Free organizers and reminders. Exiland Assistant notebook program
Various kinds of organizers are among the most popular programs for both PC and mobile devices. With their help, you can effectively plan your personal and business life, and just conveniently and any other information.
One of the best programs of this type is Microsoft OneNote - an organizer that is part of the Microsoft Office package.
Last year, the company released a version for Mac OS, and recently made full-featured versions for all platforms completely free.
The current version is Microsoft OneNote 2013, and you can download and install it from the official website http://www.onenote.com/
Let's take a closer look at the features of OneNote and the benefits that the user will receive when using this program.
Program Organizer
After installing this organizer, you will be able to:
Save notes with text and images, and group them in any way;
create various notebooks and tabs in them;
save fragments of web pages, with the ability to view even without an Internet connection;
and quick notes;
storage of notebooks in the cloud, with synchronization between devices;
sharing for common work;
the ability to add labels for cataloging;
local search by notes;
integration with scanners and other Office products;
as well as many other nice features.
Compared to the popular Evernote, this organizer has a more user-friendly interface, and now it's completely free. In general, according to the logic of work, the product is not similar to anything else from Microsoft.
Even if you have never worked with OneNote before this time, thanks to the intuitiveness of work, you can master it without problems. For example, after a week of working with this organizer, I already realized that there is simply no point in switching to something else.
The program captivates with the convenience of storing and organizing large amounts of information. For example, if you are preparing to launch an online store or a communication site, OneNote can collect and organize all the necessary data for the project.
All changes you make are saved in the background, you do not need to perform any additional actions. And at the same time, you can be absolutely sure of the safety of your data.
When creating a new notebook, you can choose where to store it:
If you need access from all devices, choose OneDrive. If you want to restrict access exclusively to your computer, specify the desired folder.
The menu is organized in the form of a ribbon that has already become classic for Office products, in which all the functionality of the program is grouped by tabs:
By the way, an interesting and useful feature is that when you copy a piece of text from a web page and paste it into OneNote, a link to the page where it was taken from will be saved under the text itself. Thus, you will never lose information about its original source:
Another feature that can be useful for many is the ability to send a document “for printing” to a OneNote virtual printer. It appears in the list of devices immediately after installing the program. The document, of course, is not printed on paper, but simply sent as a note to a notebook.
The colors of the tabs can be changed as you wish, making it easier to navigate when looking for the information you need.
There can be quite a few use cases for OneNote. Based on my own experience, I can suggest the following options:
- universal organizer. The most obvious use case, which is what the program was designed for. You can easily create notebooks dedicated to various aspects of your life: hobbies, work, personal affairs, etc.
- cooking notebook. Keeping paper records is clearly not an option, and searching for specialized applications will give you zero results. In that case, OneNote is exactly what you need. You can use the program exclusively for these purposes, or you can simply group everything in a separate notebook;
- data cataloging. With this program, you can structure and organize in a convenient way, almost any information. Even when it comes to really large amounts of data.
Of course, these are not all possible uses for this really handy tool. The main advantage of Microsoft OneNote over other applications of this kind is the almost complete freedom of action for the user.
By the way, if you use a browser at work, there is an interesting “Send to OneNote” extension for it, with which you can copy content from any page and send it immediately to OneNote. At the same time, all page formatting, images, links and other elements are preserved in high quality.
The clean, ribbon interface of the program captivates with its simplicity and convenience. At the same time, you definitely will not feel a lack in terms of functionality.
Almost all people working at a computer collect and maintain various information about people and organizations: customer base, relatives: birthdays, addresses, names, surnames, phone numbers, Internet links to sites, passwords to sites, notes, articles. Finding a notebook program for a computer that would combine fragmentary information scattered here and there into a single database was not so easy.
So you want to everything was in one program(a convenient organizer), and not ten, so that you don’t have to keep notebooks, glue resembling leaflets. Maybe it is Assistant, just the very program that will become your personal assistant at work and at home? So let's keep everything in one place. Speaking about this utility, it is worth noting that this is not just a diary, but powerful personal data management system.
I was looking for a notebook program in the old proven way
Through search engine Google. And what did it turn out? There is really a lot of software. After reading the descriptions and reviews, I picked up what I needed and downloaded 4 programs. In fact, it turned out that I was not able to launch 2 of them, although I seemed to do everything correctly, according to the instructions on the manufacturer's website. In one, such obvious flaws are visible that I simply did not want to work with it - it gives errors out of the blue. And the last one, apparently the best among free organizers, did not suit me either, although according to the description it had all the necessary functions. With what? I was offered a list of names, then, for example, to view a photo of this person, I had to go to this person's card and find the "Photo" section there. But I wanted the visibility of the data: here is a person for you, here is his photo, address, phone number, e-mail, that is, a minimum of clicks
After a little more searching, I was about to give up. But then I came across a screenshot from the Exiland Assistant notebook program. It's free and looks very nice. and, as it turned out later, very easy to use! Right there, on the official website, I saw the opportunity to download the organizer for free - the free version of Free. Downloaded, looked - what you need! Simplicity and clarity are evident.
