Complete personal assistant
SOHO Organizer (formerly known as SOHO Personal Organizer) is what you could call a Swiss Army Knife of productivity software.
It combines a calendar, address book, word processor, project manager, memo taker, telephone dialer and alarm clock all rolled into one easy-to-use package. There is always a danger of combining so many elements in one package because invariably, some will be better than others but SOHO Organizer manages to do quite a good job on all counts. What is undeniable though is that SOHO Organizer has been directly inspired by Address Book and in some areas, looks uncannily like it.
You can import and export info from other applications into SOHO Organizer and sync everything with mobile devices. There is some confusion though in how everything integrates - it's sometimes hard to switch between the various components and some parts, such as the journal, are too basic to worth bothering with.
If you want to bring all your organizational tasks under one umbrella then SOHO Organizer could be the all-in-one solution you were looking for - it's certainly more powerful than Address Book.
Added Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility Added auto-completion for attendee field in CalDAV accounts (uses Personal database) Added feature to auto-create Journal folder for user if it has been deleted Optimized calendar subscription updates Changed importing of iCalendar files so that the software no longer ask for its encoding and uses UTF-8 as the iCalendar spec specifies Fixed problem opening Smart Group editor when no groups exist in database
Changes
Added Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility Added auto-completion for attendee field in CalDAV accounts (uses Personal database) Added feature to auto-create Journal folder for user if it has been deleted Optimized calendar subscription updates Changed importing of iCalendar files so that the software no longer ask for its encoding and uses UTF-8 as the iCalendar spec specifies Fixed problem opening Smart Group editor when no groups exist in database
User reviews about SOHO Organizer
by Anonymous
Some good ideas, crappy implementation. No support..
1. It is not able to sync groups with either Apple Address Book or with Google Contacts. (It was able to pull contacts in from Google, but not existing groups, nor was it able to push groups back.
2. It is not able to view existing email as a thread.
3. It cannot access gmail labels at all. If a message has 3 labels, it shows up as 3 emails to/from that contact.
4. Lots of spinning beachballs waiting for it to catch up.
5. Inconsistent drag and drop behaviour. 6. Doesn't pick up dates from the email, but instead the file date of the local copy.
7. Drops contacts from groups.
8. Rearranges groups.
9. If you merge two records, it deletes the old records, and you lose all groups.
10. You cannot move a contact from one group to another, you have to add it to the one, and delete.
11. You can sync only up to every half hour or manually. No option for once a day.
12. You cannot change the sort order for contacts. E.g. sort by last contact date. Sort by number of contacts.
13. You cannot change the lists of relationships.
14. You cannot have multiple tag lists.
15. Support is terrible. I have 3 trouble tickets in and 12 Suggestions+problems on their forum for SoHo Organizer. Have not received a reply on any of them.
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