PIM suggestions

JerryLove · 11-03-2007, 08:13 PM

I want to store all my contact information, but with a focus on personal rather than business contacts. I want to eb able to organize by categories of my life and attach notes and other pariphinalia (directories with photos, etc). I also want to be able to put in all my important numbers and details (like my credit cards and their numbers).

Outlook has some of this, but is inelegant. Any recommendations?

**Gustin** · 11-03-2007, 08:34 PM

Well, I'm kinda digging using iSync to sync with Address book and iCal on my Mac, but I'm pretty sure you're a PC user.

I tried a couple PC PIM apps, but unfortunately of the ones I tried, Outlook is probably the best (I don't even remember what some of the others were called).

_maranatha · 11-03-2007, 08:37 PM

Does ThunderBird offer this feature?

Bryan · 11-04-2007, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by JerryLove

I want to store all my contact information, but with a focus on personal rather than business contacts. I want to eb able to organize by categories of my life and attach notes and other pariphinalia (directories with photos, etc). I also want to be able to put in all my important numbers and details (like my credit cards and their numbers).

Outlook has some of this, but is inelegant. Any recommendations?

outlook does all that you want it to do, it may be unelegant, but as far as PIM goes, unless you want to pay $1000+ for a program, Outlook is the best.

JerryLove · 11-04-2007, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Bryan

outlook does all that you want it to do, it may be unelegant, but as far as PIM goes, unless you want to pay $1000+ for a program, Outlook is the best.

Really? Were is the area for storing credit-card information and asset inventories?

I *could* get what I want to store done in notepad, but the point i snot to.

Also, who the heck has a >$1k PIM? I don't think you are referring to a real product (in single user license anyway).

Bryan · 11-04-2007, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by JerryLove

Really? Were is the area for storing credit-card information and asset inventories?

I *could* get what I want to store done in notepad, but the point i snot to.

can't you just store that information in the "notes" section of outlook? You can also create custom fields as well.

JerryLove · 11-04-2007, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Bryan

can't you just store that information in the "notes" section of outlook? You can also create custom fields as well.

My point is that I could store everything I want in a text-file as well. The point of a PIM is to offer a more useful way of getting to that infotmation. A bunch of notes in Outlook is no more useful than a bunch of txts in a directory.

I'm really hoping to find something that offers an improvement over that.

Bryan · 11-04-2007, 03:08 PM

have you tried the custom fields in outlook?

JerryLove · 11-04-2007, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Bryan

have you tried the custom fields in outlook?

A bit, but outlook doesn't seem to be designed to store segrigated types of contacts and information.

I can likely accomplish what I want through the API, but I'm more likely to just build an app from scratch in C# if I'm going to go that way.

Bryan · 11-04-2007, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by JerryLove

A bit, but outlook doesn't seem to be designed to store segrigated types of contacts and information.

I can likely accomplish what I want through the API, but I'm more likely to just build an app from scratch in C# if I'm going to go that way.

well good luck.