Managing personal data in the Exiland Assistant notebook
Unified information database of contacts and tasks
Notebook allows you to maintain a database of contacts and organizationsAfter leaving new version popular electronic organizer personal data management has become even easier, more convenient, and reliability has become higher. Customer base, contacts of all your acquaintances, friends, employees with detailed information, photos, a list of organizations with their details, computer companies, shops, banks, clinics, etc. can now be stored in a single information database located on the hard drive of your PC, Flash drive or on another machine local network. This increases the security of your data, because they are stored on your PC or flash drive, and not somewhere in someone else's cloud. Storing a diary directly on a Flash drive along with a database is especially convenient - this makes it possible to use it at work and at home. The program has long become an indispensable daily assistant for many users.
Quick search for contacts in a notebook
Imagine that a colleague called you asking for the phone number of your mutual friend. You rush through your bag to find notebook and find the correct phone number. Unlike a printed book, the program greatly simplifies data search. To find a phone, you just need to enter in the quick search field that part of the information that you know: part of the name, surname, e-mail address, postal address or a few digits from the phone number. The organizer will immediately find and show you the person you are looking for. If you do not remember in which section you made an entry, use the detailed end-to-end search in all sections at once. Detailed search allows you to easily find the information you need, both in the title of the notes and inside the texts of these notes; the name of Internet links, links to resources or any information field of people or organizations.
The new version has the ability automatic e-mail distribution of messages on the basis of persons or organizations. You can easily send a new price list or promotional terms to your customers.
What does the Exiland Assistant notebook consist of?
The Exiland Assistant electronic notebook consists of 6 main sections - in fact, these are the 6 types of records that it can store:
- Contacts- people, their phone numbers and addresses, accounts social networks, photography, personal details
- Organizations- enterprises and firms, contact persons, field of activity, addresses of branches, telephones, e-mail, fax, opening hours and much more
- Tasks- project cases, household chores for today or a week
- Notes- any of your arbitrary entries: culinary recipes, interesting thoughts, plans, passwords, etc.
- Links- links to local or remote files and folders, web links to sites and web resources
- Events- calendar holidays, personal holidays, events
It allows you to share data with friends, colleagues, relatives. It is enough just to export the data you have chosen to one of the acceptable formats: vCard, TXT, RTF(MS Word), HTML, Excel, send it to your friend or colleague on a storage medium or by e-mail.
The organizer program contains a built-in task scheduler designed for doing business and planning your time. The diary also includes a reminder function, which will allow you to remember to do something very important, not to miss an event or call a colleague on time.
The versatility of the diary allows us to attribute it to the number of organizers, programs for creating a card index, business programs for maintaining a customer base, personnel accounting programs, software for business, CRM systems.
The main window of Exiland Assistant. Interface.
The interface (appearance) of the electronic notebook - Exiland Assistant programs - is its main advantage over other organizer programs that I have met. It is very simple and understandable at a glance. On the left - a tree of sections in which there are groups. Each group can contain entries. By clicking on a group in the tree, the records contained in this group will be displayed in the middle of the window. On the right - a panel of detailed information, where you will see all the details of the selected entry: photo, address, phone numbers, date of birth, and much more.
Exiland Assistant - notebook program for Windows 10,8,7 One person can be in several groups, for example, he can be in the "Relatives" and "Colleagues" groups at the same time. The person and organization card contains many fields. Even if you don’t find some fields, for example, the series and number of a person’s passport, you can add them. Extensible data structure will allow you to add missing input fields to enter information.
The Exiland Assistant diary program has the ability to make your personal notes, passwords, keep a diary of events, store Internet links, links to files or folders, maintain a customer database (both legal entities and individuals) - in general, all the data that you can think of . It is convenient to carry out a quick and detailed search in the program.
Help in the Exiland Assistant organizer program is made for inexperienced users in an understandable human language, which is now, unfortunately, a rarity. Although, I think, the help is not particularly needed - the organizer is already as simple as possible, everything in it is done intuitively, clearly and logically.
