Personal Record Keeper 5

Once and for all, you'll know what you have and where it's stored. With 27 categories and 230 subcategories, Personal Record Keeper 5 provides a place for all your records, whether you're hoarding frequent-flyer miles or itemizing your Pez-dispenser collection. You're also less likely to misfile important information or go digging every time you need to retrieve those numbers you don't need every day, like your passport's expiration date.

While there were indeed many categories to list household items, there was no place to scan a photo or document. There is a box to tell me that there IS a photo of an item, but I assume that I am to store it in a shoebox. There is also a section to list military records and awards. It's a very nice thought but I don't think the Army will take a printout as proof if something should happen to the documents. Address books normally come with the software already on your computer. Pet records request that you list your pet's "personality", but there's no place to list shot records. The family member record format is better left to geneology programs. After about the hundredth time I was asked to input the location of a document, I wearied of typing "in the filing cabinet where it oughta be!"

This software is only for the organizationally dysfunctional stackers or junk drawer filers. If you have even somewhat tidy filing drawers, this program is completely unnecessary. The money is better spent on some new file folders.