Mindjet MindManager 8 Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this software to use as a tool to keep my information organized for my dissertation and also use it for classroom work. As one researches and compiles information in any form, organization is an issue that has to be dealt with early in a program. This software allows one to build mindmaps that can have linkages to documents, web sites, and media so it goes beyond the simple mind mapping software package. It literally allows you to have your mind mapped out on the screen for easy access to information that you have compiled. Linked docs can be viewed within the program in a browser or loaded outside with the native program that uses the document.
I have used many packages to attempt to meet this end and Mindjets MindManager works very well in this area. I recommend that one download the trial software from their site and use it to see if its interface is for you. There are other packages on the market that compete and I have found this one to be quicker and easier on the resources on my laptop.
This software can also be used in a shared mode which would be excellent for group work although all must own the package. Sharing can be done via the internet or within a linked network environment. It could be used as a clearing house for information in a knowledge management system.
If you are a student, there is a student version at a reduced price that can be obtained through the appropriate educational software sites.

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Free your mind with MindManager 8. MindManager uses mind-mapping technology to let you capture, organize, and communicate information using an intuitive visual canvas. Consolidate vast amounts of data and ideas from multiple sources, including the Internet and corporate databases, onto a single map. With the new integrated browser, search and editing features, you can stay focused on your task by staying in one application. Track your projects with greater ease with automated calculations of task progress. And now communicate your vision and ideas by transforming your map into a clickable Adobe PDF or Flash file. Work smarter and transform your ideas into action more quickly.

Break free from information overload--and soar to new heights Do you harness the wealth of data, Web pages, and other input that comes your way every day? Is there a way to use it more effectively to formulate new ideas, sharpen your focus, and ultimately drive your success? New MindManager 8 for Windows is the answer.
Unlike the usual linear-based approach of most productivity tools, MindManager 8 uses mind-mapping technology to let you capture, organize, and communicate information using an intuitive visual canvas. You'll be able to work smarter and transform your ideas into action more quickly.
Access the right information, when you need it MindManager 8 lets you quickly gather relevant information from the Internet and other resources.
Consolidate vast amounts of data and ideas from multiple sources onto a single map
Surf or search the Web from within MindManager 8, adding links to your map for future reference
Add dynamic content from customer databases, internal applications and other company resources

Stay in the zone and maintain your laser focus The integrated browser, search, and editing features, MindManager 8 eliminates these types of distractions so you can stay focused on the work at hand.
Navigate quickly through all your data and other assets
Find just what you need with powerful filter and search functions
View and modify Microsoft Office documents right within MindManager

Shift into high-gear and get things done With new automated task management in MindManager 8 you can quickly get a high-level view of status with visual indicators that bring things to light in a flash.
Map out tasks, start and due dates, resources, and status so that you don't miss a beat
Track project summary data effortlessly through automated calculations of task progress
Take control of project timelines, budgets, and resources by using Mindjet's JCVGantt add-on to MindManager 8

Communicate your ideas to the world (or just your corner of it) MindManager 8 lets you really strut your stuff by helping you connect and communicate your ideas with others.
Transform your maps into fully interactive Adobe PDF or Flash files--there's no special software required for viewing
Post your Flash maps on Web sites or your blog
Collaborate with others on maps in real time, or present your ideas on the Web, using Mindjet Connect

Quickly capture ideas and explore details visually
Visual ElementsFocus your ideas and tasks with a broad selection of icons and text markers. Easily format lines, topics & text to provide more clarity.
Attachments, Hyperlinks and NotesInclude other sources of information from Documents, Folders, Web Content or Maps. When working with Microsoft Office, you can view and edit files directly within MindManager.
Map FiltersSee only the data you need to see by defining your own selection criteria.
Microsoft IntegrationImport Outlook, Word, and Project files. Export to Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Project and Visio. Edit Microsoft Office documents directly within MindManager.
Task AutomationAutomatic summation of task, start dates, end dates and level of completion.
Web ServicesInsert dynamic data, images and search results from common Web applications like Google, Yahoo, eBay and Facebook.

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Quicken 2001 Deluxe Review

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(More customer reviews)I've used Quicken for over 5 years. Until this version I've been a big fan. This version has many unacceptable bugs. It's added up the wrong total on my credit card accounts. It leaks system resources until it crashes. It fails to update the status on several of the windows until you restart it. The bill minder sometimes doesn't flag an uncoming bill. Sometimes it will stop updating the screen and will not minimize. I seem to spend almost as much time handling techinal problems as I do my finances. This version seems to be thrown together so Intuit could make a quick buck.