Tons of other useful features
In addition to the functions that have become traditional for most organizers, Exiland Assistant can store:
- internet link directory
- links to files
- folder links
- links to company price lists
- links to other entries within the program, for example, you can link people based on kinship
Moreover, right from the organizer you can perform email newsletters to your contacts, for example send out invitations to friends and family or any commercial offer to your customers.
Assistant can interact with Microsoft Outlook and exchange contact information with it. If your smartphone model "can" synchronize contacts with Microsoft Outlook, then you have a unique opportunity to store all contacts in Assistant, and if necessary, transfer them to your smartphone. To do this, you just need to export person records from Assistant to Microsoft Outlook.
But that is not all. The notebook "can" be minimized from the SysTray system area, next to the clock, so as not to interfere with your work. And when you need to look into the diary, press the key combination you specified (Ctrl + Q by default) and it will instantly appear in front of you.
extremely helpful for me it turned out to be the function of generating reports according to a pre-configured template in Word - it allowed me to automate part of the routine for creating contracts, orders, statements. I simply inserted certain tags into the body of the docx-file (MS Word), instead of which specific surnames and other fields from the database were substituted during generation. Everything is so ingenious and simple.
Multi-user version for organizations
The Enterprise version is a corporate notebook - a system that allows you to organize a single database of contacts and tasks and work with it for different users with their pre-configured rights and access levels. You can combine users into groups (roles) by analogy with the rights system in Windows.
The main advantage is the ability to exchange data with a common (central) database located on the server machine. This is especially convenient for maintaining a single database of clients. The Exiland Assistant Server allows simultaneous communication with multiple LAN clients.
Each client always works only with its own local database located on the user's PC or its flash drive and can periodically synchronize its data with the central database on the server.
Scheme of synchronization of Exiland Assistant Enterprise client programs with the server You can run the Enterprise version working autonomously, independent of the server: at home, at work, cafe, moving with a laptop (notebook) or flash media (flashdrive). It is desirable to only periodically synchronize with the server when it is available. This can be done by a button from the client program or automatically at a specified interval, for example every 15 minutes.
Data security
IN Free versions and Personal, all database data is stored in the local encrypted and further encoded file curdata.esb on your PC hard drive or Flash media in the program folder, and in the Enterprise edition on the machine where you install Exiland Assistant Server. This is certainly better in terms of security than storing data in someone else's cloud.
To ensure the safety of data in Personal and Enterprise versions built-in automatic database backup function. You can also use the universal backup program Exiland Backup. But this is a separate utility with a lot of useful features. You can learn more about automatic backups on the website of this utility.
Versions and editions of Exiland Assistant
The program is distributed in 3 editions:
- Free - free version of the organizer with a basic set of features
- Personal - single user version. As a trial version, it is proposed to use the Free version. To get a more functional version, you need buy an inexpensive license once and for all. By purchasing a license, you get a fully functional information manager, the right to priority technical support, project news.
- Enterprise - network organizer. Multiplayer option. For multiple users to work simultaneously, you need to install Exiland Assistant Server on any PC, which is free and comes with Enterprise, and install the Enterprise version on each user's PC.
About such programs as Exiland Assistant they say "made in the mind." In fact, it is more than just an electronic notebook, rather it is a multifunctional universal organizer in Russian, which I think is quite suitable for various fields of activity both in small business and at home.
Almost every person has their own notebook or diary, in which they write down various notes and plan any plans, routines, and so on. Of course, this is convenient, since it is simply impossible to fit all the cases in your head, and you can always check the entries in the organizer. Daily diaries, organizers and various reminders help us every day to congratulate our friends on their birthdays, remind us about paying utility bills, the Internet, etc.
In this regard, we decided to dedicate our publication to free organizers and reminders that are designed to make our lives easier. Such organizers will remind you of upcoming events and will be especially useful for those people who spend most of their time at the computer and have smartphones based on popular operating systems.
When compiling a selection of programs, we were based on the criteria: simplicity of the interface, convenience, mobility, versatility and a free license to use the program.
Exiland Assistant Free
Exiland Assistant Free is a powerful free organizer that allows you to manage your customer database, store business contacts, schedule tasks, and more. The best way save the contacts of your friends, relatives, colleagues or acquaintances in a convenient, structured way.
The main window of the program consists of 6 sections and groups in the form of a tree - on the left, as well as a list of records of the selected group - on the right. To the right is a panel with detailed information, which can be hidden if desired.
The program has a quick database search, which allows you to instantly find any information. The diary has a clear Russian-language interface and can be used in any field of activity, even for housewives. A nice addition is the ability to remind you of birthdays and important events, storing notes, recipes, program passwords and links to sites that you often use.
