Achieve Planner

Personal Time Management Software

Why Achieve Planner Is A Perfect
Complement To Microsoft Outlook
To Help You Get Things Done!

If you use Microsoft Outlook® for keeping track of your tasks and your schedule, you know how convenient it is to manage your to-do's in one central place.

It makes it simple to keep track of everything and know what your priorities are for each day. Or, at least it should.

However, Outlook’s task list is missing some important and essential features:

	It doesn’t support sub-tasks, making it difficult to break down big projects or tasks into smaller steps
	It doesn’t support easy prioritization and organization of tasks
	It doesn’t really distinguish between projects and tasks - making it awkward to manage multiple projects at the same time
	It doesn’t keep track of tasks associated with a specific project (unless you do it manually)
	It can be awkward to schedule project blocks in the calendar
	It doesn’t help you connect your daily actions to your mission, vision, and goals

If you are not careful, you can end up with a long, disorganized Task list with hundreds of items that overwhelms you rather than truly helping you get things done.

Achieve Planner takes Outlook’s convenience and control over your schedule and tasks to a completely new level.

With advanced planning, prioritizing, scheduling and goal-setting features, Achieve Planner is more than just a personal information manager — it’s a true life management tool that enables you to define your goals in every area of life and connect them to your daily actions.

It is a perfect companion for Microsoft Outlook users who want to take their productivity and effectiveness to the next level.

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It shows you how sub-tasks, prioritization, and scheduling can help you become a highly productive Outlook user.

While Achieve Planner doesn’t run directly within Outlook, it does support simple 2-way syncing with Outlook for appointments and tasks.

Achieve Planner Time Management Software

Achieve Planner is a Windows time management software system that helps you get organized, increase your productivity, and make better use of your time.

You can easily download and start using this powerful software right now...

Top Reasons Why Achieve Planner
Is Better Than Outlook’s Tasks List

1. Hierarchical (multi-level) Project/Task Outlines

Unlike Outlook, Achieve Planner uses hierarchical (multi-level) outlines to help you capture, organize, and manage your projects and tasks. You can easily break large tasks into smaller steps using as many levels as you need. Import your Outlook tasks directly into Achieve Planner (Outlook XP/2003/2007).

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2. Separate Projects and Tasks

While Outlook only allows you to keep track of tasks, Achieve Planner separates projects from their tasks. A project represents an outcome in your to-do list, while tasks are the individual action steps for each project.

Separating projects and tasks gives you a smaller, more manageable, and more effective to-do list. You can use the task list to plan details for each project independently from the others.

3. Schedule Your Projects in a Weekly Calendar

Unlike most to-do list software packages, Achieve Planner has an integrated Weekly Schedule where you can place "project blocks" linked to your projects, as well as keep track of meetings, events, and other appointments.

Achieve Planner Pro even keeps your weekly schedule synchronized with the Outlook calendar.

4. Prioritize Your Projects & Tasks Using ABCD System

Prioritizing your tasks is easy using the ABCD system Unlike Microsoft Outlook®, Achieve Planner fully supports the ABCD prioritization system helping you apply the 80/20 rule and spend your time on what is most important.

Each item in your list can be prioritized using ranked ("A1") or unranked ("A") priority values, which are automatically sorted and color-coded.

5. Track Effort and Compute Start/End Dates Automatically

Using Achieve Planner, you can store effort estimates for your tasks and record the actual time you spend on them. Achieve Planner Pro edition can automatically compute the expected start/end dates of your projects and tasks based on your effort estimates, priorities, and schedule. You will have a much better sense of when your work will be completed, and whether your deadlines are achievable.

You can schedule your project blocks manually using drag and drop or take advantage of the weekly planning wizard tool.

6. Plan Your Projects in Greater Detail

Achieve Planner lets you plan your projects in as much detail as you need. You can break down the project into its tasks using a hierarchical outline using as many levels as you need.

If you need, you can assign different resources to different tasks, which are used during the automatic scheduling. You can also establish predecessor/link relationships between your tasks.

7. Goal Setting Module for True Life Management

Planning and scheduling is about more than just getting work done. It’s about achieving goals and living a fulfilling life.

Now you can define your dreams and ambitions, determine your goals, and balance your life to achieve satisfying results:

	Organize your projects within result areas representing your major life dimensions and roles
	The goal organizer helps you set, plan and track your dreams & goals
	Capture everything you may want to do in each life area with the convenient wish list
	Develop mission and vision statements for your life areas
	Perform S.W.O.T (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis for each result area
	Track your short-term goals using relevant metrics and progress reports
	Plan your goals in greater detail by including vision statements, identifying obstacles, developing your strategy, and breaking your goal into smaller steps
	Integrate goals with time management by implementing your goals using projects and tasks