CNET Editors' review
Efficient Calendar Free is an attractive scheduling application that lets users to keep track of events, appointments, holidays, and more. If you're looking for a stand-alone calendar that's not integrated with your e-mail or other online activities, Efficient Calendar Free is a great option.
The program's interface is sleek and highly reminiscent of more recent versions of Microsoft Outlook. In fact, we'd be hard pressed to identify any ways that Efficient Calendar Free differs significantly from the calendar functions of Outlook, aside from the fact that it doesn't appear that this program can be used interactively by multiple users (no inviting other users to meetings). We liked that users can choose from eight different color schemes, allowing a bit of interface customization. The navigation pane can also be customized to show only the buttons that the user specifies. The built-in Help file is thorough and well written.
Efficient Calendar Free does all of the usual things you'd expect from a calendar and scheduler. Users can schedule reminders, set tasks and mark their progress, and make entries in both daily and monthly calendars. We like that Efficient Calendar Free lets you import holidays from several different English-speaking countries. You can even customize which holidays are imported. Overall, there's nothing really spectacular about this scheduler, but it's attractive and intuitive, and we didn't find anything about it that rubbed us the wrong way.
Efficient Calendar Free is free. It installs and uninstalls without issues. We recommend this program to all users.
Publisher's Description
From EfficientSoftware.net:
Efficient Calendar Free is scheduler, planner and reminder all-in-one. It saves your time by allowing international holidays and major holidays of some countries to be imported directly. Multiple calendar views, such as Day and Month views as well as list view are available so you can better arrange and track your appointments and events. Events and tasks can be differentiated by colors, so you can manage schedules in the most visual ways. The "First Thing First" principle is followed and you can set importance and priorities for events and tasks. All appointments, meetings, events and tasks can be reminded in time as you configured, and you will never miss any important event.
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"The Best Of Outlook, Without The Bloat"
Version: Efficient Calendar Free 3.0 Build 320
Pros
I've been using this calendar program for years. It's a great, colorful way to assign tasks and dates and reminders on your PC.
Cons
None. Fully unlocked costs some money, but it does a great job for a free program.
Summary
I would also recommend this program that would like to have a no-frills, Outlook-based calendar program on their PC without having to commit to Outlook on your PC.
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"A great calendar application."
Version: Efficient Calendar Free 3.0 Build 320
Pros
It does every thing Outlook does.
Cons
None at this time.
Summary
This is the ideal planner I was looking for; wish I could get it on my Archos tablet. I will recommend this application to others.
Thanks for the free app.
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