The powerfully simple Personal Information Manager
Managing personal information can be tricky if you need a different program to handle contacts, tasks, calendar email and your schedule. EssentialPIM Free can make the job much easier, however.
EssentialPIM Free can securely schedule your day, manage your contacts, keep track of your To Do plans and organize your notes. EssentialPIM's interface is very similar to Outlook, and is clean and well organized. You can use the left sidebar to change between the program's utilities, and all the details are displayed on the right hand side.
The tools included in EssentialPIM Free are easy to use, and have pretty much everything you need to organize your daily work. Schedule displays a calendar with different background colors and symbols that indicate frequency and degree of completion; Notes lets you add notes with pictures, rich-format text, tables and symbols; and with Contacts you can easily keep a list of all your friends and colleagues, with highly customizable information fields.
EssentialPIM Free does feature a large variety of options, but it's only when you take a deeper look that you realize that many of them are only available in the Pro version – which is kind of disappointing.
EssentialPIM Free is a useful application. Sadly only the Pro version has all the great scheduling options.
User reviews about EssentialPIM
by Anonymous
almost a CRM.
I've looked at over 30 different CRM programs in the last year, from free to the expensive (Infusion and SalesForce). PIM, which was never meant to be used for marketing has, by far, the easiest UI out there. If only they would consider adding some marketing facets like campaigns, and more elaborate search techniques, this little program would knock ALL the CRMs out there out of the market.
It is extremely intuitive to set up and use. The few times I've had questions, they were answered by email within 24 hours. The cost is minimal - especially when you factor in the "lost opportunity" costs that usually come with all the other CRMs out there.
For those people who insist on having a web-hosted program - all you have to do is back up your EPim files to DropBox or Windows Live. duh.
Pros:
Extremely user-friendly User Interface
Very easy to set up
Very easy to use
Excellent email integration
Great Service
Cons:
No process for marketing campaigns
Search has been dumbed down too much. More