pocket Outlook compatible plugins.

I have been using Pocket Informant for a couple of months now and I can’t imagine my PPC without it!  The stock MS PIM components are lacking in so many areas that they are almost to the point of unusable for those who have need for a complete PIM system.  Aside from the broad flexibility of this program, I really like the fact that the author of PI, Alex Kac is constantly trying to improve the program (he’s already working on version 3!).  He really values the opinions of users and in fact has posted an open forum on the PocketInformant web site for version 3.0 enhancement suggestions.

 
 
 

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