Infoware - Outlook Reminders Improved with Important Dates +

Outlook Reminder Software Solutions
The Case for Important Dates+

Is Outlook a key technology resource for your business?

Feel that Outlook's native reminder system - the Follow-up Options - don't go far enough to meet your business needs?

As an Outlook user, have you ever wanted to have reminders in your mailbox sent to a Pager or a PDA?

Do you want to manage tasks at your firm but feel Microsoft Project is overkill?

The Outlook Reminder Gap? In our work as a technology consulting firm, Infoware found that many of our users didn't feel that Outlook's native reminder system provided enough flexibility for sending reminders. Originally developed as a bring-forward (or tickler) system for our legal clients, Important Dates+ [Online DEMO] provides end users with the flexibility and utility in a notification system that is demanded in the workplace. Simply, the Important Dates+ add-in provides the notify options required by Office users.

If you are a frequent Outlook user, there are four reasons why you should consider Infoware's Important Dates+ add-in as a necessary add-in for your Office installation.

Outlook Reminder interface

1. Set Reminders for all Outlook Items

Outlook as it is shipped by Microsoft will only allow users to place reminders on personal Appointments and Tasks and follow up flags on Mail and Contact items. These reminders can only be set to popup one-time and cannot be set on public folders items.

As an Outlook-based reminder system, Important Dates+ provides users with tremendous flexibility for notifying users. With the Important Dates+ program, users can receive notification regarding any mailbox item - such as appointments or tasks. Additionally, users can place an Important Dates+ flag on any public folder item. For each iteam, users are able to select the frequency at which they receive notifications, whether it be daily, weekly, monthly or a custom sequence.

2. Send Reminders to Other Email Addresses

Our Outlook reminder software removes the limitations of follow-up flags while retaining the powerful features and connectivity of Office. The second feature which makes our add-in truly unique is the ability to send any email user a reminder on an item. Need to remind your team of an impending due date? Simply type in a distribution list email address or any number of individual email addresses into the Important Dates+ application window.

3. Outlook Reminder Add-in allows Notes for each item

The third Important Dates+ feature that makes our software unique is the ability to add notes to each reminder item. This provides an easy means to add more detail about a notifciation item and can be used to give instruction to your team members. Notes are visible to all Important Dates+ message recipients.

4. Our Outlook Reminder Software generates Simple Summary email for all items

Many people find Outlook's pop-up reminders annoying. The fourth most powerful feature of our add-in solution is that instead of receiving multiple pop-ups for items, the Important Dates+ system sends reminder recipients a digest of items - all reminders are sent as a single email message to each user. Hyperlinks are presented within each notification message, giving users a very simple means of collaborating with others.

Sample Email

Infoware's Important Dates+ program is a great way to manage simple team tasks or due dates. Our firm has many years experience developing robust Office add-ins and Exchange-based productivity solutions, see Infoware's Outlook Add-ins. For more details about how Important Dates+ works, see Outlook Reminder software.

Outlook Reminders for Complex Tasks - InPlan

InPlan - Project Planning and Due Tracking Tracking

An Outlook-based project management tool, InPlan is the evolution of the Important Dates+ product. The InPlan add-in allows administrators to build relationships between various project tasks and dynamically manage phase due dates. InPlan allows your company to manage critical interrelated due dates of different project phases. Using the program, information entered by one person can be shared by the team, or with specific individuals. For each Project, a manager or administrator will use a Project Model that outlines the tasks required to successfully complete a project. As tasks are marked complete, InPlan will automatically adjust the project timeline and assign new tasks as appropriate. Automatically generated notification messages ensure that your team is up-to-date on that project's status. The program ships with 3 generic project XML models. InPlan requires Exchange Server.

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