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Quicken 2001 Deluxe helps you better manage the seven key areas of your finances: banking, investing, taxes, planning, spending and saving, loans, and insurance. It's packed with powerful features and enhancements across the seven areas to help you see the complete picture of your finances.
Easier Smart Reconcile helps you find and fix common mistakes. More powerful portfolio analysis tools give you greater insight into how your investments are really doing. And better ways to track and optimize your 401(k) help insure you're on the right path to retirement.
Write checks, print checks, or even send payments online. Schedule payments and receive proactive reminders for when they're due. Bank online conveniently, downloading your data from the Web. Access your account balances, transfer funds, and pay bills. Quicken works with over 1,200 banks, credit card, and brokerage companies.
See where it all goes with reports and graphs--get quick and easy answers to questions about your spending, budget, net worth, and more, and then create a budget you can realistically follow. Track your investments and then compare them, downloading prices on stocks and mutual funds right from the Web.
Note: Online features require Internet access and are subject to change. Additional fees may apply for online banking and bill payment. Services vary among financial institutions and are subject to their terms and conditions. $20 mail-in rebate for upgrade customers only.

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Softkey's ORG Chart Review

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(More customer reviews)Communicate quickly with a chart
Now you can produce great-looking organizational charts in a matter of minutes Org Chart automatically charts your data so every chart comes out right the first time- making it the ideal tool for businesses, churches, trade groups, sport teams and other groups. Just type in an outline and all the details of your organization's structure are instantly formatted inside boxes- each one perfectly sized, aligned and connected by easy-to-read pointers. With Org Chart, you'll be able to see at a glance who reports to who, who does what and how everyone fits in.
Key Features:
Include sample charts to customize
Automatic chart creation
Choose from a variety of flexible drawing tools
Import pictures of individuals, add graphics or use the pallete of 16 color variations
Flexible sizing and positioning of box variations and charts
Import any WMF file, Lotus data and more.
System Requirements:
IBM or compatible386SX or higher
Windows 3.1 or higher
DOS 5.0 or higher
Double-speed CD-ROM drive
4MB RAM
2MB disk space
Mouse
Windows compatible printer

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Act By Sage Premium for Real Estate 2006 Review

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(More customer reviews)I love this program with a few exceptions. It would be so much better if the report templates were easier to change/create, you could attach files to email templates for mail merge docs being sent to lookups/groups and didn't slow your system down so much. Otherwise, I use it everyday and can't imagine my business without it.

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Whether you're a single-agent or part of a broker business or a large workgroup, ACT! Premium for Real Estate can help you to become more productive and effective in managing prospects and customers. With more than 2.5 million individual users and 32,000 corporate customers, ACT! Premium for Real Estate continues to be the award-winning market leader in contact and customer management among real estate professionals. Centralize Buyer, Seller and Vendor InformationACT! Premium for Real Estate is a single, central repository for critical prospect and customer information captured across your business -- whether you are a one-person business or a large workgroup. ACT! Premium for Real Estate enables you to keep detailed prospect and customer information, group relevant contacts, capture all customer communications on the contact record, track opportunities through the sales process, and report on overall effectiveness.ACT! Premium for Real Estate can help you can track complete buyer, seller and vendor information including contact details, notes and history, appointments and to-dos, documents and sales opportunities. The Groups feature lets you easily communicate and schedule with related contacts can create up to 15 hierarchies of subgroups for managing information. Groups can even be utilized to track properties and contacts associated with those properties, and you can attach critical documents such as inspection reports, house photos, MLS listings, and more to the contact record.Instant Information Access for High Levels of Customer Service ACT! Premium for Real Estate allows you to search information in on any field, or search by key words to access contact and information immediately. Did you receive a call from a prospect but only caught the first four digits of their phone number? No problem. Simply perform a lookup on the phone number field and quickly find who you are looking for. You can also perform numeric lookups by ranges such as greater than or less than queries and save these queries for reusable searches.For quick and easy referencing, ACT! Premium for Real Estate allows you to track all of your critical contact and customer communications on the contact record. The software offers 30 letter templates customized for real estate in the areas of Letters to Buyers, FSBOs, Lead Follow-up, Open House Follow-up, Referral Letters, Letters to Sellers, and PR Campaigns for the Holidays. These custom letter templates were sourced from a respected real estate communications expert to improve your communications. ACT! Mail Merge allows you to correspond with multiple contacts (either via e-mail or paper correspondence) and automatically track a history on each contact record. Prioritize Your Work and Manage Your Leads Stay on top of appointments and tasks by scheduling activities using one of more than 20 activity types. Or, set up an Activities Series using one of the nine custom Activity Series specific to real estate including active listing, new listing, listing prospect, active buyer, new buyer, buyer prospect, and more. In addition, ACT! Premium for Real Estate offers multiple Calendar Views including daily/weekly/monthly/today views, as well as activity alarms, so you never miss an important appointment or deliverable.You can also import leads from a variety of sources so you can start turning those prospects into customers immediately. You can segment leads into relevant groups, schedule an activity series for all leads that you imported so you have a set marketing strategy with reminders of upcoming tasks, and send your first personalized communication using mail merge. The software also enables real estate agents to track sales opportunities through close utilizing the standard sales process or a process customized to suit your business.In addition to the more than 40 standard reports in ACT! Premium for Real Estate -- including phone lists, activity reports, and sales summaries -- you'll also have nine custom report templates for real estate at your disposal. These include: buyer completed activities, seller completed activities, activities by type and activities by contact so you can actively update your buyer or seller, see which marketing activities converted to sales, and determine the most effective communication vehicles. And best of all, you can synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contact and To-Do Information to your Palm OS or Pocket PC device, so you always have access to your critical contact information while you're on the road.

