EfficientPIM Editor's Review

EfficientPIM is a handy personal information manager. The ease to use, lots of interesting features, a nice design are just a few features which make this program a valuable office tool and not only.

The program is best suitable for office activity, but it can also be of use at home. The program allows you to manage effectively personal information of friends, partners, employees and acquaintances. On the left hand side of the window, there's a list of items to manage: Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Events, Diary, Notes, Password manager. When you first run the program, you can import predefined holidays such as New Year's day, Valentine's day, etc. You can choose whether to import U.S. holidays, U.K., Australian, Canadian and New Zealand's holidays.

In the Calendar section where you can enter events. You can edit the place, start time, end time, recurrence of the events and add comments or attach files. Reminders (with sound alerts) can be set in order not to miss any events. You can add all your contacts as well with all their identification data. Contacts, events and tasks can belong to several folders, so that you can have a quick access to all the information related to a project.

You can keep track of your projects, by setting up tasks. Here you can add the content of the task, start and due date, state, priority, people taking part in any task, etc. You can also keep a daily diary or even multiple diaries as the program has a nice word processor included.

A very useful feature is the password manager, where you can keep general passwords, software registration codes, e-mail accounts and FTP accounts. You can open URLs directly from EfficientPIM, but you can't auto fill online forms.

The program can be protected with a master password, so that no one will have access to your confidential data. Exporting the data into HTML or CSV file format is a valuable option of this program..

Pluses:

Drawbacks / flaws: A 'banking information' field is missing in the 'Contacts' section. The password manager won't fill automatically online forms.

In conclusion: A very good personal information manager, but I felt like I needed some more fields.

version reviewed: 1.01