Download/HomepageRed Box now has even more organizing power! You can easily get a handle on
the tangle of appointments, phone contacts, meetings, deadlines, project notes, and
timelines -- plus have Internet access and HTML publishing abilities at the click of a
button. This is an ingenious PIM that pulls together all your time management loose-ends,
within your office and around the world. It's gorgeous to look at and foolproof to use.
One or multiple users can be set up on Red Box, and the new Internet Book allows instant
email and launching of URLs without leaving the program. The new Data Publishing Wizard
instantly generates web-ready HTML pages of your Planner, To-Do, Calendar, and Address
Book contents, making information-sharing speedy and painless.
Instant access is yours, to the Calendar (daily, weekly, monthly -- and it automatically
cross-references); To-Do list, Address Book, Notes, Reports, Anniversaries, Reminders,
Phone Dialer, and Link Manager. You can enter information from the keyboard, the
clipboard, import and export files to/from other organizers and text editors, and even
share data with other Red Box users (like for merging address books, schedules, and
reports).
Red Box Organizer accepts data from organizers that include Sidekick 95, Lotus Organizer
versions 1.1 and 2.1, and Schedule+ version 7.0, and any other programs that support TXT
and CSV formats. It supports import/export and messaging for network user groups, and
multiple users can be configured on a single machine. Optional password access can be set
up for security.
Other new features in this version include capability to adapt the Windows custom color
schemes you may set up, and a cool restyling of the Toolbar and sounds. It's also been
improved to work more smoothly with Lotus Organizer and Sidekick imports, Call Notes, and
Recurring Events. I've always found that Red Box worked fast, and these improvements make
feature-access and operation even better.
There's a handy Suggestions box in the Calendar you can personalize to speed up
frequently-made entries, and Background operation allows Red Box to work quietly in the
system tray to deliver reminders and alarms. By right-clicking the Red Box tray icon and
selecting your user-name, you get a pop-up overview of the day's schedule without opening
the regular program window. Very convenient!
Every scheduling function is self-explanatory and intuitive in its use, but a drop-down
help menu offers ideas as needed. Calendar entries are automatically cross referenced
across the daily, weekly, and monthly listings, plus are entered on the Planner timeline
so you never lose track or have to remember to make manual entries -- it becomes close to
impossible to lose track of deadlines or appointments. This makes any conflicts in your
schedule easily diagnosed at a glance. And I really like how easy it is to track recurring
events -- such as an important group meeting that's held the 2nd Friday each month, for
example. I've no worries about scheduling those anymore!
Instant Reports can be generated, in the date-ranges you select, from your Calendar (by
matching text), To-Do list (by priority), Anniversary (by matching text), and Address book
(by personal and business lists). Just pick your parameters, and Red Box assembles it in a
blink, and you can export the results to another program or user.
The Link Manager ties every Red Box entry together, in flowchart style, showing the
interaction of related entries across the whole Organizer. For example, if you were
managing Project A, the Link Manager pulls in every relevant project date (from Calendar),
project notes and action items (from To-Do), communications (from Address Book), and
connects the interdependent items (by date or content). Is this a project manager's dream
come true or what? And the Planner gives you a visual timeline view of project dates,
plus, the viewer section of the Planner, shows all time-relevant items from the Calendar,
To-Do, and main Planner. Never have a deadline fall into a Black Hole again.
For all this function, Red Box Organizer is remarkably fast and doesn't gobble up a lot of
disk space. There's a program level help, and feature level help, yet you may not need it
often since the program is innately sensible. I've found it frustration-free and enjoyable
to use. Red Box is free to try, fully functional, for 30 days. If you need a bombproof,
affordable organizer that's well supported, I think you'll find Red Box Organizer very
impressive.
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