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 Stinks August 7, 2008
Old Pro (Austin)
Sorry about this because I use the Franklin Covey system -- tha planning product is a mess. WAY too complex and not flexible at all.
DON'T BUY IT May 1, 2007
Elaina E. Jackson (Lake Tahoe)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nasty stuff. I could never even install it completely, and now it won't uninstall completely. Customer service at Franklin Covey was unable to help, and didn't really seem to care. This is garbage software, don't even think about buying it.
 Best productivity tool out there, but much room for improvement March 8, 2006
R. Clark
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Compared to using Outlook natively, or other productivity plug-ins (Getting Things Done or Clear Context), PlanPlus for Outlook 3.0 offers the best productivity features I've seen. The best feature is simply the ability to see your daily tasks next to your daily calendar in one view and the ability to prioritize these tasks within groups and assign relative priority as new tasks are added or deleted. Another great features is the Goals/Intermediate Tasks in the Weekly Planner which is great for creating high level goals, then breaking those goals down into achievable tasks that you can accomplish on a daily basis and schedule on your calendar or delegate to others. One bug with this is that the tasks on your calendar do not keep in sync with the tasks in your Weekly Planner (the Weekly Planner tasks should be Marked Complete when you mark the corresponding task complete and the due date should be updated when you update the due date on the task, and this should cause the overall due date for the goal to slip as well). Another functional shortcoming is the auto-ranking of tasks. It only works if you move a task (so if you have task A1, A2, and A3, moving A3 before A1 changes it to A1, and the others automatically renumber). However, if you add or delete a task, they don't automatically renumber unless you move one of the tasks and move it back. This just is annoying and makes no sense why they did it this way. Two other promising features are the PowerNotes and Project list, but I'm not sure why they don't integrate with Microsoft One Note and Project respectively since these are common office productivity tools commonly used in enterprises. For example, the ability to enter a detailed project plan and then schedule or assign individual tasks is very powerful, but the fact that you have to enter the project plan manually in PlanPlus makes no sense. Why not be able to at least import a MS Project file? And PowerNotes is incredibly powerful since you can take notes, even using digital ink on tablet PCs, and store web pages, or any other documents all in one place, but why not use MS Word or One Note as the document format rather than the proprietary PlanPlus format? It seems like the product team should focus on adding productivity features to existing Microsoft Office software rather than try and create competing inferior and incompatible products.
 Delivers as Advertised, but Lackluster Performance October 15, 2005
A. Meyer (Saint Paul, MN, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
GMP/FranklinCovey PlanPlus for Microsoft Outlook 3.0 works as promised. However, there were minor problems and annoyances that got me to uninstall the software. For example, the software relies heavily on the .NET framework, and this often caused lockups that required Outlook to be restarted. I liked the single view of my calendar, e-mail, tasks, and notes, but the interface needs updating to provide the look, feel, and funtionality of Outlook 2003. It was obviously designed around Outlook 2000 & 2002/XP, and therefore didn't harness some of the features of Outlook 2003. Overall, it was an average product that I give 3 stars.
swtester October 11, 2005
T. Farmer
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you want your HP printer driver to be USELESS, then buy PlanPlus. I purchased version 3.0 hoping the solution would be fixed -- it was not and after four years of having time to fix the problem.
Readers beware PlanPlus sw has had a bug in it (some say on purpose) to shut down most HP printers for the last four years unless you use a generic driver for the printer. Why is this the case? Well it is not hard to understand when you note the company makes great profit on its hardcopy planner page sales. Having SW that can print out planner pages, while they are trying to sell their own pages, was probably a bad idea by the company and their only solution is to sell the software but make it conflict with printing software.
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