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SOHO Organizer - 6.5

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All Time:	(2.5)
Version 6.5:	(3.7)
Selected Version:	6.5
Release Date:	2007-10-10
License:	Update
Downloads (version 6.5):	315
Downloads (all versions):	25,041
Price:	$99.99

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Product Description:

SOHO Organizer is the official successor to Personal Organizer and Group Organizer and represents a 100% Cocoa rewrite of the former products. This means SOHO Organizer presents a first-class Mac OS X experience complete with all the features Mac OS X users expect: Aqua interface, Unicode compliance, built-in spell checking, Service support, etc. Finally, the true benefit of a complete Cocoa rewrite is that SOHO Organizer is built for the future and can easily accommodate future technologies (think Intel-based Macs).

SOHO Organizer makes managing customer relationships from phone calls and notes to appointments and to-dos easy. It embraces and leverages popular Mac OS X technologies and applications instead of trying to replace them. For example, it synchronizes seamlessly with the Address Book and iCal so that users can continue to use them and other applications that rely on their data. Users can thus use Apple's iSync to synchronize their contacts and calendars in SOHO Organizer to cell phones, iPods, Palm handhelds, and even .Mac.

What's new in this version:

Added initial support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Added support for live-resizing of all-day events
Added a real-time current time indicator to Day and Week views
Event and task tooltips appear in calendar views to show detailed info without opening event/task
The Contact Summary pane in the Contact Card view now shows the created and modified dates
Added Skype support
Add extension support for US and Canada phone number formats
Added support for displaying form notes attached to contacts
Added toolbar items for individual contact and calendar views
Added ability to drag contacts onto Calendar List view to add attendees to events/tasks
Added ability to drag contacts to calendar views to create new events/task with attendee auto-linked
Added undo/redo support when event start/end times are changed via a drag
Added custom snooze option for calendar display type alarms
Added preference for a fixed size Notes block with a scrollbar
Added ability to edit the completion/cancellation date for a task
Added option to Calendar List view to show events, tasks, or both
Added Find Shared Calendars menu command
Added Undo/Redo support for event dragging
Fixed problem that caused software to lockup when switching to Month view
Fixed drawing glitch in calendar views when only showing the work weekdays
Fixed problem with linking organizations as attendees where the link wasn't marked as an organization
Changed vCal export encoding from UTF-16 to UTF-8 for better compatibility with iCal and other calendar programs
Fixed problem deleting events that had an alarm, attendee, recurrence, etc.
Fixed occasional problem adding/changing alarm types
Fixed problem that cut off phone numbers that didn't conform to a format
Fixed problem reading recurrence rules in subscribed calendars created by Thyme
Fixed time zone support problem that caused certain events/tasks to lose their calendar menu
Fixed problem where alarms were off by 12 hours for all-day events and tasks with no due time
The Task column now respects the list font size preference
Fixed problem that occurred when deleting all contacts
Fixed problem with Calendar List view not remembering its selection correctly
Fixed problem that caused glitchy drawing in phone formatter table
Fixed problem that caused the Notes block in the Contact Card view to jump strangely if lots of notes were present
Fixed problem moving forward/backward in Month view when custom weeks were showing
Fixed a problem in SOHO Sync that caused multiple CalendarOrder error messages
Fixed problem triggering recurring events with email alarms at specific times
Fixed problem where contacts weren't searchable by organization in Spotlight
Fixed problem that prevented images from being pasted in daily notes and journal entries
Syncing no longer loads changes from shared databases
Includes OpenBase 10.0.8 which includes several key improvements

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4.9 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 6.5:
Overall Rating:	(3.7)	Features:	(3.7)	Support:	(4.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.0)	Quality / Stability:	(3.7)	Price:	(3.3)

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Chronos Organizer - Version: 8.07, 11/2/2009 05:35PM PST

Seagull23

This product is seductive. The idea is great. Unfortunately, the execution is awful. Don't buy Chronos Organizer under any circumstance, no matter how tempting -- over the long run you'll waste time and energy. The product is irredeemably buggy, and the customer service is worse than bad -- it basically doesn't exist.

I bought version 5 years ago. It was buggy, a complaint common among users at the time. I stopped using the product and skipped version 6 because the reviews were so bad. Version 7 got better reviews so I tried it and was reasonably satisfied, although it always felt like the details of the program hadn't been thoroughly thought through.

Version 8 looks better -- for example, you can finally view phone calls and e-mails associated with a particular contact. In theory. In practice, I haven't been able even to save records of phone calls made because of a variety of error messages. Worse, the upgrade wiped out all previous phone records. E-mail to customer service goes unanswered -- and others note that it can go unanswered for weeks. Chronos has no phone, so there's no way to discuss or register displeasure. (They used to have a user forum, but discontinued it because of the incredible volume of complaints.)

I've seen many posts over the years which in effect say: use Chronos if you want, but beware. But my experiences with it is that the product and the company are so disfunctional it's better to avoid them both. Buy or use another product -- you may not get all the features that Chronos claims to offer, but you won't invest in a product that all evidence suggests is never going to be any good, and you won't give money to a company that refuses to even acknowledge its customers.

8.07 improves on previous versions, but... - Version: 8.07, 10/27/2009 10:37PM PST

Charles.Hadley

(posted to soho "support" site Oct 28, 2009)
organizer (incl notes) version 8.07 seems to work better than previous versions - the worst bugs I had identified (incl data loss in organizer calendar syncing and editing note titles in notes) seem to have been resolved. Grab to notes function is still very erratic and organizer is still catastrophically slow however (much worse than notes). also, of course, no sign of notelife, five weeks after it was submitted to apple...

Poor support, buggy product - Version: 8.06, 10/26/2009 04:22PM PST

golden2821

Stay away from Chronos. I tried to use SOHO Notes/Organizer and for 23 days of the 30 day trial is was buggy and unstable. Finally better and company has ignored my repeated requests for a trial extension and now is ignoring my requests for help to get out of SOHO the material I had put into it. The phone hasn't answered at all in the two business days I've tried and there's no point in submitting a new support ticket.

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Poor support, buggy product