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...
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...
EssentialPIM dips into project management with the introduction of a Kanban board in version 10. Users have requested project management tools in EPIM, mentioning Kanban as early as 2015. Adding Kanban came up again in the forum in 2019. Now, it's...
EssentialPIM is helping me shop better, and this is no small feat. It's an accomplishment because I am not a shopper. My first job was in a grocery store where I stocked shelves, packed bags, and served up cold cuts, cheese, and salads from the deli....
A reader of our last post asked to know more about how I use tasks in EssentialPIM to track my work hours for posting in my company's timekeeping system. Let me give some details. I am a systems consultant assigned to several projects simultaneously,...
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...
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...
Development of EssentialPIM v11.0 is solid enough that its release candidate is now available. Two significant features include multiple calendars and a sidebar that you can control in each module. This sidebar supports several other changes that alter...
Four minor releases of EssentialPIM have appeared since we looked at version 11.8. Most of these addressed defects and improved synchronization with various services, but three enhancements deserve a closer look. 1. Dates include the day of the week...
Software and friends can be alike — no matter how long you know them, they can still surprise you. I have been using EssentialPIM since 2005 and was recently surprised by a feature in Notes that I discovered by chance. I'll come to the surprise later,...
Tasks is the module I use most during my workday and at the end of the day I filter them to record my hours in our timekeeping system. I have noticed the yellow Customized View Bar that pops up but haven't paid it much attention, even though I've used...
Most announcements about new releases of software include a generic line such as "Other optimizations and bug fixes." EssentialPIM v11.0 is no different. The last two posts have covered the significant changes in version 11. Here, let's take a look at...
EssentialPIM v11.6 has been released and we will look at some of the significant changes in this post. A complete list of updates is available in the news page. New backup and sync options for EPIM Cloud EPIM Cloud has been added to the online services...
The newspaper that I delivered through my teen years is out of business and the insurance company where I began my IT career has merged so many times that it is unrecognizable. So, how is it that EssentialPIM keeps shining after 16 years when we use an...
Enza has been using EssentialPIM for a few weeks and wants to know how to make the calendar and other information available family-wide. Besides hers and her husband's work schedules, there are the school activities for their son and daughter to...
EssentialPIM released version 11.8 in December with a combination of new features and enhancements. We'll look at four of them in this post. 1. Send invitations for events and tasks The new release connects appointments and tasks with email, making it...
On Monday morning, January 3, 2000, programmers around the world relaxed. There had been no bank failures; no widespread shutdowns of water, electric and energy systems; and no panic. The years-long scramble to code computers to recognize four-digit...
I have three EssentialPIM databases which I learned recently I should consider digital assets. The term "digital assets" surfaced about 30 years ago when a variety of files—videos, images, audio, and documents—were stored on hard and floppy drives....
I have three EssentialPIM databases that I want available to some extent on five devices. In this post, I want to describe my solutions, ask for your feedback, and tell a few things I've learned about synchronization. Here is my situation. I have a...
We're excited to announce the release of EPIM 11.5! This new version comes packed with features and improvements that will enhance your productivity and help you get more done in less time. The major new features included in this release are listed...