- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 09, 2009
- Total Downloads: 75,695
- Downloads last week: 131
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 82 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 17, 2009
While there are plenty of programs that help manage your daily tasks, many are terribly expensive. EssentialPIM offers a free way stay organized, and we found it to be a fairly effective program.
This freeware heavily mimics the display and functionality of the popular Microsoft Outlook program. This, however, is not a bad thing. In fact, it makes EssentialPIM very intuitive thanks to the toolbar along the left side that allows users to easily cycle through the calendar, to-do list, contacts, notes, and trash. Inputting data into any of these fields is fairly easy. Anyone with prior experience with time management software will leap right into creating reminders on the calendar, recurring to-do events, and more. The menus that create such items flow well, with versatile pull-down menus, fillable fields, and dates.
We had a simple time managing nearly all aspects of this program, but we did find that although the program is listed as free with no limitations, the freeware version lacks numerous features found in the paid version. Users looking for advanced features to sync with other programs, add advanced encryption, and filter task lists and events won't find those features in the free program. Still, if users don't need these options, EssentialPIM covers the basics and its price cannot be beat.
Publisher's description
From Astonsoft :This free personal information manager can store, manage and encrypt data: day/week/month/year schedules, to do lists for keeping all your tasks up-to-date, notes (pictures, tables, any formatted text), and contacts. Offers Rijndael 128-bit encryption, MS Outlook import/export, Windows Address Book import/export, search capabilities, versatile print features, and adjustable contacts storage with unlimited fields.
What's new in this version:
This release focuses on improving stability and performance with all known problems and omissions fixed since version 3.11. Most of the changes made are Mail module related.
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Version: EssentialPIM 3.12
"Lacking in task management capabilities"
Pros: Consistent with Outlook 'look' (very pleasing to the eye); imports data from Outlook;
Cons: No capability to create sub-tasks, so not easy to use for larger projects.
Summary: I uninstalled because there was not enough add-on value to the program.
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