The free diary has a basic set of functions, which is enough in many cases, however, there are also paid versions of the organizer that significantly expand the functionality, for example, allow you to add your own fields, provide reliable data protection, allow you to perform e-mail mailings, and also work with several users. simultaneously with a single base. The network version of the organizer is used in organizations for calling customers, managing customer events (communication, meetings, reminders), as well as congratulations by e-mail, generating DocX documents according to a template (contracts, lists of people), etc.
The program is very simple and does not require installation on a PC.
Minimum PC requirements: any OS of the Windows family, 10 MB of disk space, screen size of 1024x600 or more.
Rainlendar
Rainlendar is another free organizer that also has a paid version with advanced features.
We can say that the program has no interface, Rainlendar is displayed on the desktop in the form of a calendar, the appearance of which can be changed to your liking using supported skins (they can be downloaded from the official website of the program). In addition to the calendar, other sections can be displayed on the desktop in the form of stickers, for example, one sticker for the holidays, the second for work, etc.
The functionality of the program includes: data backup, printing, search, custom alerts, calendar, contacts and much more.
The Rainlendar program has support for the Russian language, but in order for the interface to be in Russian, you need to download the crack from our website.
Evernote
Evernote is a free organizer program mentioned more than once on our site, for example, in the previous article about applications for Windows Phone.
It is an application for collecting all kinds of information in one place. You can add text, handwriting, voice notes, images, individual web site pages, and more to the notes you create. Only a lazy person does not use this program today.
The program interface in Russian is simple and convenient. The stored information in this virtual organizer can be structured as you wish.
Evernote can be installed both on a computer and on a smartphone or tablet. The application allows you to synchronize data between these devices, which only significantly increases the convenience of working with this program.
In addition to the free organizers presented above, there are still a lot of such useful programs for computers that have not been updated by developers for a long time, but which have pretty good functionality.
success pack
Success Pack - has a user-friendly interface in Russian. All existing categories are presented as beautiful icons located on a small panel.
Notes in the program are made in the form of stickers, each date has its own note. In Success Pack, you can create a daily schedule, reminders, save the addresses of the sites you need, add contacts, and much more.
The program has many settings for working with each tool.
You can download Success Pack for free from our software catalog.
In addition to applications for computers and mobile devices, there are also online organizer services that can be accessed from anywhere and from any device with Internet access. Such services can remind you of upcoming tasks using SMS messages, letters to email or even cell phone calls. In general, online organizer services have the same functionality as stationary applications. But we will talk about them another time.
In conclusion, I would like to say that planning cases and tasks is not a bad thing and allows you to cope with a large number of tasks, correctly optimizing the time for their implementation.
Today's article discusses best programs capable of replacing notebooks in the 21st century. They can work on both personal computers and smartphones. Programs are used as a simple replacement for a regular notepad, some become full-fledged organizers.
Relevance
Today, computers replace people a lot. Most of the simple things that used to be done manually can now be done on these devices. And the notebook is no exception.
This program, which is a notebook, is quite common. This application provided by Microsoft is already installed by default in Windows versions 7 and 8. However, when using an earlier operating system, OneNote is offered for download from the official Microsoft resource for free. The electronic notebook allows you to create and organize entries. Moreover, the first means writing and drawing with a stylus or a finger. Thus, OneNote works on both Windows and Windows Mobile, as well as for Android, iPhone, iPad.
Mars Notebook
The advantages of programs that are used as a sheet of paper that has turned up under the arm are the ability to sort all the information. The Mars Notebook, designed for the computer, is able to easily cope with the demands placed on it regarding data storage. The program is paid, but Russian-speaking users on the official website will be able to register it for free. After the first start, you should create a database where the records will be located. Among the advantages of this approach is the fact that for different types of notes it is possible to develop different databases, the number of which is not limited. The program has a user-friendly interface. On the right are the entries themselves, and on the left you can see the sections and items in a tree structure. Notes are simple (text) and extended. Thus, you can add:
Images;
music;
video and other files.
In this case, there are a large number of settings, as well as peculiar chips, presented in the form of a calculator, calendar, and more. Thus, this program is considered advanced. Mars Notebook functions only on the operating Windows system. As for Android, the developers offer an alternative similar to the tree structure and functions.
This program is ideal for those who are looking for something simple. It lacks many of the add-ons found in the Mars Notebook discussed above. True, not every user likes it. Some of them simply do not want to deal with the many settings and features that are offered to them. In this case, Notepad++ is just perfect. The program is similar to an extended version of an ordinary notepad. For example, you can find the function of most tabs. Both multitasking and text scalability are supported. Thanks to various plugins, it is possible to work with different encodings. The program has ample opportunities, as well as high speed. It is also worth noting its low weight and operational installation. Not only that, it is also offered completely free of charge. You can use it not only on a computer, but also on a smartphone.
