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For
Immediate Release
Contact: Rodger Constandse, (888)
700-8205, rodgerc@effexis.com
New Time Management Software Helps You
Get Things Done
Effexis Software, LLC has released
Achieve Planner 1.1, a personal time management software
application for Windows that helps you get organized,
increase your productivity, and make better use of your
time.
San Diego, CA - August 17, 2005 -
Effexis Software, LLC has released version 1.1 of
Achieve Planner, a personal time management software
application for Windows that helps you get organized,
increase your productivity, and make better use of your
time. Outstanding features include hierarchical
project/task outliners, a weekly calendar, support for
ABCD prioritization, a rich text notes outliner,
advanced project management features, and
synchronization with Microsoft Outlook.
Achieve Planner was designed to help
busy people take control of their schedule, organize
projects and tasks, and get things done using sound time
management principles. By combining project management
functionality with a weekly schedule and hierarchical
to-do lists, Achieve Planner goes a step beyond what
traditional PIMs can offer. Its clean and intuitive
interface helps you easily capture everything that you
need to do in one central place.
Achieve Planner works by separating
projects from their tasks. Instead of having a single
to-do list full of unrelated activities, Achieve Planner
provides a project list that gives you an overview of
the various projects you are working on. Each project
then gets its own hierarchical task list to store the
individual action steps for that project. You can break
up big items into smaller steps using as many levels as
you need, and easily hide unwanted details.
The resulting project list is much
smaller and easier to manage than a traditional to-do
list because all the details are stored separately.
Achieve Planner allows you to concentrate on your major
outcomes, and only look at the low-level details when
you actually need them. You can then use the color-coded
ABCD system to prioritize your projects and tasks and
focus on what is most important.
After you have organized your projects
and tasks, you can use Achieve Planner's calendar to
schedule meetings and appointments, and to perform
weekly planning. In general, it is more effective to
work on related tasks for a block of time, rather than
jumping from one unrelated task to another. The reason
is that it takes a certain amount of time to "switch
gears" when you work on several unrelated tasks.
Achieve Planner uses "project blocks,"
which represent blocks of time that you have committed
to a particular project, to help you focus on project
specific tasks. You can think of project blocks as
appointments with yourself to get your important work
done. Achieve Planner even provides a weekly planning
wizard that allows you to choose how much time you want
to commit to different projects during the upcoming
week, and then schedule corresponding time blocks in the
calendar. During the week, you can easily rearrange your
schedule in case your priorities shift, or something
unexpected comes up.
Use Achieve Planner to keep track of
effort estimates, and record how much time you actually
spent on each task. Achieve Planner computes the
expected start and end dates of your projects and tasks
based on your effort estimates, your priorities, and
your schedule, which will give you a much better sense
of when you can expect to complete your work. If you
have deadlines for some of your tasks, Achieve Planner
will warn you if they are running behind schedule so you
can take corrective action early by increasing their
priority or allocating more time to them.
It's easy to learn to use Achieve
Planner. The Getting Started wizard gives you an
overview of all the main features, and there is
extensive documentation in the help file. You can start
by using the basics and work your way up to some of the
more advanced features.
Whether you are a busy professional
who needs to make better use of his/her time, a
practitioner of David Allen's Getting Things Done
methodology who wants a software solution, or a student
trying to keep track of classes and assignments, Achieve
Planner has all the tools that you need to work more
effectively and take control of your time.
Achieve Planner runs under Windows
98/Me/2000/XP/2003, costs $69(US) for the Pro edition
and $59(US) for the standard edition, and may be
purchased securely online at http://www.effexis.com/.
You can download a free 30-day trial version of Achieve
Planner at the same web address.
For more information, contact Effexis
Software, LLC 6940 Forum Street San Diego, CA 92111
Email: info@effexis.com
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