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Microsoft OneNote 2007 Review

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(More customer reviews)I've used version 2003 and enjoyed it thoroughly. I primarily used it for school with different classes and notes for each. What was great is that is consolidates everything in a way that makes it easy to retrieve your notes. It also makes it easy to generate reports based on the tagging feature. The tags allow you to highlight and gather key points of information that make writing papers a breeze. When working with paper, this was not always an easy task to take on.
Several weeks ago, I downloaded the trial version of OneNote 2007. The improvements are rather subtle, but powerful. It didn't take anything to get comfortable with the new features. After a short time with the trial version I just purchased it because it was so much fun.
Here are some of the beneficial features:
-Like a paper notebook you have sections, but with OneNote 2007 you can have as many sections as you like.
-You can easily link pages to Outlook. I have linked appointments to a series of notes and support files for various projects and meetings. It makes being organized for a meeting a breeze.
-Also, it's a great way to archive emails in a way that allows you to see them and organize them as you wish. You can empty your in box and at the same time keep a record of important emails. Well worth your time.
-It is also tablet friendly if you use a tablet PC like I do. I love it for that use. There is a fantastic text recognition feature that works EXTREMELY well. If you use a tablet, this is a great feature.
-As was with the earlier version, you can add voice content to your notes. That's right, voice recorded messages can be added to your notes. Too cool.
Before you buy, you might want to go to the Microsoft site and download the trial version. You'll be able to assess for yourself. I think you'll be pleased. I fond it to be one of the best products for 'electronic file keeping' that I've used. For the price, it's not a bad deal.


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Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that makes gathering and organizing your notes and information simple. Its powerful search capabilities so you can find what you're looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively. Use and manage typed or handwritten notes, scanned documents, and audio and video recordings -- more effectively than ever. Prioritize and manage tasks and to-dos efficiently; use note flags to mark and easily track actions and important items Make meetings more productive by giving everyone access to the same information -- status updates, presentations, documents, typed and handwritten notes and more Improve productivity away from the office -Take contents of your notebook with you and view them on your mobile device Capture information, photos and text to your Smartphone or Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC devices Integrates with Microsoft Office 2007 for OneNote 2007 and other Microsoft Office system programs

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Circus Ponies Notebook 3.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)I am an avid note-take, both for my engineering job and as a freelance writer. I used MS OneNote when I had a PC, but when I migrated to a Mac, I was left searching for a suitable replacement. I have used Aquamind's NoteTaker and NoteShare for the last several months. But that program is so burdensome to use, I just couldn't take it any more. I finally landed on Notebook, which has been a great fit. It is similar to the Aquaminds product, but much easier to use and works better with Mac OS X. So far it has integrated perfectly with Address Book, Mail, Grabber, Services, and other Mac system elements. Some of the best features are stickies and flags, as well as the Multidex, which creates an index of your Notebook on the fly using several different parameters (e.g., capitalized words, highlighted text, check boxes, flags, web clippings, attachments, etc.). This allows me to quickly find project information, web clippings, etc. Notebook also allows you to record audio notes, and if you take notes or type while audio is recorded, it keeps track of where during the audio the typing was done. Another very neat feature is that you export a full Notebook as an interactive web page and it behaves very similarly to the actual notebook. I have used this when I wanted to send project notes to a colleague. I exported the notebook and he was able to work it in his browser. Notebook also syncs to-dos with iCal, but I don't use this feature very much. I use Things for my To-Dos, which is a great program is you have lots of tasks and projects with a multitude of To-do's.
What about areas for improvement? The program acts a little funky sometimes when I use OS X's spelling corrector on the fly. The program will occasionally appear to freeze, but it does come back to life. There are other program tweaks that would be nice, but they are not significant enough to list out here. Notetaker has just the right features and is just comprehensive enough to not get in the way of taking notes.

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ACT by Sage 2009 (11.0) Review

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(More customer reviews)I unfortunately started with ACT! 2006!, and upgraded from there one. Every year since then a new version came out at about $100+ for the upgrade, and instead of cutting my losses, I purchased each upgrade. about $800 dollars later, I've had enough. Please note that I have never written reviews, but became so jaded about this program that I felt I had no other choice. Also, please note that I use act on my computer and my assistants.
This program is horrendous. It is extremely slow, crashes constantly, and has tons of error messages. I remember upgrading to 2009 just so that I could get another few months of tech support. It seemed as if the upgrade cost would make sense, considering their crappy support charges by the minute. Anyway it wasn't and now I am looking into getting my database converted (my biggest issues being the notes) at this I don't care how much I spend on the conversion, or even If I have to retype all my notes over. I hate this program, and will literally toss it out of my window as soon as I can. Trust me, look for an alternative. If you don't mind the effort, attempt in creating a database on filemaker, or just use outlook.

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