Exiland Assistant
This application consists of a whole organizer, is a complex structure, which is expressed in a user-friendly interface. This program is suitable for those who like a thorough approach to any business. The database here is brought to the ideal. The program allows you to manage the user's personal information. It will become a real salvation for business people. It is worth noting that it was designed for them. There are three versions of this program:
Free;
single user;
a network organizer designed for the work of a large number of users at the same time.
As for the latest version, it is even used by small organizations to store databases of their own personnel. And this is not surprising. In addition to many useful features and functions, the program is equipped with good data protection, including backup. True, for Android it is not available as an application. However, synchronization with Microsoft Outlook is provided, which is the official software available on Google Play. This means that you can use the Exiland Assistant installed on your computer whenever you want. At the same time, it is possible to save the information in Outlook, and then import it into the Assistant.
This article examines the best programs that replace notebooks in the electronic 21st century. They work on both PCs and smartphones. Some of them will be used as a simple replacement for a regular notebook, while others will become full-fledged organizers.
Relevance
At present, the PC replaces a lot for people. Those simple things that were done by hand can now be done on a computer. The notebook is no exception. Why rely on the safety of paper when a notebook for a computer is guaranteed to leave everything in its memory in its original form? It's time to take advantage of the benefits of civilization in this case.
OneNote
Almost the most famous program, a notebook for a computer, is OneNote (literal translation - "one entry"). This is an application from Microsoft, which is even installed by default in the latest (8 and 10) versions of Windows. But even if the user has an earlier OS or for some reason OneNote has been removed from the computer, it is offered for free download from the official Microsoft website or in the "App Store".
Mars Notebook
The advantage of programs that can be used like a piece of paper tucked under your arm is that in the end, all that mountain of information recorded in scraps can be sorted, because these will be files of the same extension, and not scraps of notebook pages or notepads with incomprehensible notes by different pens.
Notebook for the computer Mars Notebook successfully copes with the duties assigned to it to store information. In fact, it is paid, but Russian-speaking users on the official website can register it for free. At the first start, you need to create a database in which records will be created. The advantage of this approach is that for different type notes, you can make different databases, besides, if several people use the program, each should also have its own "corner". The number of such bases is not limited.
Mars Notebook has a convenient interface: the entries are on the right side, and on the left are the sections and items in the tree structure to which these entries belong.
Notes can be either simple (text) or extended. This means that it is possible to add pictures, music, videos and other files. There are also a lot of settings and peculiar chips in the form of a calculator, calendar and other things. No wonder this program is called advanced.
Mars Notebook is a notebook for a computer, that is, it only works on Windows. For Android, alternative applications have been made by various developers with a similar tree structure and similar functions.
Notepad++
Notepad++ is ideal for those who are looking for something simple. Notebook-program with a bunch of additional "goodies" as in Mars Notebook, discussed above, this is, of course, interesting, but not everyone agrees to deal with the many settings and functions it offers. This is where Notepad++ comes to the rescue. This notebook for a computer is similar to an extended version of a regular notepad. For example, the function of many tabs has been added (as you know, in the program that is installed on each PC by default, it is not possible to open several documents at once).
Not only multitasking is supported (which, by the way, is remembered by the program and can be reproduced later), but also text scalability, and various plugins allow you to work with different encodings. With all the features and excellent speed, "Notepad ++" also weighs quite a bit and installs very quickly. Moreover, the program is free.
Available "Notepad ++" both on a computer and on a smartphone. This is also a notebook for Android, which, like many other software, can be downloaded on GooglePlay by simply entering the name in the search.
Exiland Assistant
Exiland Assistant packs an entire organizer into itself, presenting a complex structure expressed in a user-friendly interface. The Exiland Assistant notebook program for the computer is suitable for those who like to approach things thoroughly. If in "Mars Notebook" the idea of a database is implemented as a useful feature, then here it is brought to the ideal.
Exiland Assistant allows you to fully manage your personal data. It becomes a salvation for business people, for whom, in fact, it was created. There are three versions of this program - free, single user and a whole network organizer for many users to work at the same time. The latter is sometimes even chosen by small companies to store databases of their employees. Still, in addition to a lot of useful features and functions, Exiland Assistant has good data protection, which includes backup.
Sorry, this notebook for Android is not available as an app. But it has synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, and this official software is available on Google Play, which allows you to use Exiland Assistant installed on your PC at any time, saving information to Outlook and then importing it to Assistant.
