On her commute to work, Carmen settled into reading—this morning it was the latest bestseller—and came upon a captivating turn of phrase. "I want to remember that," she thought, and dug into her purse for a pen and scrounged for a scrap of paper. What...
Sports have a way of equalizing the skills of participants so that their performance is comparable. The players are given a “handicap”. In everyday life, however, a handicap is not given, but is something one has and it does not equalize our ability....
Recently I read an article about how to make one’s footprint more green and it described ways to reduce energy consumption when using the internet. One example it reported is a provider who set up servers in the tower of a wind turbine to get...
We can't be certain, but shortcuts were likely among the first inventions. Imagine the first hunter returning from his forage, meal in hand. "That was a good spot, but there must be a quicker way to get there," he thinks. And so begins the hunt for a...
EssentialPIM 11.5 has been released and includes a number of enhancements. Let's look at several, beginning with tasks, which are easier to create, organize, and find with the introduction of "quick task" and Smart Lists. A faster way to create tasks...
Those who use word processors say styles are one of the most powerful tools in these applications. EssentialPIM is not a word processor, but its Notes module does have this important feature. In this post, we'll look at how styles work in EPIM and can...
Back then, managing schedules was a long and arduous process for businesses. Imagine, secretaries had to jot down appointments on calendars, and if there were any changes, they needed to rewrite the details all over again as they put the engagement on...
We saw it when our children were little and then with our grandchildren, too. "It" is the urge to organize things. They sorted blocks by color, shape and size or rounded up stuffed animals according to their kind. They differed in how they organized,...
Not many software packages reach the eve of their 20th anniversary. Most are sold, absorbed by another, or fade into abandonware. This puts EssentialPIM among the elite of personal organizers as we close in on 2025, two decades from its debut. The user...
We looked in the last post at how EssentialPIM Pro Business Edition (EPIMBE) is not just for businesses, but for families, too. What distinguishes the Business Edition is the availability of a single database to a group. If you need to see and update...
EssentialPIM released version 11.2 for New Year's and summarized the significant enhancements in the announcement. Several of these affect Mail, which we'll review in this post. Mail introduces translation You can have EssentialPIM translate emails you...
One year ends and a new one begins, which gets us in the mood to consider how EssentialPIM has changed in the last twelve months and what is ahead. Windows EPIM began in 2022 at version 10.0.2, announced the major release of 11.0 in July, and is now at...
EssentialPIM has issued another release, 11.6.5, since our last post. Let's look at a few of its enhancements and then close with the answer to a user's question. Find Previous extends searching in Notes To search for content both after and before the...
I am new to sticky notes, even though EssentialPIM introduced them in 2008 and I began using EPIM three years earlier. I resisted digital stickies because they cluttered the screen, but they have evolved through the years into less invasive, helpful...
Three releases of EssentialPIM 9.9 appeared in June, offering several enhancements and some new features across the modules. We're up to v9.9.6, tantalizingly close to the release of EssentialPIM 10. Let's take a look at some of what EPIM 9.9 has...
We reviewed in a previous post several enhancements that EssentialPIM v11.2 introduced in Mail. Here, we'll look at other changes EPIM 11.2 has brought. Arrange module toolbars the way you want Aware that users like to control how their work area...
John Lennon had a dream, and so do I. Imagine all the people sharing EPIM-cloud... You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. And now AEPIM 6.0 is bringing my dream to pass, allowing me to synchronize my Android and Windows devices via EPIM...
I have used EssentialPIM for Windows since 2005, but EPIM Android (AEPIM) for only the past four months. There are reasons for this. Foremost, I shunned Android apps because I prefer traditional technology. When word processing appeared, I relinquished...
How do you use EssentialPIM? The answers are as varied as the people who use this app to manage their personal information. I put the question to the EPIM family, first by exploring the forum for posts about EPIM's use and then by contacting some...
Your personal organizer is as good as your last backup. If you delete or corrupt your information and can't recover it, panic sets in. A backup saved my career as a programmer. It wasn't for my personal organizer but an online mainframe database that...