Organize This: Franklin Covey Tablet Planner for Tablet PC


Organize This: Franklin Covey Tablet Planner for Tablet PC

Manufacturer: Franklin Covey

Web site: www.franklincovey.com/tabletplanner/trial.html

Estimated price: $149

Are you the type who runs around with a day planner all day, counting on your notations to get you to the right place at the right time? You may just decide to give your day planner up after you’ve tried the Franklin Covey Tablet Planner for Tablet PC. You can use your pen to jot down appointments, take notes in a Windows Journal–type environment, and make entries in built-in electronic forms, such as a car mileage log, check register, or expense form.

The planner uses a browserlike environment, allowing you to use Back and Forward buttons to move among the pages you display. You can change views to show a daily, weekly, or monthly calendar (as shown in Figure 14-3).

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Figure 14-3: The Daily view shows all the things you have to do, notes, and appointments for each day on one screen.

The variety of forms included is impressive. In the Key Info area, you can find everything from an exercise log to a travel itinerary (as shown in Figure 14-4) and medical record forms. You can look up world time zones and catalog your personal property.

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Figure 14-4: These forms provide a useful place to organize information you need to keep a record of.

Go to the Contacts tab of the Planner (just tap on the tab from anywhere in the planner, just like a tab in your dog-eared paper day planner), and you can take advantage of contact-management tools. This feature lets you add phone directories from most software that includes contact information, such as Outlook; but the most robust contact-management capabilities seem to be promised for future versions of Tablet Planner. (For example, I found no way to actually make a phone call in the Contacts area, which is a feature most contact-management programs have.)

Other useful tools in the Tablet Planner include capabilities to apply priorities to tasks and appointments, search by keywords, and sort. You can also use your Tablet PC’s wireless infrared connection to share contacts and appointments with your desktop computer or PDA.




Tablet PCs for Dummies
Tablet PCs for Dummies
ISBN: 0764526472
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 139

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